Framelink MCP for Figma

by Framelink (Graham Lipsman) MCP server in Design workspaces & canvases

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Framelink MCP for Figma is an open-source MCP server, run locally with npx, that reads Figma files through the Figma REST API and returns simplified layout and style data and image assets to coding agents.

Best for Reading a Figma frame into a coding agent to build matching UI.

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Assessment. Two compact, typed tools return Figma layout and styles in a token-saving tree format and save image assets, with a read-only hint and a flag that removes the writing tool. There has been no release since 18 June 2026, issues and outside pull requests since July have gone unanswered, and telemetry is on by default.

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Access how an agent reaches and pays for it

Transport: stdio, Streamable HTTP
Auth: Token
Pricing: Free · Free · OSS
x402: No
Licence: MIT
Tools exposed: 2
Capabilities: design.files design.code design.components

Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases

Packages: npm figma-developer-mcp
MCP registry: io.github.GLips/Figma-Context-MCP
Source: github.com/GLips/Figma-Context-MCP
Docs: docs.framelink.ai
llms.txt: published
Last release: 2026-06-18
GitHub stars: 16k
npm / week: 162k

From our research 6 facts checked against the vendor's pages

Surface listed: The figma-developer-mcp package (0.13.2) and its source at github.com/GLips/Figma-Context-MCP, read from a shallow clone, the npm registry, docs.framelink.ai and www.framelink.ai on 6 November 2026. The package was not installed or run
Tools: get_figma_data (fileKey required, nodeId and depth optional) and download_figma_images (fileKey and a nodes list with nodeId and fileName, writing PNG, SVG or GIF into the image directory)
Output formats: tree (default, built for LLMs), yaml or json, set at startup with --format
Other interfaces: A local HTTP server on port 3333 at /mcp, and a fetch CLI command that prints simplified design data without a server
Telemetry: PostHog at us.i.posthog.com, one event per tool call with timing, response shape and errors, Figma credentials scrubbed. Off with --no-telemetry, FRAMELINK_TELEMETRY=off or DO_NOT_TRACK
Relation to Figma: A community server, not Figma's. Figma's own server is listed separately as figma-mcp

Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

Two tools with zod input schemas and regex checks on file keys, node IDs and file names
Compact tree output that deduplicates repeated styles and subtrees, with nodeId and depth to narrow a read
Uses a Figma personal access token that needs only file_content:read, or a per-request token in HTTP mode
MIT, in the official MCP registry under the maintainer's GitHub namespace, with a release-please changelog
Docs publish llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each page, including a full tool reference

Weaknesses

Last release 0.13.2 on 18 June 2026, and still below 1.0
The three open issues filed since May 2026 and seven outside pull requests since July have no reply
PostHog telemetry is on by default, the README doesn't mention it, and an open issue says error messages can carry file keys and node IDs
Read-only on Figma, so an agent cannot change a design through it
No privacy policy, terms or named company on framelink.ai

Before you call it notes for agents

Pass the node-id from the Figma link as nodeId so the call returns one frame, not the whole file
Leave depth unset unless the user asks, as the tool description says
Set --image-dir to the project folder in stdio mode, or --skip-image-downloads when the task only reads
Set FRAMELINK_TELEMETRY=off or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 in the server's env if the user's policy forbids usage reporting
On a 429 from Figma, wait and retry later; the limit is the user's Figma plan, not the server's

Who's behind it provenance 37/100

Legal entity namednot found0/20
Domain ageframelink.ai, registered 2025-03-22 (1 year)3/15
Endpoint on the vendor's domainframelink.ai15/15
Terms of servicenot found0/10
Privacy policynot found0/10
Status pagenot found0/10
Changelogpublished10/10
security.txtnot found0/10
People named1 named with their role, 1 with a public profile10/10
Support routehelp pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service none to read

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Privacy policy none to read

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No company is named on www.framelink.ai, whose footer reads only a copyright line. The repository, the npm package and the X account linked from the site belong to Graham Lipsman (GitHub GLips, npm glips, X glipsman).

No terms of service or privacy policy linked from www.framelink.ai or docs.framelink.ai.

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RDAP gives framelink.ai a registration date of 22 March 2025.

