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FigCraft Roadmap
Stage: alpha · next: beta, ~28 points and ~200–365 h away (one Opus 5.5 agent; ~40–80 h wall-clock with 5 agents)
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Change: minor (stretch and scatter brushes, pen pressure; text on a path and pattern fills; team libraries on the server and swap library; branches: create, update from main, review and merge; animated GIF fills and TIFF images; Open recent, outlines for the selection and mask outlines: menu breadth 100%; extended collections, variables import/export, gradient stop and variant bindings; feature breadth ~79%; ready ~47%) · Target: Figma Design (desktop app 126.10.7)
FigCraft is a clean-room, open-source, pure-Rust reimplementation of the Figma design workflow,
native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD and in the browser, fully drivable by agents through
the CLI, a JSON control channel and MCP. This page is the one-page summary; agents choosing work
start with docs/gaps.md.
Headline numbers
| Value | Kind | |
|---|---|---|
| Menu/command breadth | 100% (204 / 204) | measured, docs/parity-checklist.md (cargo xtask parity) |
| Feature breadth | ~79% (core editor ~90%) | estimated, docs/target-app-parity.md |
| Ready for real work | ~47% | estimated, same doc (written dimension weights and scores) |
| Essentials user | ~53% | estimated: core features 77.8% × 0.92 launch/stability × 0.92 discoverability × 0.8 opening files people send (method) |
| Mainstream practitioner | ~43% | estimated: weekly areas 66.8% × 0.9 interaction × 0.9 stability × 0.8 file exchange with Figma users (method) |
| Remaining to beta | ~200–365 h one agent | estimated |
| Remaining to full parity | ~373–712 h one agent (~95–165 h wall-clock with 5 agents) | estimated |
Readiness by audience
| Audience | Ready % | Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock hours to ~95% | Work that dominates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full target (ready for real work) | ~47% | ~360–680 h | multiplayer (45–90), localization (60–100), plugins (25–55), the interaction pass (40–60), .fig import (30–60), GPU canvas (30–60), AI (30–60) |
| Mainstream practitioner | ~43% | ~170–315 h | core editor depth incl. .fig import (88–171), the interaction pass (40–60), real-file corpus and platform QA (25–50), .fig export for handing work back (15–30) |
| Essentials user | ~53% | ~85–160 h | .fig import so files people send open (30–60), core tool polish (25–45), interaction pass on the core tools (15–25), stability QA (10–20), onboarding and starter templates (5–10) |
Hours are one agent working sequentially, calibrated from this repo's history (about 1 agent-hour
per 1,000 added lines, 1–2.5 h per feature PR, ~7 h per honest depth point in the polish tail; see
how the hours are calibrated). Each audience's work is a subset of
the next. About 70–80% parallelizes across 4–6 agents on disjoint crates (roughly ÷4 in
wall-clock); the .fig reader, the multiplayer core and a plugin runtime each need one owner, and
native-speaker review, real-file licensing and screen-reader QA need people.
Hours are Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock hours, calibrated from this repo's history: the app was built in
~25 wall-clock hours by 4–6 parallel agents (~110–150 agent-hours, ~1 agent-hour per 1,000 added
lines, a typical feature PR 1–2.5 h). Details and what needs a human:
docs/target-app-parity.md.
Stage
Alpha. Core workflows exist end to end (frames, shapes, vectors, text, auto layout, components
with variants and overrides, styles, variables, prototyping, Dev Mode, SVG/PNG/JPG/PDF), but
FigCraft can't open Figma's own .fig files, has only a preview of multiplayer, and nothing has been checked
against real Figma documents. Ready-for-real-work is ~47%, inside alpha's ~40–75% band, and the alpha gate passes: every daily core workflow (design screens, build a design system, prototype, hand off to developers) works end to end on FigCraft's own files, which save and reopen; review works only asynchronously and .fig import is missing, both beta gaps (alpha gate). Beta needs
~75% and reliable .fig import: the .fig reader (30–60 h), a real-file corpus with measured
fidelity (15–30 h), the interaction pass (25–40 h of the 40–60), core depth to ~80% (40–75 h),
basic multiplayer on the landed core (30–55 h), stability and platform QA (20–40 h), a partial GPU path (15–30 h) and
the localization layer with Figma's own languages (20–35 h).
