Turning recurring team rituals into reusable agent skills

Most design teams have unwritten rules about how work gets done—the way specs are formatted, the standards applied to UX copy, or the feedback style of a particular stakeholder. These workflows are easy to follow but hard to articulate. Figma's answer is skills: reusable instruction sets, written in plain English, that teach the Figma agent a process once. You trigger them in any chat with a forward slash (/) and can publish them team-wide or organization-wide.

Since skills launched at Config 2026, Figma's own product teams have been testing what works. Here is what they have learned about making the agent a sharper collaborator.

Skills as a critical lens

A common pattern is using skills to review design work through a specific perspective. The design system still supplies the components and patterns; skills layer on top the team-specific expertise. Figma's teams built several internal examples:

  • Simulated stakeholder feedback. By feeding the agent historical comments and critiques from a specific person, you can pressure-test work before a live review. Figma built one based on CEO Dylan's feedback style.
  • UX writing standards enforcement. The Figma UX Writing team gave the agent their style guide for capitalization and punctuation so it can catch inconsistencies in a first pass, freeing writers for higher-level work.
  • First-time user perspective. A skill can review a design as a newcomer would, surfacing friction and missing context that product experts no longer see.

Standardizing recurring rituals

Skills shine when a team repeats a process every time. If your team does something consistently, it is probably worth encoding as a skill. Figma suggests these starting points:

  • A catch-me-up. Summarize recent activity in a file or project so anyone returning from time away can get context without digging through comment threads.
  • A crit prep checklist. The agent interviews you about persona, scope, and crit audience, then builds a crit page with guided discussion prompts. Figma's version references Nielsen Norman Group best practices to ensure questions drive deeper conversation.
  • A crit recap. Feedback from a critique becomes a follow-up plan grouped by theme, with decisions, action items, and deferred items. Figma's version produces a recap card that lives on the canvas or pastes into Slack so nothing is lost after the meeting.

Connecting to the broader toolchain

Skills become more powerful when they reach outside Figma. They work with MCP connectors to interact with Slack, Notion, Asana, and similar apps, pulling in PRDs, product data, research notes, or project discussions. The same reusable workflow runs in both the Figma agent and Figma Make, and skills will soon be available through Figma's MCP server, making them usable from any MCP-compatible client.

Practical connection patterns include:

  • Logging review feedback. After a critique, a skill converts comments into tasks in a project management tool, closing the gap between design and engineering.
  • Bringing research in-context. A skill pulls relevant user insights from research libraries like HeyMarvin or Notion, supplying supporting evidence during design discussions.
  • Backing decisions with data. Given the right data source, a skill can retrieve figures to support a direction, sharpen a narrative, or fact-check a claim before it reaches stakeholders.

One caveat: not every conversation should be shared. Agent chats in collaborative files are now shared by default, so teammates can see how others approach problems—what skills they invoke and how they prompt. For sensitive work, you can still switch a chat to private.

The shared-by-default behavior creates an incidental learning channel: instead of asking "how did you do that?", you can open a teammate's chat, follow their reasoning, and apply the approach to your own work.

The Figma design agent is in open beta for Full seat users on Professional, Organization, and Enterprise plans, and is free to use during beta. Collab, Dev, and View seats can use the agent in their drafts. Custom skills and connector documentation are available in the Figma help center.