Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

38 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by dannote

13 Comments

pglevy

an hour ago

I'm curious to understand more about your use case. I've been working on getting fellow designers out of Figma since it's easier to express intent in code now using LLMs.

james_marks

40 minutes ago

Not OP, but my interest in Figma is that when a human designer needs to take over, UI/UX designers know Figma.

VladVladikoff

3 hours ago

Can it make a SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle?

rafaelmn

3 hours ago

"Humanity's last exam" HN edition

Mic92

2 hours ago

I am a human and I can't...

bryanrasmussen

11 minutes ago

looks like you failed your last exam, please exit through the red door down the aisle.

falloutx

3 hours ago

I like how MCP is not shoved into our face anymore after people realised more mcp servers eat into context and agents can easily use CLI tools.

_pdp_

3 hours ago

I fully agree with the comment but CLI tools don't do auth and session management in a consistent way. Besides, imagine if now every vendor out there need to distributed custom binaries for their services. Some of them do. Many don't.. but overall it is just increased security risk for the end user when the functionality that is delivered is simply an interface to an API.

Mic92

2 hours ago

I remember that a llm agents often store those in clear text files (I think claude-code beeing one of them). Many of the CLIs I use have a better secret hygiene than that i.e. allow passwords commands or use secret apis.

conception

2 hours ago

MCP tools do not do auth and session management in a consistent way based on just the seven or so I use regularly.

eddywebs

3 hours ago

I can attest that ai agent executing cli binaries is better than use of an mcp, just because of the limitations of mcp, also figma mcp requires a pro license. Does the figma cli require a pro license as well ?

james_marks

42 minutes ago

Nice work!

How does it do applying styles from an existing codebase?

We have style guides, strong base css, etc. If that was represented when it built in Figma, that could be interesting.

preommr

an hour ago

Any thoughts on why Citty, or if there's any other cli tools you might recommend?