What is figma-describe?

A tool that reads a Figma design link and describes the design as a text tree of interface layers and their structure. Figma is a collaborative tool for designing user interfaces.

Use it to analyze a Figma file, identify its UI hierarchy, extract design structure, and capture a screenshot when the connected tools support one.

It turns a visual design file into a framework-neutral description that developers can inspect and use for implementation. It requires a connected Figma service with a valid access token.

figma-describe — Skill for Claude Code by SSBun

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 SSBun/csl-agent-kit --skill figma-describe

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SSBun/csl-agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install csl, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent, 10 hooks.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 438 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	$0.00046	$0.00438
Opus 5	$0.00023	$0.00219
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.00088
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00044

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4e20ac4e6872, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

figma-describe 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 8d 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/domain/figma-describe/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Parse a Figma design URL and output a framework-agnostic tree description of the UI layer architecture.

Prerequisites

A Figma MCP server must be connected with a valid token. If no Figma MCP tools are available, tell the user to enable one and stop.

Usage

/figma-describe <figma-url> or /csl:figma-describe <figma-url>.

Workflow

Parse the URL. Extract the file key from /design/ or /file/, and extract node-id. Normalize 1-2 to 1:2 if the MCP schema requires colons.
Inspect available Figma MCP tools when schema introspection exists. Prefer official Figma tools over alternate tools.
Fetch design data with get_design_context(fileKey, nodeId) when available. Use get_metadata only when context is truncated.
If only an alternate tool such as get_figma_data exists, use it and avoid deeper traversal unless the user asks.
Capture a screenshot when a screenshot tool exists. Tree output is still required when screenshots are unavailable.
Transform fetched data into the output format in references/tree-output-format.md.

Tool Preference

Official: get_design_context, get_metadata, get_screenshot.
Alternate: get_figma_data; use image download tools only when image assets are needed.

If neither family exists, report which MCP servers or static tools are visible and ask the user to fix configuration.

Rules

Output design description only. No CSS, Swift, Flutter, or framework code.
Extract only what Figma provides. Do not invent properties.
Include meaningful sibling spatial relationships.
Collapse repeated identical children.
Summarize deep nesting.
Skip default values such as opacity:1 or border:0.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

references/tree-output-format.md 1.4 KB

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.

8d ago First seen · 40 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 4e20ac4e6872

Subscribe to this mod's changes

figma-describe is a skill published in the GitHub repository SSBun/csl-agent-kit (10 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 438 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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