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Design the core of Figma’s external platform for agents and developer tools. How should the MCP Server and REST APIs expose file context, permissions, freshness, rate limits, versioning, and observability so partners like Claude or Cursor can build reliably on top of Figma without creating fragility for internal product teams using the same platform?
- Figma
- AI & Technical
- Hard
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