Skills for Figma

A collection of open-source agent skills for the native Figma MCP server. Each skill teaches an agent (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Copilot) to perform a focused design-systems task in Figma — exporting and importing design tokens, analyzing component sets, linting for WCAG and design-system compliance, auditing accessibility, building Slides and FigJam content, and more.

Every skill runs through the Figma MCP’s use_figma tool (Plugin API execution) and requires no plan-gated APIs — token reads use the Plugin API, so they work on any Figma plan.

These skills are a Figma-MCP-focused subset of southleft/figma-console-mcp-skills, repackaged here with community-friendly names. The full collection (including REST-API-based version history, changelog, blame, and comments skills) lives in that repository.

Requirements

• An agent host with the Figma MCP server connected (e.g. Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini).
• The official figma-use skill, which teaches the use_figma Plugin API conventions. Every skill here loads it first.

Install

npx — any agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, …)

npx skills add southleft/skills-for-figma          # install all skills
npx skills add southleft/skills-for-figma --list   # preview without installing
npx skills add southleft/skills-for-figma --skill export-tokens-figma   # just one

Powered by the skills CLI — it detects your agent and drops each skill into the right directory.

Claude Code plugin (one command)

/plugin marketplace add southleft/skills-for-figma
/plugin install skills-for-figma@skills-for-figma

Manual (any host)

git clone https://github.com/southleft/skills-for-figma.git
cd skills-for-figma
cp -R skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

For other hosts, drop the folders from skills/ into that tool’s skills directory (e.g. .codex/skills/, .gemini/skills/). Once installed, an agent auto-selects a skill from your request, or you can invoke one explicitly with /skill-name.

Skills

Tokens & variables

• export-tokens-figma — Export Figma variables to DTCG, CSS custom properties, Tailwind, SCSS, TypeScript, JSON, Style Dictionary, or Tokens Studio, with multi-mode and alias resolution.
• import-tokens-figma — Create and update Figma variables from DTCG token files, with multi-mode values, alias resolution, and non-destructive in-place matching.
• setup-design-tokens-figma — Bootstrap a complete token system (a collection, its modes, and all variables with per-mode values) in one atomic operation.
• manage-variables-figma — Create, update, rename, and delete variables, collections, and modes, including batch create/update.