By dimension
| Dimension | Ready | Hours | Doc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Features (depth) | 57% (core editor 67%) | 68–129 | target-app-parity |
| UI/UX fidelity | 58% | 40–60 | ui-parity |
| File formats | 40% (no .fig) |
30–60 | file-format-parity |
| Collaboration | 13% (core in; live sessions with document sync, cursors and text carets, the browser joins, invite links open the app; a self-hosted server with edit and view links and team libraries; preview) | 49–98 | collaboration-parity |
| Stability | 55% | 20–40 | gaps |
| Performance | 60% | 30–60 | hardware-parity |
| Hardware | 55% | 13–27 | hardware-parity |
| Localization | 10% (English only) | 60–100 | localization-parity |
| Platforms | 75% | 10–20 | hardware-parity |
| Ecosystem / plugins | 20% (own WASM plugins) | 25–55 | gaps |
| AI features | 0% | 30–60 | gaps |
Features
| Area | Breadth | Ready | Hours | Doc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canvas & navigation | 95% | 72% | 3–6 | ui-parity |
| Selection & transform | 95% | 68% | 6–10 | ui-parity |
| Layers panel | 95% | 78% | 2–4 | ui-parity |
| Shapes & vector | 97% | 68% | 1–3 | target-app-parity |
| Paint | 85% | 66% | 5–9 | target-app-parity |
| Strokes | 90% | 72% | 1–3 | target-app-parity |
| Effects | 100% | 72% | 3–6 | target-app-parity |
| Frames, groups, sections, masks | 95% | 75% | 2–4 | target-app-parity |
| Auto layout & constraints | 95% | 68% | 6–12 | auto-layout-parity |
| Text | 85% | 64% | 7–13 | target-app-parity |
| Components & variants | 95% | 68% | 6–12 | components-parity |
| Styles & variables | 92% | 72% | 1–2 | components-parity |
| Prototyping | 88% | 70% | 5–9 | prototyping-parity |
| Import/export | 65% | 35% | 30–60 | file-format-parity |
| Dev Mode / inspect | 80% | 62% | 4–8 | dev-mode-parity |
| Comments, versions, misc | 80% | 58% | 4–8 | collaboration-parity |
| Multiplayer & sharing | 15% | 5% | 45–90 | collaboration-parity |
| Plugins & widgets | 35% | 20% | 25–55 | plugins |
| Team libraries | 70% | 40% | 4–8 | components-parity |
| Figma Draw extras | 80% | 55% | 2–5 | gaps |
| AI features | 0% | 0% | 30–60 | gaps |
Languages
| Language | Code | Strings | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | 100% | full |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-Hans | 0% | none |
| Spanish | es | 0% | none |
| Hindi | hi | 0% | none |
| Arabic | ar | 0% | none |
| French | fr | 0% | none |
| Portuguese | pt | 0% | none |
| Indonesian | id | 0% | none |
| Japanese | ja | 0% | none |
| German | de | 0% | none |
| Korean | ko | 0% | none |
| Vietnamese | vi | 0% | none |
No other languages. Figma ships English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese
(Brazil); FigCraft has no localization layer yet. Document text in any script (bidi, Arabic
shaping, IME) already works. Detail: docs/localization-parity.md.
Upcoming
Ranked; detail and milestones in docs/roadmap.md.
.figimport, best effort, with a synthetic.figcorpus: 30–60 h.- Real-file corpus and measured fidelity: 15–30 h.
- Tool-by-tool interaction pass against Figma: 40–60 h.
- Localization layer, then ja, ko, es, pt-BR, fr, de: 35–55 h.
- Multiplayer (M9): accounts, teams and TLS in the desktop app on top of the live sessions and the standalone server (transport, hosting, invite links that open the app, document sync, presence with remote text carets, per-user undo, reconnect with offline edits, collision-free ids for styles, variables and comments, the browser client,
figcraft-serverwith persistence and share links to edit or view, team libraries on the server landed): 45–90 h.
Progress log
- 2026-10-11 · Team libraries on
figcraft-server(gap 10): Assets ▸ Libraries ▸ Publish to server keeps the file's library on the server under the file (per-asset versions; the server's version is followed); other files enable it by pasting a share link (a view link is enough), get "Library updates available" from a background check and accept with overrides kept; the server counts which files use which components (Show usage,library.usage);library.swapre-points instances, styles and variables to another library by names. Team libraries 70%. - 2026-10-11 · Animated GIF fills (first frame on the canvas and in exports, played in the presenter and the preview, waking the window only for the next frame) and TIFF images (gap 12).
