Figma

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What is Figma?

Figma is where design happens, files, projects, comments, versions, and the handoff details that turn a design into something buildable. Around the design work itself sits a steady stream of collaboration: comments to answer, versions to track, dev resources and variables to keep in order. This connection lets Fabric's assistant handle that layer for you, in plain language, and respond when files and comments change.

What Fabric's assistant can do with Figma

Once your Figma is connected, Fabric's AI assistant can act on your files from plain-language requests.

Search your files. Search files, file metadata, and file versions, so you can find the file or the point in its history you're after without hunting through projects.

Handle comments. Create, delete, and react to comments, and remove comment reactions, so feedback threads can be managed without opening each file.

Manage dev resources and variables. Create dev resources, and create, update, and manage variables, plus create images, so the handoff and design-system details stay in order. Some of these depend on your Figma plan, dev resources need a dev seat, and variables are an enterprise feature.

Because you ask in your own words, you describe what you want and the assistant maps it to the right Figma action or trigger.

You stay in control

The assistant acts only when you ask. For anything that removes or changes things, deleting a comment or reaction, updating a variable, it confirms with you before going ahead where the change is consequential, unless you've told it not to for a particular task. Searching and reading never change anything in your files.

When something should happen regularly, you can set up a Fabric AI job that runs on a schedule, tracking new versions, flagging new comments, keeping dev resources current, so the routine parts run themselves while you keep approval over anything that changes or removes.

Search your Figma from Fabric

Alongside the assistant, connecting Figma adds keyword search over your design files from Fabric's main search, so a file is findable by matching text in the same place you search the rest of your library, rather than searching Figma separately. It pairs well with the Google Drive connection, where design exports and briefs often live.

How people use it

Designers keep on top of feedback by having the assistant find and manage comments, and track versions across files, without opening each one. It fits how Fabric works for designers.

Design leads let file and comment activity trigger follow-on actions, so a new version or a new comment can set the next step in motion.

Teams handing off to engineering keep dev resources and variables current, so the build-facing details stay in step with the design.

People with recurring design-ops chores set up a scheduled AI job to track versions or manage comments, while keeping approval over anything that changes or removes.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Figma connection do?

It lets Fabric's AI assistant work with your Figma files, taking actions like managing comments, tracking versions, and handling dev resources and variables. It also adds keyword search over your design files in Fabric.

What can the assistant do in Figma?

It can search files, metadata, and versions, create, delete, and react to comments, create dev resources, create and update variables, and create images. Some actions depend on your Figma plan. You ask in plain language rather than choosing from a fixed list.

Does it manage comments and versions rather than the designs themselves?

Yes. This connection works with the collaboration and handoff layer, comments, versions, dev resources, and variables, and adds search across your files, rather than editing the visual designs. The design work stays in Figma.

Are all the actions available on any Figma plan?

No. Some depend on your plan: dev resources require a dev seat, and variables are an enterprise feature. The rest work more broadly.

Does the assistant change my files on its own?

No. It acts only when you ask, and for consequential changes, deleting comments, updating variables, it confirms with you first, unless you've deliberately told it not to for a specific task. Searching and reading change nothing.

Can I automate design-ops work?

Yes. A Fabric AI job can run on a schedule, for example tracking versions or flagging comments, while you keep approval over anything that changes or removes.

Can I search my Figma files from Fabric?

Yes, by keyword, from Fabric's main search, so a file is findable by matching text alongside the rest of your library.

Is my Figma data secure?

Everything in Fabric is encrypted in transit and at rest. The connection acts on your Figma with your authorisation, and you control what it does. The details are in the privacy and security guide and Fabric's privacy commitment.

Does this work through MCP or the API?

Fabric also exposes your library and connected tools to external AI through its MCP server and API; this connection is the built-in way to have Fabric's own assistant work with your Figma.

Does Fabric work with other tools alongside Figma?

Yes. Figma is one of many connections. You can also connect Notion, Google Drive, and Gmail, and automate across many apps with Zapier.