Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedesignproject/agent-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/thedesignproject/agent-skills/figma-useWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedesignproject/agent-skills/figma-use)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedesignproject/agent-skills/figma-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thedesignproject/agent-skills/figma-use/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thedesignproject/agent-skills/figma-use"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thedesignproject/agent-skills/figma-use.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Prompt Injection · line 119 Subtle instructions detected that may alter agent decision-making or introduce hidden biases.Fix: Review content for implicit steering or bias. Ensure instructions are explicit and align with the skill's stated purpose.
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 | $0.00114 | $0.07783 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00057 | $0.03891 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00023 | $0.01557 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00778 |
Grade A, and why
figma-use 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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 438 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
use_figma — Figma Plugin API Skill
Use the use_figma tool to execute JavaScript in Figma files via the Plugin API. All detailed reference docs live in references/.
Always pass skillNames: "figma-use" when calling use_figma. This is a logging parameter used to track skill usage — it does not affect execution.
If Figma MCP tools appear as deferred tools, batch-load all their schemas in a single ToolSearch call using the select: syntax — e.g. ToolSearch query="select:use_figma,get_screenshot,get_metadata,create_new_file". One round trip beats six.
If the task involves building or updating a full page, screen, or multi-section layout in Figma from code, also load figma-generate-design. It provides the workflow for discovering design system components via search_design_system, importing them, and assembling screens incrementally. Both skills work together: this one for the API rules, that one for the screen-building workflow.
If the task involves creating or building a component in Figma (even a single component), also load figma-generate-library. It provides the component creation workflow — variable foundations, variant sets, design token bindings — that figma-use alone doesn't cover.
Before anything, load plugin-api-standalone.index.md to understand what is possible. When you are asked to write plugin API code, use this context to grep plugin-api-standalone.d.ts for relevant types, methods, and properties. This is the definitive source of truth for the API surface. It is a large typings file, so do not load it all at once, grep for relevant sections as needed.
IMPORTANT: Whenever you work with design systems, start with working-with-design-systems/wwds.md to understand the key concepts, processes, and guidelines for working with design systems in Figma. Then load the more specific references for components, variables, text styles, and effect styles as needed.
What ships with it
20 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.
- references/api-reference.md 16 KB
- references/common-patterns.md 14 KB
- references/component-patterns.md 23 KB
- references/effect-style-patterns.md 3.1 KB
- references/gotchas.md 50 KB
- references/plugin-api-patterns.md 14 KB
- references/plugin-api-standalone.d.ts 445 KB runs code
- references/plugin-api-standalone.index.md 29 KB
- references/text-style-patterns.md 6.8 KB
- references/validation-and-recovery.md 4.4 KB
- references/variable-patterns.md 14 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-components--creating.md 2.1 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-components--using.md 2.0 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-components.md 4.0 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-effect-styles.md 3.2 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-text-styles.md 5.0 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-variables--creating.md 1.5 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-variables--using.md 1.9 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds-variables.md 5.1 KB
- references/working-with-design-systems/wwds.md 5.1 KB
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 438 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 511a7b00228b
figma-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedesignproject/agent-skills (86 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 7,783 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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