Figma Adds 20 MCP Partners While Co-Founder Flags Protocol’s Limitations

Figma co-founder Dylan Field has publicly questioned the model context protocol (MCP) standard even as his company announced 20 new MCP partners in October 2026, highlighting a tension between ecosystem openness and data security.

The announcement came at Config, Figma’s first conference held in India. New MCP partners include Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents, among others. MCP is an open-source standard that defines how AI agents connect to external data sources and tools.

Field’s reservations about MCP surfaced publicly in the days before the announcement, when one of MCP’s co-creators criticized Figma for not supporting the open-source tool Pi. In his response, Field pointed to what he described as an asymmetry in how Anthropic — MCP’s creator — applies the protocol to its own products.

“I find it interesting that Anthropic (creators of MCP standard) do not expose artifacts / other cloud resources created via MCP,” Field wrote on X. “The debate is framed as open vs closed. Everyone always prefers open… obviously. And meanwhile issues of asymmetric context sharing are ignored.” Field later confirmed that Figma plans to support Pi.

At a media briefing, Field elaborated on his position. “I also think that MCP is not a perfect protocol. And I think that it is something that has tons of room for improvement,” he said, adding that the standard is “advantaged more to frontier labs.”

Field explained that Figma’s reluctance to expose all of its data through MCP stems from abuse risk. While most users have no malicious intent, he said the company still has to account for those potential risks. The company’s stated approach is to support as many standards as possible without fully opening its data.