Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol
TechCrunch Ivan Mehta
Figma says MCP isn’t perfect, even as it adds 20 more partners. The push is bigger, but the company still worries more openness means more abuse.
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Figma is leaning further into MCP even as its co-founder says the protocol has real flaws. The company used its first Config conference in India to announce 20 new model context protocol partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode and Sarvam Agents.
That’s a pretty clear show of support for an open standard that helps AI agents connect to outside data and tools. But Dylan Field has been unusually blunt about it. In a post on X, he pushed back on a complaint that Figma did not support the open-source tool Pi, and took a swipe at Anthropic for not exposing its own resources through MCP. He also said Figma plans to support Pi.
At a media briefing, Field sharpened the point. He said Figma wants to open up its ecosystem, but he doesn’t see MCP as a finished answer. The protocol, in his view, still has “tons of room for improvement,” and he argued that it is more favorable to frontier labs.
There’s also a more practical reason for the hesitation. Figma’s CEO said the company does not want to be fully open because every extra bit of data exposed through MCP increases the risk of abuse. Most users may never touch Figma data in a malicious way, but the company still has to plan for the ones who might.
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This is the honest part of the AI interoperability story: everyone loves openness until the abuse tickets start arriving. MCP may be the right direction, but standards written by the loudest labs tend to treat risk like an annoying footnote. Figma is basically saying the quiet part out loud, and that’s healthier than pretending “open” solves everything on its own.
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