Design tool Figma has added integrations with Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to route interface work between AI coding tools and the design canvas.
Figma announced the Claude Code integration on its blog, and the Codex integration in a joint announcement with OpenAI.
Two integrations, two directions
The two posts describe complementary workflows. In the Claude Code announcement, Figma describes a flow where developers capture a functioning interface from production, staging or localhost and convert it into editable frames on the Figma canvas.
In the joint Codex announcement, the direction reverses: teams review a running interface in Figma, refine it together and return it to the coding agent with design context preserved. The connector for both flows is Figma’s MCP server, which OpenAI described in its post as “an open-source standard that enables AI agents to interface with external data sources, applications, and tools.”
Figma’s developer documentation specifies that the live UI capture feature, turning a running interface into editable Figma layers, is currently available only through Claude Code and Codex. Figma’s documentation lists multiple supported clients for the MCP server.
One server, many clients
Its help-center guide lists VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code and Codex among supported clients. The guide also separates entitlements by seat type: the remote server, which connects directly to Figma’s hosted endpoint, is available on all seats and plans, while the desktop server — which runs locally through the Figma desktop app — requires a Dev or Full seat under a paid plan.
Loredana Crisan, Figma’s chief design officer, said in the joint OpenAI post that “teams can build on their best ideas — not just their first idea — by combining the best of code with the creativity, collaboration, and craft that comes with Figma’s infinite canvas.”
Codex product lead Alexander Embiricos, also quoted in the same announcement, said the integration “doesn’t assume you’re ‘a designer’ or ‘an engineer’ first,” adding that “the boundary between roles starts to soften because the system helps translate between intent and reality continuously.”
A multi-vendor control layer, not a partnership
Figma’s simultaneous partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI, direct competitors in the coding-agent market, follow that same multi-client logic.
The Figma MCP Catalog positions the server as a connector to “top MCP clients,” naming Cursor and Windsurf alongside Codex and Claude Code.
According to OpenAI’s Feb. 26 announcement, Codex now counts more than 1 million weekly users. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the Codex app was downloaded by more than 1 million people in its first week.