How to localize Figma designs using Figma's AI agent and Lokalise MCP

Figma’s native AI agent, introduced at Config, can connect to Lokalise through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling designers to manage localization conversationally without leaving the design canvas. The approach complements Lokalise’s established Figma plugin: the plugin provides structured, repeatable workflows for exporting text, creating translation keys, assigning translation or review tasks, generating language-specific design copies, and resyncing updates, while the AI-agent connection supports more customized requests such as checking content drift, syncing variables, and monitoring reviews. Both routes use Lokalise’s localization infrastructure, including glossaries, translation memory, AI quality scoring, visual context, and human-review workflows, which aim to address consistency, scale, and quality limitations of translating directly in Figma. Users connect the AI agent by configuring Lokalise’s MCP server URL and authentication in Figma, then can use natural-language prompts or reusable Markdown-based AI skills to standardize tasks such as pushing source text, creating translation tasks, assigning reviewers, detecting changed strings, and pulling approved translations into designs.

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