MCP Server won't connect

[PiovisDevelopment]

I have a Windows 11 Lenovo 4060 laptop.

I've tried to connect the Figma MCP server to Cursor, but without luck.

I've noticed in the notes and in several videos, please have the button 'Add MCP Server' when they click on 'MCP' in settings.

I have a button that says 'Add new global MCP server'.

Can anyone help me get over this issue.

[inhyeokjo]

Hi, just click the +Add new global MCP server button and fill in the following:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Framelink Figma MCP": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": [
        "/c",
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "figma-developer-mcp",
        "--figma-api-key=YOUR-KEY",
        "--stdio"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[PiovisDevelopment]

Thanks @inhyeokjo I tried that and still could not connect.

[GLips]

I'm not familiar with Windows so unfortunately can't help that much. A cursory web search seems to say it might be related to your node version? Do you know what you're running? Could you try Node 18 if not already running it?

[PiovisDevelopment]

@GLips thanks - I'm running Node v18.16.0.

[coolcorexix]

hey, with the new Cursor update you can by pass a config JSON object to the mcp.json file, here is what is working for me

    "Figma-MCP": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "http://localhost:3333/sse"
    }

[PxKimHyeongRae]

@coolcorexix

Thank you.

After changing the existing configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Framelink Figma MCP": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "figma-developer-mcp", "--figma-api-key=mykey", "--stdio"] 
    }
  }
}

to

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "Figma-MCP": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "http://localhost:3333/sse"
    }
  }
}

and running npx figma-developer-mcp --figma-api-key=mykey in the command line, the issue was resolved without any problems.

Thank you!

[Fartpeach1003]

@GLips I've connected successfully, but the cursor still reports an errorresult：Error fetching file: [object Object]
This figma is private. When configuring key permissions, I turned on the read permissions.so i think this key should be accessed with permissions but this error is not detailed. i don't know where the problem is.

[inhyeokjo]

I changed my comment!

Maybe you didn't put your figma-key
@PiovisDevelopment

[PiovisDevelopment]

@inhyeokjo thank you, I got it to work using your format! :) thank you!

[TaylorPzreal]

A Dockerfile config demo:

FROM docker.1ms.run/node:20-alpine

WORKDIR /app

RUN npm install -g figma-developer-mcp@0.1.12

# Define environment variable that can be overridden at runtime
ENV FIGMA_API_KEY=""

# Use shell form of ENTRYPOINT to allow environment variable expansion
ENTRYPOINT figma-developer-mcp --figma-api-key=$FIGMA_API_KEY --stdio

mcp.json config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "figma": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "-e",
        "FIGMA_API_KEY="xxx",
        "--rm",
        "mcp-figma"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Works ok.