Try these 10 skills—and show off your own
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Figma now lets users author custom 'skills'—plain-text markdown instructions—for its design agent directly within Figma, letting designers encode their own workflows, opinions, and judgment calls. The piece highlights ten community-built skills, including tools for generating X-ray image effects, finding missing motion opportunities, building camera pan/zoom animations, auditing components, matching colors to design tokens, expanding UI states, running design crits, and creating usability test discussion guides. Many of these skills also work with Figma's MCP server in third-party agents, and example skills are available on GitHub. The Figma design agent remains in open beta for Full seat users on Professional, Organization, and Enterprise plans, free to use during beta.
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1. Apply an x-ray effect to your images2. Find where motion is missing3. Bring motion to a static composition4. Catch the details your interface is missing5. Document components automatically6. Match colors to tokens7. Audit your components in one pass8. Design for every state9. Give your design a crit10. Create a discussion guide for usability testingQuestions this post answers
What are skills in the Figma agent and how do you create them?
Skills are plain-text markdown files containing ordered instructions or guided prompts that teach the Figma agent a specific workflow or point of view. Starting with this release, users can ask the agent to draft a skill from a design frame or provided steps, preview and iterate on it in chat, or edit the markdown directly, then reuse it as a slash command like /xray-scan or /component-handoff. Designers exploring agent-driven workflows can track new Figma agent capabilities on daily.dev.
Do Figma agent skills work outside of Figma itself?
Yes, many community-built skills also work with Figma's MCP server when used inside third-party agents. A collection of skills built specifically for the Figma MCP server is maintained in a public GitHub repository, letting teams reuse the same slash-command workflows in tools beyond the Figma canvas. Teams weighing MCP-based agent integrations can follow related coverage on daily.dev.