figma-mcp-express MCP Server

Compact Figma MCP with validated batch ops through a local plugin bridge.

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Published as figma-mcp-express on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

13 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 10.

Most discussed

get_design_context ignores nodeId parameter — returns current selection instead

Symptom

When get_design_context is called with a nodeId parameter specifying a target node, it returns the design context for the current Figma selection instead of the specified node.

Impact

Agents querying a specific component by ID receive data for whatever is currently selected in Figma, leading to incorrect structural reads and misidentified properties. Caused multiple debugging cycles in PickleHub build sessions.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Have node A selected in Figma
2. Call

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 2 comments

find_replace_text ignores nodeId scope — traverses entire page and component tree

Symptom

find_replace_text is called with a nodeId parameter to scope the replacement to a specific frame, but the implementation traverses the entire page and component tree, hitting unintended nodes.

Impact

In 2 separate production builds (PickleHub mobile app), this corrupted tab bar labels globally — replacing text in the target frame also replaced the same string in the master component and every other instance on the page. Required manual batch revert to restore.

Steps to R

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 2 comments

import_component_by_key (and batch writes) can hang with no timeout/cancellation — wedges the whole channel and collateral-kills concurrent agents

Summary

import_component_by_key (and other plugin-side write ops) can hang indefinitely with no timeout, no progress signal, and no cancellation. Because each channel is a single serialized queue, a hung import head-of-line-blocks every queued op on that channel, and if the plugin actually disconnects mid-import it takes down every agent sharing that channel (one shared single-thread = one failure domain).

Observed (real incident)

• Building a 14-screen mobile app, 3–4 con

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 2 comments

Expose mainComponentId on instance reads (and list orphaned local masters) — recovery path for file-local component reuse

Problem

Reusing a file-local, unpublished component (a registered organism like a custom BottomTabBar) across the same file is unreliable:

• create_instance requires componentId (the master NODE id) — componentKey alone errors missing required param "componentId".
• The master node id is not exposed by any read: get_node/get_nodes_info on an instance return only mainComponent:{key,name,remote:false} (no id); get_local_components (per-page + all pages) does not list

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 2 comments

save_screenshots: surface a per-item error reason instead of a silent {succeeded:0,total:0}

Problem

During a multi-agent build session, save_screenshots repeatedly returned {succeeded:0, total:0} (or failed:0 with nothing written) without an error message, across multiple agents/frames on the same channel. Agents had to fall back to the get_screenshot batch op (base64) to see their work.

Impact

• Builders/reviewers silently get no image file; self-eval + visual verification break.
• No signal to distinguish "path write failed" from "node not found" from "plugin busy"

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

batch text values: $+digit collides with op-ref syntax (e.g. "$12.2B" parsed as ref to op #12)

Inside a batch(ops:[...]) call, a text value containing $ immediately followed by digits — e.g. set_text with "$12.2B" or create_text "$2.5B revenue" — is parsed by the op-ref resolver as a reference to another op in the batch ($12 → "ref points to op #12"), and the build fails.

Impact

Any dollar-denominated copy in a batch fails. This is common in finance/IR/pricing decks. The only stopgap found is inserting a zero-width space (U+200B) between $ and the first digit so the ad

Read the thread · 2026-06-26 · open · 0 comments

A plugin disconnect on a shared channel is a single failure domain — one op's drop kills every concurrent agent (failure isolation + reconnect resilience)

Summary

A channel is backed by a single plugin WebSocket on one shared thread, so it is one failure domain: when the plugin disconnects mid-op (e.g. a hung import_component_by_key, a plugin crash, a transient socket drop), every agent sharing that channel dies — including agents that were only reading and had nothing to do with the failing op. There is no per-request isolation and no in-flight survival across a reconnect.

This is the resilience/blast-radius half of #31. #31 asks

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · open · 1 comment

Can't override a component INSTANCE's auto-layout (alignment/padding) — set_auto_layout rejects instances ('not a FRAME')

Problem

set_auto_layout errors Node <id> is not a FRAME when the target is an INSTANCE. So you cannot override a component instance's auto-layout properties — primaryAxisAlignItems, counterAxisAlignItems, padding, itemSpacing — even though the Figma API allows these overrides on instances.

Concrete impact

A kit Solid Button instance bottom-aligns its label (counterAxisAlignItems=MAX in the master), so the text renders a few px below the button's vertical center. The natural fix

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 1 comment

Reads don't surface fill/paint variable bindings — token-binding unverifiable (only effects show boundVariables)

Problem

No read tool surfaces a fill/paint variable binding. A variable-bound fill and a hand-typed raw hex of the same value are byte-identical in every read output, so there's no way to verify whether an authored fill is bound to a design token.

• get_node / get_nodes_info flatten every fill to a resolved hex array (fills:["#ffffff"]), no boundVariables.
• get_design_context at every detail (compact/full/codegen) serializes fills only as resolved-hex dedup aliases i

Read the thread · 2026-06-17 · closed · 1 comment

Version-aware leader election: prevent a stale binary from leading port 1994

Background

figma-mcp-express elects a single leader on port 1994; other instances become followers that forward RPCs to the leader (internal/election.go, internal/leader.go, internal/node.go). When several instances of different versions run concurrently (mixed dev/published binaries, leftover processes from other sessions, the CC plugin's npx server racing a local build), whichever binds the port first wins — even if it's an older binary.

A follower then forwards a

Read the thread · 2026-06-16 · closed · 0 comments

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