figma-generate-design
Build / Update Screens and Views from Design System
Hard deliverable gate: Code-to-design output must recreate the UI as editable text, components, icons, and hierarchy. Treat any screenshot or flattened rendering of the complete UI only as a visual reference: never upload or import it into the deliverable, including as the wrapper fill or a child node, even if it exists in the repository or appears more pixel-accurate. Before completion, inspect the result; if the UI is not primarily represented by editable layers, rebuild it semantically or report failure.
Use this skill to create or update screens, views, and multi-section UI containers in Figma by reusing the published design system — components, variables, and styles — rather than drawing primitives with hardcoded values. This includes full pages, modals, dialogs, drawers, sidebars, panels, and any composed view with multiple sections. The key insight: the Figma file likely has a published design system with components, color/spacing variables, and text/effect styles that correspond to the codebase's UI components and tokens. Find and use those instead of drawing boxes with hex colors.
MANDATORY: You MUST also load figma-use before any use_figma call. That skill contains critical rules (color ranges, font loading, etc.) that apply to every script you write.
Always include figma-generate-design in the comma-separated skillNames parameter when calling use_figma as part of this skill. If this skill was loaded via an MCP resource, you MUST prefix the name with resource: (e.g. resource:figma-generate-design). This is a logging parameter — it does not affect execution.
Skill Boundaries
- Use this skill when the deliverable is a composed Figma view (new or updated) — full-page screens, modals, dialogs, drawers, sidebars, panels, or any multi-section container — built from design system component instances.
- If the user wants to create new reusable components or variants, use figma-use directly.
- If the user wants to write Code Connect mappings, switch to figma-code-connect.