Open-source Dalí turns Figma .fig files into local searchable indexes with MCP support for coding agents
salvadorsru · reddit · 2026-09-26
Developer salvadorsru released Dalí, a GPL-3.0 CLI/MCP server written in Go that treats .fig files as local searchable artifacts — no Figma tab, REST API, or uploads required.
The design principle: the .fig file is the source of truth, and Dalí builds a rebuildable local SQLite index around it, supporting:
- Full-text search over layer names and text, plus XPath-like structural queries
- Semantic/vector search (e.g. semantic-search "checkout flow")
- Component, style, variable and asset inspection, geometry analysis, design linting
- Diffing between two .fig versions
- An MCP server so AI coding agents can query designs locally instead of hitting the Figma API repeatedly
- CLI automation, component/code generation and design tokens
The author is especially interested in the Figma → local files → AI coding agent workflow. GitHub: salvadorsru/dali.
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