Figma Launches Specs Editor, Opens Code Layers Beta in India as 20 New MCP Tools Arrive
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Updated · TechCrunch · Oct 15
Figma Launches Specs Editor, Opens Code Layers Beta in India as 20 New MCP Tools Arrive
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Oct 15
Summary
Figma introduced Figma Specs—a Markdown-based editor for defining design systems—and opened its code layers feature to public beta at its first Config event in India.
Specs lets teams centralize design rules, libraries and guidelines so Figma’s own and third-party AI agents can follow brand standards more predictably while generating designs and prototypes.
Code layers, announced in private beta in June, adds editable code directly on the canvas, allowing users to turn designs into code or modify code to iterate interactive prototypes.
Figma also added support for more than 20 new MCP tools, including Open Code, Dia, Grok Bot and Sarvam, and integrated Payload with Figma Make; Payload downloads have risen sixfold in 12 months.
India is now Figma’s largest market outside the U.S.; the company says it works with 40% of the top 100 Bombay Stock Exchange-listed companies and opened its first office there last year.