Figma-use
CLI to control Figma for AI agents
Details
- External ID
- 46665169
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Figma-use
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 115
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9143610013175231
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I'm Dan, and I built a CLI that lets AI agents design in Figma.What it does: 100 commands to create shapes, text, frames, components, modify styles, export assets. JSX importing that's ~100x faster than any plugin API import. Works with any LLM coding assistant.Why I built it: The official Figma MCP server can only read files. I wanted AI to actually design — create buttons, build layouts, generate entire component systems. Existing solutions were either read-only or required verbose JSON schemas that burn through tokens.Demo (45 sec): https://youtu.be/9eSYVZRle7oTech stack: Bun + Citty for CLI, Elysia WebSocket proxy, Figma plugin. The render command connects to Figma's internal multiplayer protocol via Chrome DevTools for extra performance when dealing with large groups of objects.Try it: bun install -g @dannote/figma-useLooking for feedback on CLI ergonomics, missing commands, and whether the JSX syntax feels natural.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- cli to control figma for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a CLI that interfaces with Figma's REST/Plugin APIs and parses JSX to Figma node trees, which is standard API integration and AST manipulation readily generated by AI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: PenPot - Figma alternative with free Code mode, Codia - screenshot to components conversion, Make - Figma's prompt to design integration, Token Studio - design tokens/Style Dictionary, bareminimum.design - ASCII wireframe to code
Concerns raised: Requires governance process at scale to prevent design-code drift across multiple teams, Large PRs difficult to review when non-designers generate code without engineering oversight, Plugins don't properly respect components in design toolkit, High-fidelity design (design system colors, spacing tokens) not in AI's wheelhouse, Needs deep Figma-codebase integration for shared definitions
Feature requests: Vector path manipulation commands, Deeper integration between Figma and Storybook components, Shared color palette and design token definitions between Figma and codebase, Prompt to design without going through Make/third parties, Examples available without signup
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 40 days after the earliest competitor.
- figma-agent-cli · github · 2026-09-14 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Figma for Agents · ph · 2026-04-14 · 583 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Figma for Coding Agents · hn · 2026-04-10 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I built a tool that turns any API into a CLI for agents · hn · 2026-03-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Peek · hn · 2026-06-14 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MarkupGen · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- CLI-use · hn · 2026-04-21 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SystemFoundry · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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