Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol

Despite Figma co-founder Dylan Field’s concerns astir MCP (model discourse protocol), which standardizes however AI agents link to outer information sources and tools, the institution is expanding its enactment for the unfastened root standard.

At the plan company’s archetypal Config league held successful India, the institution announced 20 caller exemplary discourse protocol (MCP) partners, including Amp, ClickUp, Dia, Junie by JetBrains, Linear, Meta Muse, Mistral, Notion, OpenCode, and Sarvam Agents.

Field has expressed his misgivings astir MCP before. Days earlier this announcement, 1 of MCP’s co-creators complained astir Figma not supporting the open-source instrumentality Pi. As portion of his response, Field made a remark astir Anthropic not making its assorted resources disposable via MCP.

“I find it absorbing that Anthropic (creators of MCP standard) bash not exposure artifacts / different unreality resources created via MCP,” helium wrote connected X. “The statement is framed arsenic unfastened vs closed. Everyone ever prefers open… obviously. And meantime issues of asymmetric discourse sharing are ignored.”

(Field aboriginal added that Figma plans enactment Pi.)

At a media briefing, I asked Field astir this debate. The co-founder explained that portion Figma wants to beryllium open, helium doesn’t deliberation MCP is simply a cleanable protocol.

“I’m truly excited astir what we’re doing successful presumption of opening up our ecosystem. I besides deliberation that MCP is not a cleanable protocol. And I deliberation that it is thing that has tons of country for improvement,” the co-founder responded. “It is advantaged much to frontier labs. Also, I recognize everyone online who conscionable wants a protocol that they tin usage erstwhile they privation to usage their Figma data, and I privation them to usage it, too.”

Figma’s CEO said that the crushed the institution doesn’t privation to beryllium afloat unfastened is that the much information the institution exposes done MCP, the higher the accidental of abuse.

He besides clarified that portion astir users don’t mean to usage MCP oregon Figma information successful a malicious way, the institution inactive has to deliberation astir those imaginable risks.