# figma-build

Builds or updates a design in a connected Figma file from code or a description, reusing its components, variables, and styles. Useful for moving UI work onto the canvas.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1300 installs · ★ 1172
- Author: awdr74100
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/awdr74100/figwright/tree/HEAD/skills/figma-build/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/figma-build

## What it does

The skill turns code or a written specification into a Figma design: a full screen, section, modal, component, or design-system asset. Before writing, it inspects the connected file with `get_variable_defs`, `scan_components`, `get_local_components`, and `get_styles`. That lets it reuse existing components, variables, and shared styles instead of rebuilding the interface from primitives.

The agent then assembles the design with component instances, binds colours and dimensions to variables, sets auto-layout, and checks the result with `get_screenshot`. If the source includes animation, the skill can apply it as Figma Motion using the available animation tools. The target file must be open, and the connection should be confirmed with `ping` first.

The skill works with the current connected Figma session. When several files are open, select the target with `list_files` and `use_file` before writing. Check this first, because otherwise a build can be sent to the wrong file.

## Requirements
- Works with: Figma

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awdr74100/figwright --skill figma-build -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/figma-build/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/figma-build/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awdr74100/figwright --skill figma-build -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/figma-build/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awdr74100/figwright --skill figma-build -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/figma-build/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install awdr74100/figwright figma-build
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/figma-build/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awdr74100/figwright --skill figma-build -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/awdr74100/figwright --path skills/figma-build
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/figma-build/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awdr74100/figwright --skill figma-build -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/awdr74100/figwright/tree/HEAD/skills/figma-build/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- move a React or Vue component into Figma
- build a screen from a written specification
- update an existing design from source code
- bind a UI to the file’s variables and components
- check the built screen with a screenshot

## Example prompts
- Build this React component in the connected Figma file and reuse its existing components and variables.
- Create a Figma screen from this specification, confirm the connection with `ping`, then show a screenshot of the result.
- Update the selected screen from this code and reuse matching styles that already exist in the file.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: figma-build
description: Build a Figma design from code or a description — the reverse of figma-codegen. Reuses the connected file's existing design system (components, variables, styles) instead of drawing primitives with hardcoded values. Triggers whenever the user wants something created or updated IN Figma from code or a spec — e.g. 'build this in Figma', 'create a Figma design for this', 'push this component/screen to Figma', 'turn this React/Vue into a Figma design', 'recreate this UI in Figma', 'make a Figma version of …', 'design a landing page/screen in Figma' — or whenever a coding artifact (a component, page, or spec) appears alongside a request to author in a connected Figma file. Works for full screens, sections, single components, or design-system assets.
---

# figma-build

Turn code or a description into a Figma design that looks like it belongs in the file: **reuse the
components, variables, and styles that already exist, and only build what's genuinely missing.** This
is the mirror image of `figma-codegen` — same "reuse beats regenerate / reference tokens not
literals" philosophy, pointed at the canvas instead of the codebase. This file is the router; deep
detail lives in [`references/`](./references) — load a reference when its step is in play.

You operate on the **connected** Figma file (the plugin's current session). There is no fetch-by-URL;
the user must have the target file open. Confirm a plugin is connected (`ping`) before building.

## When to use

- The user wants to **create or update** something in Figma from code or a description — a screen,
  view, modal/dialog/drawer/sidebar/panel, a single component, or a design-system asset.
- **Not** for reading a Figma design into code — that's `figma-codegen`.

## More than one Figma file open

Every tool result says so when it applies, so you do not have to check up front: with two or more
files connected and none claimed, results carry a `MORE THAN ONE FIGMA FILE IS OPEN` block naming
them. It matters because calls otherwise follow whichever file the user last touched, which changes
when they switch tabs — so a task can read one file and write to another and report success.

When you see it, claim the file before doing anything else: `list_files` names every connected file,
`use_file({ fileName })` claims one for this session (`use_file({ sessionId })` when two open files
share a name — Figma allows that, and `x (Copy)` is how it happens). Every later call then reaches
that file whatever is in front, including while its tab sits in the background. If the user has not
said which file, ask — do not guess from the names.
```
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