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Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

187 points · 106 comments · thdr

spwa4 · 1790869806 · focus · HN ↗
I think we'll see more of this. Of course SAAS companies like Figma, and soon Adobe and ... will see that their tools are still useful. And they are useful to LLMs like they are useful to humans.
The obvious play to "extract value" from that is to restrict access to bots and offer LLM integration themselves, for a fee.
1. thenewnewguy · 1790870357 · focus · HN ↗
  How does restricting the MCP ""user agent"" to only claude and codex and whatever enable Figma to extract value?
  1. adithyassekhar · 1790870600 · focus · HN ↗
    Soon they might require a vendor specific api key to access it and that requires support from the big players (anthropic,openai). They’re laying down the “framework” now.

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