Cursor Talk to Figma MCP

Cursor Talk to Figma MCP is a Figma community plugin paired with a TypeScript MCP server that gives AI coding agents a live, two-way channel into your design canvas. Once installed, Cursor or Claude Code can scan nodes, replace text in bulk, create frames and shapes, tweak auto-layout, swap component instances, propagate overrides, export images, and even wire up prototype reactions, all from natural-language prompts in the editor.

The project, by Sonny Lazuardi, runs entirely on your machine: a Bun-powered WebSocket server brokers messages between the Figma plugin and the MCP server registered in ~/.cursor/mcp.json. That makes it free and self-hosted, with no SaaS layer between your design files and the model. It is aimed squarely at developers and design engineers who want to drive Figma the way they drive a codebase, rather than designers looking for a generative co-pilot inside the canvas.

With roughly 6.9k GitHub stars and an MIT license, it has become one of the de facto reference implementations for Figma-via-MCP workflows. Caveats: setup is fiddlier than a pure plugin (you run a local WS server), and capability is bounded by what the Figma Plugin API exposes, so very large files can hit batching and performance limits.