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Figma is where product teams live — design files, component libraries, design tokens, comments, activity logs. But AI agents can't see inside Figma unless you give them structured access to the right data at the right granularity.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) solves this by letting AI agents call Figma as a set of typed tools. Instead of pasting screenshots into ChatGPT or manually describing your component hierarchy, the AI reads your files, inspects your components, checks your variables, and posts comments — all programmatically.

There are two ways to connect Figma via MCP: Figma's official MCP server and MCPBundles' 47-tool REST API bundle. This guide covers both.

Most APIs weren't built for AI agents. Stripe has 300+ endpoints. GitHub's API returns paginated results that change between requests. Slack rate-limits you after 20 calls per minute. None of them were designed for Claude to use directly.

We wrapped dozens of REST APIs into MCP tools and learned that a thin wrapper doesn't work. You need to rethink the interface completely—actions instead of CRUD, consolidated search instead of endless list endpoints, and server-side resilience for pagination and rate limits.

Here's what actually works.