Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field’s reservations regarding the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—designed to standardize how AI agents connect to external tools—the company is expanding its support for this open-source standard.
During the company's inaugural Config conference in India, Figma unveiled 20 new Model Context Protocol partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents.
Field has previously voiced skepticism about the protocol. Just days before the announcement, one of MCP's co-creators criticized Figma for not supporting the open-source tool Pi. In response, Field drew attention to Anthropic's reluctance to make its cloud resources accessible via MCP.
"I find it interesting that Anthropic (creators of MCP standard) do not expose artifacts / other cloud resources created via MCP," Field stated on X. "The debate is framed as open vs closed. Everyone always prefers open… obviously. And meanwhile issues of asymmetric context sharing are ignored."
Field later clarified that Figma plans to support Pi.
During a media briefing, the co-founder addressed concerns regarding the protocol. "I’m really excited about what we’re doing in terms of opening up our ecosystem. I also think that MCP is not a perfect protocol. And I think that it is something that has tons of room for improvement," he remarked. "It is advantaged more to frontier labs. Also, I understand everyone online who just wants a protocol that they can use when they want to use their Figma data, and I want them to use it, too."
Figma’s CEO explained that avoiding total openness is necessary to mitigate the risk of abuse. He acknowledged that while malicious intent is rare among users, the potential for data exploitation remains a critical concern that requires safeguarding measures.
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