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Figma MCP — project overlay

This is a THIN OVERLAY, not the primary reference. The official Figma MCP server ships a full skill pack (served as skill://figma/* MCP resources — verified live). Those pack skills are the source of truth for how to drive every Figma tool. This local skill exists only to:

1. Enforce the pack's mandatory prerequisite gates (our previous local skill never referenced /figma-use, so writes were driven blind — the exact cause of the "common, hard-to-debug failures" the official figma-use skill warns about).
2. Carry this workspace's own implementation conventions (design-token reuse, asset handling) that are NOT in the vendor pack.
3. Record this workspace's seat/plan caveats (Education Full seat).

Advisory scope: a skill is prompt-level guidance — it cannot hard-block a tool call. The "MANDATORY" wording below mirrors the vendor pack's own wording and is enforced by discipline, not by a hook. This overlay is a pure advisory injector (zero-block, zero-irreversible), so per the council risk-tier ladder it ships at ADVISE — no shadow machinery required.

MANDATORY prerequisite gate (load the pack skill BEFORE the tool)

Before calling any of these Figma MCP tools, FIRST load the paired pack skill. Prefer the installed /figma-* slash skill; if it is only served as an MCP resource, load the skill:// URI AND prefix the name with resource: in the tool's skillNames parameter.

| Intent / tool you are about to call | Load this pack skill FIRST | Slash / resource URI |

Read FROM Figma (design context) — project flow

Project implementation conventions (overlay — not in the vendor pack)

Asset handling

Link-based prompting

Seat / plan caveats (this workspace)

References