Hey folks! I’ve constantly run into this problem which makes the Figma MCP completely unusable. Tried re-authenticating, reconnecting, and nothing worked.
Clicked “Copy example prompt” on the web and pasted it in Claude Code. But both get_design_context and get_screenshot consistently return "The node ID provided was invalid" for nodes that exist in the file.
Re-authenticating the MCP server does not help.
Figma Debug UUID: 393eaedf-aeaf-4a9c-a1bd-c0f22d227842
Hey
The message The node ID provided was invalid usually means that something changed in the file and the node ID no longer exists or has changed. Can you open your file again, select the layer you want to work with, then copy the node ID from that? This should give the MCP server a node ID for an existing layer. Let me know if you have other questions or get a different message back and we’ll figure out together what is happening.
Hey
The message The node ID provided was invalid usually means that something changed in the file and the node ID no longer exists or has changed. Can you open your file again, select the layer you want to work with, then copy the node ID from that? This should give the MCP server a node ID for an existing layer. Let me know if you have other questions or get a different message back and we’ll figure out together what is happening.
No luck. I already reopened/refreshed the page several times. If I switch to figma-desktop, it seems to work (at least no invalid ID errors), but the call still failed with another error: “Error: An error occurred while using the tool get_design_context”. And then Claude switched to “get_screenshot” tool and this seems to work.
It just feels that it’s so hard to get Figma MCP to work correctly, dunno if engineers are actively monitoring and fixing those customer issues and improving the experience.
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