Figbridge

Figma ↔ code, in both directions. Free, open source, local, and built for the community.

Figbridge is a Figma plugin + local MCP server. Open the plugin on any file, toggle the Live bridge, and any MCP-capable agent (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Continue, Cline…) can read screens, tokens, and components, import a whole URL into Figma, audit the imported design, diff it back against the source, and emit a patch for the source repo — over 127.0.0.1.

┌──────────┐   postMessage   ┌──────────┐   HTTP + SSE    ┌───────────────┐     stdio     ┌──────────────┐
│  Figma   │ ──────────────▶ │  Plugin  │ ──────────────▶ │  MCP Server   │ ◀──────────── │  AI agent    │
│  Desktop │                  │   UI     │   :7331/push    │  (localhost)  │   tools/call  │  (Claude …)  │
└──────────┘                  └──────────┘                 └───────────────┘               └──────────────┘

Why

Figbridge is built for the community path: free, open source, local, and useful from website capture all the way back to source patches.

Figbridge:

• Free. MIT. Runs entirely on your machine.

• No account, no token. Uses your existing Figma desktop session.

• 48 MCP tools. Read, catalog, write-back, lint, ship an agent handoff bundle, import a live URL into Figma, audit the imported design across 5 dimensions, round-trip changes back to a source repo as a patch, and run a closed visual-diff loop that brings a running app into line with its mockup.

• Import diagnostics before you wait. preflight_import flags bot pages, deep DOM, low-res images, SVG-heavy pages, and downloadable font assets before a full import.

• Hybrid fallback for hard pages. import_url({ hybridSnapshot: true }) can place a full-page screenshot reference under editable layers for video-heavy or generated sites where pixel fidelity matters.

• Chrome/Edge current-tab capture. Load chrome-extension/ unpacked to send visible viewports, full pages, selected elements, authenticated tabs, localhost, or staging pages directly to the local bridge.

• Offline agent bundle. get_agent_bundle produces a zip (hierarchy · tokens · components · AGENTS.md · CHANGES.md) an agent can ship from without a live MCP connection.

• Deterministic. No LLM rewrites. What you select is what you get.

• Live. Toggle "Live bridge" and every selection change auto-pushes; agents pull the current selection instantly.

Related MCP server: figmad-mcp

Install — ~3 minutes

The plugin is not in Figma Community yet, so you clone the repo to get it. The MCP server comes from npm.

# 1. Get the Figma plugin (clone the repo)
git clone https://github.com/rudraptpsingh/figbridge

# 2. Patch Claude Desktop's MCP config
npx figbridge-mcp init

Then:

1. Quit and reopen Claude Desktop — it only reads MCP config at launch.

2. In Figma: Plugins → Development → Import plugin from manifest… → pick the plugin/manifest.json from the clone above. (One-time.)

3. Run the Figbridge plugin on any frame, toggle Live bridge on. A green dot in the plugin header = connected to the local bridge. The footer shows the port.

4. In Claude: "What tools does figbridge expose?" — you should see 40+.

For any other MCP client (Cursor, Cline, VS Code, …), point it at the same binary: npx figbridge-mcp.

Via the MCP registry

Figbridge is also listed on the official Model Context Protocol registry as io.github.rudraptpsingh/figbridge. Clients that support the registry (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) can discover and install it without hand-editing config.

Troubleshooting

If Claude Desktop shows "Server disconnected" or port 7331 gets stuck, run:

npx figbridge-mcp doctor

It reaps orphan figbridge-mcp processes and reports which ports are alive. The bridge auto-falls-back to 7332..7340 if 7331 is held, and the plugin auto-probes the same range — so "port in use" won't block you. FIGBRIDGE_PORT=NNNN overrides the preferred starting port.

For long local agent sessions that drive Figma through POST /command, run a persistent bridge:

npx figbridge-mcp bridge

This starts only the local HTTP+SSE bridge and keeps it alive after stdin closes. Use this when a desktop/terminal tool starts short-lived commands but you want the Figma plugin connection to remain stable across multiple agent actions.

Updating

init writes a config that runs npx -y figbridge-mcp@latest, so every Claude Desktop launch pulls the current version — no action needed after a new release.

If you installed an older version (≤ 0.1.1) that baked an absolute path into your config, run this once to self-heal:

npx figbridge-mcp@latest update

Use npx figbridge-mcp init --pin if you'd rather lock to the currently installed copy (no auto-updates). npx figbridge-mcp --version prints the installed version.

MCP tools

Read (8) — get_current_selection · get_last_export · list_history · get_tokens · bridge_status · diff_since · list_pages · list_frames

Catalog (8) — list_screens · list_components · describe_screen · export_app_spec · export_all_pages · list_assets · select_node · export_node

Act & Handoff (5) — get_agent_bundle · clone_screen · recolor · apply_tokens · lint_ds

Browser (11) — preflight_import (risk check before import, including font download URLs), import_url (live URL → Figma frame; optional hybridSnapshot screenshot reference), import_responsive_set (desktop / tablet / mobile and optional light / dark theme captures), import_url_batch (bulk URL imports), screenshot_url, probe_url, fingerprint_url, audit_interactions (hover / focus discovery), verify_text_fidelity, measure_fidelity, audit_regression (baseline URL vs candidate URL frontend/UI regression audit)

