Hi everyone,

I’m working as a Design System Designer in a large organization, and I’m setting up a starter Figma file that Product Designers can duplicate to begin their work immediately, with all the correct libraries already activated (core components, design tokens, etc.).

The goal is simple: designers should be able to duplicate this starter file and start working without having to reconfigure or manually activate libraries.

I created the starter file in a shared team project and made sure the required libraries were activated. However, when someone duplicates the file (via right-click > Duplicate or Duplicate to Drafts), all the library connections are lost. Designers then have to go to the Assets panel and re-enable the libraries manually, which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid.

I also tried:

• Placing the starter file in a shared project and giving “Can view” access → duplication still loses the libraries.

• Publishing the file publicly in Community is not an option for internal reasons.

I considered using a plugin to check or restore library links, but Figma’s plugin API doesn’t expose the list of active libraries.

My questions:

• Is there any reliable way to preserve library links when duplicating a file internally?

• Could Figma consider supporting this kind of use case in future updates?

• Has anyone in the community found a clean workaround?

Thanks a lot in advance

Romain