What is figma-plugin-api?

Instructions and code patterns for using the Figma Plugin API through figma_exec, which runs code inside the Figma plugin environment.

Use them to find frames, inspect selected objects, read node properties, and export a selected node as a PNG.

They explain the API's access limits and show safe ways to inspect Figma nodes and export images.

figma-plugin-api — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by shinjiyu

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add shinjiyu/figma_mcp --skill figma-plugin-api

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shinjiyu/figma_mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 395 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00034	$0.00395
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00158
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00079
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00040

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 16621b335cf1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figma-plugin-api scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/figma-plugin-api/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

figma_exec (Plugin API)

Code runs in the plugin main thread with global figma.

Do

return plain objects / arrays / numbers / strings
await figma.getNodeByIdAsync(id) under documentAccess: dynamic-page
Map nodes yourself:

return figma.currentPage.selection.map((n) => ({
  id: n.id,
  name: n.name,
  type: n.type,
  x: n.x,
  y: n.y,
  width: n.width,
  height: n.height,
}));

Don't

Rely on REST / Personal Access Tokens (not used by this MCP)
Return giant binary / image bytes unless asked
Expect the plugin panel to stay connected if the user closed it

Useful snippets

Find frames by name

const hits = figma.currentPage.findAll(
  (n) => n.type === "FRAME" && n.name.includes("主界面")
);
return hits.map((n) => ({
  id: n.id,
  name: n.name,
  w: n.width,
  h: n.height,
}));

Export PNG (base64) for one node

const node = figma.currentPage.selection[0];
if (!node) return { ok: false, error: "no selection" };
const bytes = await node.exportAsync({ format: "PNG", constraint: { type: "SCALE", value: 1 } });
// Return length only by default — full base64 can be huge.
return { id: node.id, name: node.name, byteLength: bytes.byteLength };

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 16621b335cf1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

figma-plugin-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository shinjiyu/figma_mcp (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 395 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Design and UX

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