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How Relevant is $extentions when exporting figma variables natively

  • February 19, 2026
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Adam_Gordon

Hey all, I’m just getting round to investigating the native variable export options and have a question relating to $extensions .

How relevant is this information outside of the Figma ecosystem? If I was to export this and add this to my GitHub Repository, should this just be something that I remove, and if so is there a way to exclude this from the export at all?

If I understand correctly, that information is possibly only meant for importing into another file, but I just wanted to validate that assumption before hand.

Some example code below to illustrate:

"green": {
"500": {
"100A": {
"$type": "color",
"$value": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [
0.13333334028720856,
0.5254902243614197,
0.3960784375667572
],
"alpha": 1,
"hex": "#228665"
},
"$extensions": {
"com.figma.variableId": "VariableID:5809:5642",
"com.figma.hiddenFromPublishing": true,
"com.figma.scopes": [
"ALL_SCOPES"
],
"com.figma.isOverride": true
}
}
}
}