Figma Generate Design
Use this skill alongside figma-use when the task involves translating an application...
Install
npx skills add figma/mcp-server-guide --skill figma-generate-design -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- figma/mcp-server-guide2.1k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 7d ago
- License
- See repository
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Use this skill alongside figma-use when the task involves translating an application page, view, or multi-section layout into Figma. Triggers: 'write to Figma', 'create in Figma from code', 'push page to Figma', 'take this app/page and build it in Figma', 'create a screen', 'build a landing page in Figma', 'update the Figma screen to match code', 'convert this modal/dialog/drawer/panel to Figma'. This is the preferred workflow skill whenever the user wants to build or update a full page, modal, dialog, drawer, sidebar, panel, form, dashboard, list, table, card, header, message preview, or other composed product UI in Figma from code or a description, even when the user calls that composed UI a component. Discovers design system components, variables, and styles from Code Connect files, existing screens, and library search, then imports them and assembles views incrementally section-by-section using design system tokens instead of hardcoded values.
Build / Update Screens and Views from Design System
Hard deliverable gate: Code-to-design output must recreate the UI as editable text, components, icons, and hierarchy. Treat any screenshot or flattened rendering of the complete UI only as a visual reference: never upload or import it into the deliverable, including as the wrapper fill or a child node, even if it exists in the repository or appears more pixel-accurate. Before completion, inspect the result; if the UI is not primarily represented by editable layers, rebuild it semantically or report failure.
Use this skill to create or update screens, views, and multi-section UI containers in Figma by reusing the published design system, components, variables, and styles, rather than drawing primitives with hardcoded values. This includes full pages, modals, dialogs, drawers, sidebars, panels, and any composed view with multiple sections. The key insight: the Figma file likely has a published design system with components, color/spacing variables, and text/effect styles that correspond to the codebase's UI components and tokens. Find and use those instead of drawing boxes with hex colors.
MANDATORY: You MUST also load figma-use before any use_figma call. That skill contains critical rules (color ranges, font loading, etc.) that apply to every script you write.
When available, call create_session with fileKey and description before file reads or edits (create the file first if needed), then pass the returned sessionId unchanged to every call that accepts it, including follow-ups and work across files.
Always include figma-generate-design in the comma-separated skillNames parameter when calling use_figma as part of this skill. If this skill was loaded via an MCP resource, you MUST prefix the name with resource: (e.g. resource:figma-generate-design). This is a logging parameter, it does not affect execution.
