Figma announced 20 new MCP partners at its Config conference, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents. The company is expanding its support for the open source standard despite concerns raised by its co-founder Dylan Field.
Field has previously expressed misgivings about MCP, including a comment on X about Anthropic not making its resources available via MCP. He wrote, "I find it interesting that Anthropic (creators of MCP standard) do not expose artifacts/other cloud resources created via MCP."
At a media briefing, Field explained that while Figma wants to be open, he doesn’t think MCP is a perfect 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 said.
Figma’s CEO stated that the company doesn’t want to be fully open because exposing more data through MCP increases the risk of abuse. The CEO added that while most users don’t intend to misuse MCP or Figma data, the company must consider these potential risks.
The announcement follows a debate over MCP’s openness, with Field responding to a co-creator’s complaint about Figma not supporting the open source tool Pi. Field later clarified that Figma plans to support Pi.
Figma did not say how it will address the issue of asymmetric context sharing, and the debate over MCP’s openness continues. The company said it will continue to evaluate the protocol’s evolution.
Source: techcrunch
