Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol
Figma co-founder Dylan Field says MCP isn't perfect and favors frontier labs, as Figma expands MCP support.Summary
Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field's concerns about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which standardizes how AI agents connect to external data sources and tools, the company is expanding its support for the open source standard. At Figma's first Config conference in India, the company announced 20 new MCP partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents. Field has previously expressed misgivings about MCP, notably commenting on X that Anthropic, the creators of the MCP standard, do not expose artifacts or other cloud resources created via MCP, and that the debate is framed as open versus closed while issues of asymmetric context sharing are ignored. At a media briefing, Field explained that while Figma wants to be open, he does not think MCP is a perfect protocol and that it has tons of room for improvement. He said it is advantaged more to frontier labs, and that he understands everyone online who just wants a protocol they can use with their Figma data, and he wants them to use it too. Figma's CEO said the reason the company does not want to be fully open is that the more data it exposes through MCP, the higher the chance of abuse, and while most users do not intend to use MCP or Figma data maliciously, the company still has to consider those potential risks.
(Source：TechCrunch)