figma-library-variables

figma-library-variables is a skill for Claude Code from southleft/figma-console-mcp-skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (601 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for discovering and importing design tokens from shared Figma team libraries. Design tokens are reusable values such as brand colors and other design-system settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list variables in subscribed library collections, filter them by library or type, and import selected variables into the current Figma file.
Why use it?
It lets a Figma file reuse approved values from a subscribed library instead of recreating or copying them manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the figma-console-mcp-skills plugin — 23 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to list variables in subscribed library collections, filter them by library or type, and import selected variables into the current Figma file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/southleft/figma-console-mcp-skills/figma-library-variables
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 southleft/figma-console-mcp-skills --skill figma-library-variables
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/southleft/figma-console-mcp-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install figma-console-mcp-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 601 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00105 $0.00601
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00060

Measured 12d ago against content hash f947c21a729d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figma-library-variables 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/import-library-variable.js, scripts/list-library-variables.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/figma-library-variables/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

figma-library-variables — discover & import team-library variables

Browse the variables published by libraries the current file subscribes to, then import the ones you need. Imported variables get a local id that behaves like any local variable (bind it, read it, reference it).

Skill boundaries

  • use_figma rules — load the official figma-use skill first; it is the full Figma Plugin API reference. Essentials these scripts rely on: plain JS with top-level await + return (no IIFE, no figma.closePlugin(); console.log is not returned), inputs inlined as const at the top of each script, colors in 0–1 range, load fonts before any text op, await figma.getNodeByIdAsync(...), and atomic errors (a failed script applies nothing — read the error, fix, retry).
  • Local (non-library) variables → figma-export-tokens, figma-manage-variables.

Workflow

  1. Discover. Run scripts/list-library-variables.js via use_figma (skillNames: "figma-library-variables"). Optionally set the LIBRARY_NAME / COLLECTION_NAME / TYPE filters. It returns each subscribed collection and the key of every variable in it.
  2. Import. Put the variable key(s) into scripts/import-library-variable.js and run it. It returns the new localId for each. Re-importing is idempotent (same local id).
  3. Use. Bind the imported variable to node properties or reference it from local semantic tokens (see figma-use / figma-manage-variables for binding).

Notes

  • Only subscribed libraries appear. If a collection is missing, enable the library in the file's library settings first (a manual Figma step).
  • getVariablesInLibraryCollectionAsync takes the collection key, not its id.
  • Library variables are read-only references to the source — edit values in the library file, not here.
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 35 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A f947c21a729d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

figma-library-variables is a skill published in the GitHub repository southleft/figma-console-mcp-skills (80 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 601 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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