VS Code + Figma MCP Failing to Create Authentication Token

(8 September 2026: This post has been merged into a similar thread by a moderator to keep the discussion in one place.)

Hi!

For approximately over a month now, I have been experiencing connection issues between Visual Studio Code and Figma via MCP.

It used to work perfectly, but suddenly I was no longer able to establish a connection. When starting the MCP server, Visual Studio Code gives me the following response:
 

2026-09-08 09:06:34.389 [info] Connection status: Running

2026-09-08 09:06:35.049 [info] Discovered resource metadata at https://mcp.figma.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource

2026-09-08 09:06:35.049 [info] Using auth server metadata URL: https://api.figma.com

2026-09-08 09:06:35.445 [info] Discovered authorization server metadata at https://api.figma.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server

2026-09-08 09:06:39.391 [info] Waiting for server to respond to initialize request...

2026-09-08 09:06:44.391 [info] Waiting for server to respond to initialize request...

2026-09-08 09:06:48.792 [warning] Error getting token from server metadata: Error: Failed to create authentication token

2026-09-08 09:06:48.793 [info] Connection status: Error 401 status sending message to https://mcp.figma.com/mcp: Unauthorized

The error reference I received is: 7d2e4051-a212-4c46-9ecf-c8b3dc36c863

Could you please help me find a solution?

Same issue in my work account with a SSO auth!

I asked the agent to replay the MCP protocol with the Figma MCP server to identify where it was struggling. I hope this helps.

We’re blocked. Do you have an ETA for the fix?

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With a valid Figma OAuth token in FIGMA_ACCESS_TOKEN, this reproduces the failure without putting the token in curl’s command-line arguments:

Bash

printf 'header = "Authorization: Bearer %s"\n' "$FIGMA_ACCESS_TOKEN" |
curl --config - --silent --show-error --include --max-time 10 \
  https://mcp.figma.com/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -H 'MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28' \
  -H 'Mcp-Method: subscriptions/listen' \
  --data '{
    "jsonrpc":"2.0",
    "id":4,
    "method":"subscriptions/listen",
    "params":{
      "_meta":{
        "io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion":"2026-07-28",
        "io.modelcontextprotocol/clientInfo":{
          "name":"curl-mcp-diagnostic","version":"1.0.0"
        },
        "io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities":{}
      },
      "notifications":{
        "toolsListChanged":true,
        "promptsListChanged":true,
        "resourcesListChanged":true
      }
    }
  }'

Fix direction: Figma needs working modern subscriptions or corrected capability advertising. Client-side, tolerating unavailable subscriptions or using legacy 2025-11-25 is a potential workaround; the legacy discovery path passed. No configuration was changed.