/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. SECURITY.md in the repository asks for private reports through GitHub security advisories, with acknowledgement within 48 hours.

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Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

Graham LipsmanCreator and maintainer of the Framelink MCP for Figma

Framelink on @glipsman GitHub

Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. www.framelink.ai names no company or person; its footer is a copyright line and it links the GitHub repository GLips/Figma-Context-MCP and the X account glipsman. The GitHub account GLips gives the name Graham Lipsman and links glipsman.com, whose projects list says of Framelink (2025) "Made an MCP server that sends Figma data to coding agents"; the npm package figma-developer-mcp has the single maintainer glips. No page calls him a founder, so he is listed as the creator and maintainer and not marked as a founder. No LinkedIn was linked from a first-hand page. Investors were looked for on the home page, the docs, the repository and glipsman.com on 6 November 2026; nothing mentions funding, a company or backers. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

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github GLips/Figma-Context-MCP v0.13.2, released 2026-06-18
npm figma-developer-mcp 0.13.2
GitHub stars 16k
npm downloads a week 162k
security.txt none · 1 hour ago
llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago

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raw.githubusercontent.com/GLips/Figma-Context-MCP/main/CHAN…	changelog	3 hours ago · 200	no change seen

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/framelink-figma-mcp.json

Notable

Two tools, get_figma_data (marked readOnlyHint) and download_figma_images (openWorldHint), with zod input schemas in src/mcp/tools source
--skip-image-downloads removes the only tool that writes, and --image-dir confines image writes to one directory source
Anonymous PostHog telemetry has been on by default since 10 April 2026 (0.10.0), one event per tool call, turned off with --no-telemetry, FRAMELINK_TELEMETRY=off or DO_NOT_TRACK source
Output defaults to a compact tree format since 0.13.0 on 18 June 2026, which deduplicates repeated styles and subtrees source
Published in the official MCP registry as io.github.GLips/Figma-Context-MCP, latest 0.13.2 source

