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Get Canvashand.

Two pieces: the CLI is the MCP server your AI client talks to, and the plugin is the bridge into your open Figma file. Install both once.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://www.canvashand.com/install.sh | sh

Detects your platform, verifies the SHA-256 checksum before installing, and puts canvashand on your PATH. It also puts the Figma plugin in ~/.canvashand/canvashand-plugin. Upgrade both later with canvashand upgrade.

Moving from Figma Go? Run figma-go upgrade once; it moves your plugin folder and client configs to Canvashand.

Manual download

  • macOS Apple siliconcanvashand_darwin_arm64.tar.gz Download
  • macOS Intelcanvashand_darwin_amd64.tar.gz Download
  • Linux x86_64canvashand_linux_amd64.tar.gz Download
  • Linux ARM64canvashand_linux_arm64.tar.gz Download
  • Windows x86_64canvashand_windows_amd64.tar.gz Download
  • Windows ARM64canvashand_windows_arm64.tar.gz Download

Verify your download against checksums.txt. The current version is in version.txt. Windows builds are archived as .tar.gz; extract with tar -xzf, which ships with Windows 10 and later.

macOS: clear the quarantine flag after a browser download.

Safari and Chrome mark downloaded files as quarantined, and macOS stops the binary with no error message. Run this once after installing:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine $(command -v canvashand)

The installer script is not affected — only browser downloads.

Install the plugin in Figma desktop

  1. Unzip canvashand-plugin.zip
  2. In Figma desktop: Plugins → Development → Import plugin from manifest…
  3. Pick canvashand-plugin/manifest.json
  4. Open a file, run Canvashand, sign in, and keep the window open
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Figma desktop only — the browser app cannot import a local manifest. canvashand upgrade keeps ~/.canvashand/canvashand-plugin current; if you use this zip instead, download again and replace the unzipped folder in place.

After installing

Run the setup command from the project where you want Canvashand available. It installs the MCP connection and bundled design skill in that current directory. Then open the plugin in Figma and sign in with the same Google account.

canvashand setup --all --scope project
Full setup guide

Uninstalling

To completely remove the CLI binary and cached plugin files from your system:

rm -f $(command -v canvashand) && rm -rf ~/.canvashand

In Figma, go to Plugins → Development and remove the Canvashand manifest. No background services, persistent daemons, or registry entries are kept.