--- title: Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect... description: Figma is expanding support for the model context protocol (MCP) despite co-founder Dylan Field's reservations about it. The company announced 20 new MCP... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/figma-co-founder-dylan-field-thinks-mcp-is-not-a-perfect-protocol-ni3i8piia twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol | daily.dev og:description: Figma is expanding support for the model context protocol (MCP) despite co-founder Dylan Field's reservations about it. The company announced 20 new MCP... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/figma-co-founder-dylan-field-thinks-mcp-is-not-a-perfect-protocol-ni3i8piia og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NI3I8piIa.png og:image:alt: Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Figma is expanding support for the model context protocol (MCP) despite co-founder Dylan Field's reservations about it. The company announced 20 new MCP partners at its first Config conference in India, including Amp, ClickUp, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Mistral, Notion, and OpenCode. Field argues MCP is 'not a perfect protocol' and is 'advantaged more to frontier labs.' Field also criticized Anthropic for not exposing its own artifacts and cloud resources via MCP. Figma's CEO said the company does not want to be fully open because exposing more data through MCP raises the chance of abuse. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why does Dylan Field say MCP is not a perfect protocol? Dylan Field, Figma's co-founder, says MCP is 'advantaged more to frontier labs' and has 'tons of room for improvement.' He pointed out that Anthropic, which created the MCP standard, does not expose artifacts or other cloud resources created via MCP, arguing the open-vs-closed debate ignores issues of asymmetric context sharing. _Anyone weighing how open to make an MCP integration can follow this debate as it plays out on daily.dev._ ### Which companies did Figma add as MCP partners at its Config conference in India? Figma announced 20 new model context protocol partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents. This expansion came despite co-founder Dylan Field's public reservations about MCP's design favoring large AI labs. _Developers tracking which tools plug into Figma via MCP can follow new partner announcements on daily.dev._ ### Why doesn't Figma expose all of its data through MCP? Figma's CEO explained that the more data the company exposes through MCP, the higher the chance of abuse, even though most users don't intend to misuse MCP or Figma data. The company still has to account for those potential risks when deciding what to open up. _Teams designing MCP servers that balance openness and abuse risk can follow this reasoning on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained](https://daily.dev/posts/figma-design-to-code-code-to-design-clearly-explained-u3nuveewv) · ByteByteGo · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#figma](https://daily.dev/tags/figma) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/figma-co-founder-dylan-field-thinks-mcp-is-not-a-perfect-protocol-ni3i8piia) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/figma-co-founder-dylan-field-thinks-mcp-is-not-a-perfect-protocol-ni3i8piia","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/figma-co-founder-dylan-field-thinks-mcp-is-not-a-perfect-protocol-ni3i8piia"},"datePublished":"2026-10-20T14:14:39.378Z","dateModified":"2026-10-20T14:28:29.920Z","description":"Figma is expanding support for the model context protocol (MCP) despite co-founder Dylan Field's reservations about it. 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