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

Category	Weight this run	Score	Points
Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026	16%20	68	13.6
Read with the local-software lines, because the server runs on the user's machine and calls the Figma REST API. Installs from the official npm package figma-developer-mcp, with Node 20.20 or later stated in package.json (20). A CI workflow runs prettier, eslint, a type check and the vitest suite, but only on pull requests, and the five newest runs (outside pull requests from 22 August to 2 October) all failed, so passing on the default branch couldn't be confirmed (15). Eight open issues, the oldest open one a 429 rate-limit thread from November 2025 with 30 comments, and nothing open that reports a crash in the current release (18). Release-please changelog with semver tags and breaking defaults called out, such as the switch to `tree` output in 0.13.0 (15). Version 0.13.2, below 1.0 and not declared stable (0). 20 + 15 + 18 + 15 + 0 = 68.
Performancenot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026	13%16.2	87	14.1
Both tools have typed zod input schemas in src/mcp/tools, with regex checks on fileKey, nodeId and fileName (25). docs.framelink.ai serves llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each page (10). The tool reference explains what each tool returns and how the two chain through `imageDownloadArguments`, and the `depth` parameter says not to use it unless the user asks. The `get_figma_data` description itself is one line and says nothing about when not to call it (14 of 20). Required fields and patterns are typed, and `fileName` must end in .png, .svg or .gif, with no enum for output format at call time (13 of 15). Config and request examples in the docs, a documented `Error fetching file:` prefix and purpose-built 403 and 429 messages, but no list of error cases (10 of 15). Semver releases and a public changelog (15). 25 + 10 + 14 + 13 + 10 + 15 = 87.
Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026	13%16.2	83	13.5
Two compact tools (25). Output is sized by `nodeId` and `depth`, and the default `tree` format drops default values and auto-generated layer names and deduplicates repeated styles and subtrees. No pagination, which a single-file read rarely needs (16 of 20). Errors are written for a model to recover from, with Figma's 403 body surfaced and guidance for wrong node IDs from prototype, branch and FigJam links, per the 0.12.0 changelog (16 of 20). `get_figma_data` carries readOnlyHint and `download_figma_images` openWorldHint, with no destructiveHint on the tool that writes files and no note on overwriting (14 of 20). Only `fileKey` is required and one npx line starts it, but there is no SDK, which a two-tool local server doesn't need (12 of 15). 25 + 16 + 16 + 14 + 12 = 83.
Security & authchecked 6 November 2026	14%17.5	55	9.6
The credential is the user's own Figma token. Figma personal access tokens are scoped and revocable, and the docs say `file_content:read` is the one scope the server needs. OAuth tokens are accepted but not refreshed, and the token is passed in the client config's args or env, not a URL (25 of 30). The server only reads Figma. Its one write is image files, confined to `--image-dir`, and `--skip-image-downloads` removes that tool; the local HTTP mode has no authentication of its own and binds 127.0.0.1 by default (16 of 20). Layer names and text written by collaborators reach the model as they are, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). Logs go to the local console only, with no per-call audit record (3 of 15). SECURITY.md asks for private reports through GitHub security advisories with a 48-hour acknowledgement. No security.txt, bug bounty or certification (8 of 20). 25 + 16 + 3 + 3 + 8 = 55.
Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026	10%12.5	60	7.5
By the self-hosted rule. A free MIT package with nothing to buy (20 + 20 + 20), and no payment protocol (0). Figma API use falls under the user's own Figma plan. 60.
Task successnot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026	7%8.8	41	3.6
Last release 0.13.2 on 18 June 2026, 141 days before this check (10). No release in the 90 days since 8 August (0). The maintainer merged his own pull requests through June and closed four outside pull requests between July and September, but the three open issues filed since May have no reply and seven outside pull requests from July to October are open without one (8 of 25). In the official MCP registry under the GitHub-verified namespace io.github.GLips, with 0.13.2 as the latest entry (15). CI and tests exist, and the MCP SDK is pinned at 1.29.0 with current dependencies (8 of 10). 10 + 0 + 8 + 15 + 8 = 41.
Transparency & trusteditorial 57, provenance 37checked 6 November 2026	7%8.8	47	4.1
MIT licence in the repository and on npm (30). No privacy policy or terms on framelink.ai or the docs. Design data goes from Figma to the local model client, and the docs describe what telemetry sends, but there is no data statement to agree with (8 of 30). No deprecation policy. Breaking defaults are called out in the changelog (5 of 20). Telemetry to PostHog (us.i.posthog.com) has been on by default since 0.10.0 on 10 April 2026. The configuration page discloses it with three ways to opt out, while the README doesn't mention it, and an open issue of 16 April 2026 reports that `error_message` can include file keys and node IDs, which the source's redaction (credentials only) doesn't cover (14 of 20). 30 + 8 + 5 + 14 = 57.
Negative events	≤15	None recorded	0
Total			66.1 · B

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Graded 66.1 B methodology v0.7

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What we couldn't check

Whether CI passes on the default branch: the workflow runs only on pull requests and the latest runs were failing outside contributions.
Whether the maintainer still answers: no reply was found on issues opened since May 2026, while the repository's pushed_at is 27 October 2026.
The coming Framelink team product (early access on the home page) has no public docs or price.

Sources 10

repository (shallow clone): tools, telemetry, CI, SECURITY.md, CHANGELOG github.com · seen 2026-11-06
npm package metadata and release times registry.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
npm weekly downloads api.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06
configuration reference, including telemetry docs.framelink.ai · seen 2026-11-06
authentication docs docs.framelink.ai · seen 2026-11-06
MCP tools reference docs.framelink.ai · seen 2026-11-06
docs llms.txt docs.framelink.ai · seen 2026-11-06
home page framelink.ai · seen 2026-11-06
official MCP registry entry registry.modelcontextprotocol.io · seen 2026-11-06
issues, pull requests and CI runs api.github.com · seen 2026-11-06

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Pricing & changes

Free Free · OSS Free and MIT-licensed, run on your own machine. Calls go to the Figma REST API under the user's Figma plan and its rate limits. The site advertises a coming team product only as early access, with no price.

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Framelink_Figma_MCP": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "figma-developer-mcp",
        "--stdio"
      ],
      "command": "npx",
      "env": {
        "FIGMA_API_KEY": "YOUR-KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

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