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Someone please explain to me the value of being able to interact with Figma via Gemini CLI?

Why would I want to do that?

If there's value in a human using Figma, there's value in being able to give a "bot" instructions to do whatever a person might. e.g. "Gemini, update all the Figma layouts with this new text."

last I checked the Figma MCP is read-only -- "look at this figma design and implement it"

Figma MCP doesn't seem very useful at all and seem to me to compete with their newer prompt based builder. I think they're probably have their AI fork in the road. If they can't integrate these tools someone else will...

Presumably the reverse would be more valuable: design something in Figma, then have Gemini CLI read from Figma and use that as a reference while writing the code.

I don't know if this is how the Figma integration works, but right now I'm just manually screenshotting my designs and passing them into Claude CLI as references for what I want, so this seems potentially more streamlined.

I’ve regularly used prompts along the lines ‘please modify the UI tor x feature to look like the selected Figma frame’. It’s ideal for a designing developer who wants to be much more specific about the user experience.

Assuming that includes reading, there’s a definite case for having your coding assistant being able to easily see the designs.

I don't understand why this question is being downvoted. Feels like there aren't many use cases yet

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