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Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

187 points · 106 comments · thdr

  1. dyllon · · focus · HN ↗
    Frankly, “whitelisting” clients is against the spirit of MCP.
    1. klardotsh · · focus · HN ↗
      Welcome to where this was inevitably all going to go eventually. The entirety of commercial personal computing is going this direction: locking down APIs to make sure you’re not only doing what the company wants, but also the way the company wants. Mobile phones provide countless examples already; applying those examples to LLM world isn’t far fetched - and Anthropic already started down the road of “any old agent isn’t OUR agent” months ago.
    2. chpatrick · · focus · HN ↗
      Open MCP basically kills your product in my opinion, you can't charge for any feature the LLM can do itself.

      It's probably good news for users and open source though, why would you pay for something if a free tool with an MCP can do it.

      1. fidotron · · focus · HN ↗
        > Open MCP basically kills your product in my opinion, you can't charge for any feature the LLM can do itself.

        For products for which this is true resorting to whitelisting clients simply accelerates your obsolescence by creating a temporary market for products that are MCP, and open agent, friendly.

    3. fg137 · · focus · HN ↗
      MCP creator said the same thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dsp_&#x2F;status&#x2F;2105316536852320279" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dsp_&#x2F;status&#x2F;2105316536852320279
    4. recursive · · focus · HN ↗
      Spam is against the spirit of email.
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