Pillar 1 — Round-trip editing (2) — diff_to_source (per-text-node field diff between imported frame and live source) · generate_patch (turn the diff into a minimal HTML/JSX/etc patch against a source dir; style swaps get structured CSS-file hints)

Pillar 2 — Design intelligence audits (5) — audit_palette · audit_typography · audit_a11y (WCAG 2.x contrast, landmarks, alt text) · audit_whitespace (padding/gap rhythm, 4/8-grid conformance) · audit_mobile (multi-viewport responsive: horizontal scroll, overflow-x, sub-44px touch targets, sub-12px text)

Pillar 3 — Match the mockup (3) — match_mockup (closed render → diff → refine loop: renders a running app and its target mockup, returns per-viewport visual scores plus a prioritized punch-list of copy / color / typography / spacing / elevation / icon / structure differences, a design-language style fingerprint, and — with sourceDir — the source file to edit for each item) · diff_specs (fast structured field-level diff between two rendered URLs) · map_components (index an app's source tree — data-testid / component → file, plus design tokens — so diffs name the file to change and the token a literal should become)

All audits are pure deterministic measurement — no model calls. They return numeric scores and structured issue lists ready to feed back into a planning loop. audit_regression can be used as a local/CI gate before shipping a UI change: it compares screenshots, missing visible text, responsive issue deltas, and CSS-feature drift across desktop/tablet/mobile.

Chrome current-tab capture

The chrome-extension/ folder contains an unpacked MV3 extension for authenticated pages:

1. Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, and load the chrome-extension/ folder unpacked.

2. Start Figbridge MCP and open the Figbridge Figma plugin with Live bridge enabled.

3. Use the extension popup to send the visible viewport, opt into full-page DOM capture, pick a page element, or include a viewport screenshot reference beneath editable layers.

Browser captures can group each website or project into its own Figma page, for example Chrome Capture - Raycast or Chrome Capture - Localhost, so separate projects stay navigable inside one open Figma file.

The extension only posts to 127.0.0.1:7331..7340; it does not send page data to a cloud service.

The agent handoff bundle

get_agent_bundle is the differentiator. One call returns a zip:

DESIGN.md          palette · rhythm · do/don't
hierarchy.md       indented tree with deterministic slugs
components.json    variants + props schema
tokens.json        DTCG-shaped
tokens.css         :root + per-mode blocks
flow.mmd           Figma prototype → Mermaid graph
responsive.md      mobile/tablet/desktop merged
ISSUES.md          a11y audit the agent shouldn't repeat
CHANGES.md         surgical diff since last bundle
AGENTS.md          "when you see slug X, import Y"
manifest.json      sha-256 + token counts, stable order for prompt cache
screenshots/       1:1 paired with hierarchy slugs

Three budget tiers (small 8k / medium 32k / large 128k tokens). Slugs are deterministic — rename a node, the slug stays — so CHANGES.md is a real surgical diff instead of a whole-file retranslation.

The closed loop: URL → Figma → diff → patch

Figbridge is the first MCP-native tool that closes the loop in both directions.

                 import_url                      diff_to_source
   ┌──────────┐  ──────────▶  ┌──────────┐  ──────────▶  ┌──────────┐
   │  Source  │                │  Figma   │                │  changes │
   │  (URL,   │                │  frame   │                │   list   │
   │   repo)  │ ◀──────────    │ (edited) │                └────┬─────┘
   └──────────┘  generate_patch└──────────┘                     │
                                                                ▼
                                                         apply or review

1. import_url pulls a live URL into a Figma page (multi-page aware via pageName; section-aware via rootSelector).

2. Audit the result with the five Pillar 2 tools to find palette drift, contrast failures, off-grid spacing, mobile breakage. Use audit_regression to compare production/staging against a local candidate and catch UI/UX regressions before updating Figma or shipping code.

3. The designer edits the frame in Figma.

4. diff_to_source reports exactly which text-node fields diverged from the source URL — characters / fontSize / fontFamily / color / presence.

5. generate_patch turns the diff into a minimal before/after edit list against a local source directory. Style swaps get structured hints (token vs literal) instead of blind text replacements.

No LLM rewrites in the loop. Every step is deterministic and idempotent.

Output formats

Architecture

• Plugin main thread (plugin/code.js) — reads the node tree, computes HTML/CSS/Tailwind/tokens deterministically. ES2017-safe (no spread / ?? / ?.) for the Figma sandbox.

• Plugin UI (plugin/ui.html) — cream/ink/rust theme, Figma-native layer navigator, inline Commands panel with a Run button per tool.

• MCP server (mcp/src/) — stdio MCP via @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, sibling HTTP + SSE server on :7331 for plugin pushes and bidirectional commands. State in-memory + persisted to ~/.figbridge/last.json.

What Figbridge does not do

• No reach into Figma without the desktop app + plugin open. No REST API, no PAT.

• No AI code rewrites. It's a deterministic tree walker.

• No publishing to Figma or to the cloud.

Development

cd mcp && npm install && npm test        # integration smoke test
node test-agent/run.js                   # 130 unit tests on the render pipeline
node test/scenarios.mjs                  # 54 real-world scenario checks
node test/real-figma.mjs                 # 43 checks against a parsed real .fig
node test/tools-all.mjs                  # 21-tool MCP surface + e2e
node --check plugin/code.js              # plugin syntax check

Links

• Landing page: https://rudraptpsingh.github.io/figbridge/

• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/figbridge-mcp

License

MIT © Rudra Pratap Singh