Using agents in Figma Design (and coming soon to FigJam and Slides)
Summary
Figma agents now support attachments, connectors, and reusable skills to scale design workflows across teams. By packaging best practices into shareable instructions and pulling live context from external tools, teams can move from single-player AI workflows to collaborative, transparent design processes that eliminate silos.
Key Takeaways
- Use attachments (spreadsheets, images, text files, Figma file links) to give agents full design structure including components, tokens, layout, and styles for accurate pattern reproduction.
- Create reusable skills in plain English to package team workflows, conventions, and preferences that anyone can invoke with a slash command to scale design best practices.
- Connect external tools via MCP connectors to pull live context (research notes, customer data) into design conversations and pass outputs back to external docs for seamless integration.
- Make agent chats visible in open threads so team members can read the full design process and reasoning without meetings, while preserving option to keep chats private.
- Agents in FigJam and Slides handle repetitive tasks (creating boards from data, summarizing bugs with priority assessment, building presentation decks from docs) so teams focus on strategy.
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Transcript Excerpt
Figma agents make your work faster, more efficient, and more fun. Now, they're available in open beta in design and coming soon to FigJam. >> And slides. >> Hi, I'm Rodrigo, product manager. >> I'm Sam, product designer. >> And I'm Luke, product manager as well. >> The configure updates to the Figma design agent enable you to leverage context and expertise to improve output quality and scale up agentic design with your team. We already have a few ways to give the agent context. You can reference a design frame, connect to a library, mention assets, or use web search to fetch data via a live URL. And today, we're adding even more with skills, [music] connectors, and attachments. First attachments. You can drop text files, spreadsheets, and images into the agent chat to give it more context …