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Figma expands MCP support while questioning the protocol’s balance
Figma announces 20 new MCP partners at its Config conference in India. Its cofounder Dylan Field nevertheless criticizes a protocol he believes needs improvement and favors large labs, raising questions about reciprocal data sharing and the risks of abuse.
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Figma is broadening its support for MCP despite reservations from its cofounder Dylan Field. In an article published on October 20, TechCrunch reports the announcement of 20 new partners at the company’s Config conference in India. Linear, Notion, Mistral and Sarvam Agents are among the names cited.
MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to data sources and external tools. Its adoption therefore raises a practical question for software companies: which resources should they make accessible, and under what conditions? Field believes the protocol still needs improvement and favors large AI labs. These assessments are the executive’s own; the document provides no comparative evaluation that could confirm them.
The debate concerns reciprocity in particular. In an earlier message, Field had questioned Anthropic about its failure to expose some of its resources through MCP, criticizing an asymmetry in context sharing. He also explains that opening up more Figma data can increase opportunities for abuse.
The announcement thus illustrates a tension between expanding connections and controlling access. The number of partners reflects an announced expansion of the ecosystem, without specifying, on its own, which data are actually accessible or what safeguards each integration has. Adoption of the protocol and discussion of its limitations are advancing together here.