- 2026-10-11 · The last three menu items got commands: File ▸ Open recent (kept in the preferences, missing files greyed, Clear recent), outlines for the selection and mask outlines (gap 21). Menu breadth 203/203.
- 2026-10-11 · Extended variable collections (a library collection's modes and variables in a collection of the file, overridden per mode with reset, following library updates), variables import/export (the REST local variables JSON, merged by name; CSS custom properties), gradient stops and variant properties bound to variables (gap 14).
- 2026-10-11 · Live boolean editing: operands stay editable layers (double-click or Cmd/Ctrl-click selects one, moving, resizing or editing its points redraws the result during the drag with every operand outlined, per-operand operations from the boolean controls, prefix-cached recompute); Design panel arc fields; the shape builder on strokes and open paths; one-sided variable widths (gap 13). Feature breadth ~79%.
- 2026-10-10 · WASM plugins (#101: sandboxed wasmi runtime, manifest permissions, Plugins menu, Run last, Manage, Rust SDK and two examples), docs refresh (#102), the multiplayer core without networking (#103: client-scoped ids, change sets, server ordering and validation, client reconciliation, convergence tests). Menu breadth 200/203; ready for real work ~47%.
- 2026-10-10 · Full re-measure against Figma desktop 126.10.7 under the craftrules progress-docs
standard: ready for real work ~46%, feature breadth ~76%, stage alpha; progress docs split out
(
docs/target-app-parity.md,gaps.md,roadmap.md,architecture.md, the per-area parity docs);docs/parity.mdrenameddocs/parity-checklist.md. - 2026-10-10 · Day 2 (PRs #1–#99): vector edit mode depth (transform box, point snapping, arc handles, shape builder, variable width), text depth (variable fonts, bidi, RTL names, style browser), auto layout nesting and keyboard reordering, slots and library variables, components at scale (2,000 instances), effects fidelity (glass, noise, texture, progressive blur), prototyping (conditionals, expressions, device frames, responsive presentation), REST import of prototypes and variables, SVG import fidelity, PDF print options, Dev Mode (code, annotations, ready for dev, compare changes), comments polish, version history, keyboard shortcut parity, accessibility, retained canvas and 50k-layer performance, no redraws while idle; v0.2.0 released for every platform; multiplayer protocol designed.
- 2026-10-09 · Day 1: foundation (13 crates, layering, command registry, renderer, engine, UI3 frontend, control channel), CLI and MCP, web build, PDF export, packaging, first depth passes on text, components, prototyping and comments.
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Stretch and scatter brushes and pen pressure landed (gap 9): eight brushes drawn in code (four stretched along the path, four scattered with spacing, size, rotation and scatter jitter from a seed) in the stroke settings, drawn everywhere strokes are and flattened by outline stroke; the Pencil records pen pressure as the stroke's width profile (Windows pens, browser styluses; macOS and Linux tablets report none) and can draw with a brush; Figma Draw extras breadth 45% → 65%, ready 30% → 45%, 10–18 h → 5–9 h; Strokes 2–4 h → 1–3 h; Hardware 50% → 55%, 15–30 h → 13–27 h; feature breadth (~79%) and ready for real work (~47%) unchanged at this rounding; full parity ~378–722 h → ~373–712 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Text on a path and pattern fills landed (gap 9): text follows a path or shape (start, side, alignment; edited in place; canvas, PNG, SVG and PDF; SVG <textPath> imports as text on a path) and pattern fills tile a layer (grid or half-shifted rows or columns, scale, spacing, alignment; live as the source changes; SVG <pattern>, PDF tiling patterns); Figma Draw extras breadth 45% → 65%, ready 30% → 45%, 10–18 h → 5–10 h; Text 8–14 h → 7–13 h; feature breadth (~79%) and ready for real work (~47%) unchanged at this rounding; full parity ~380–725 h → ~375–715 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Team libraries on figcraft-server landed (gap 10): a file's library is published to the server under the file and enabled in other files by a share link (per-asset versions; updates noticed in the background and accepted with overrides kept), the server counts which files use which components, and a whole library can be swapped for another by names; Team libraries breadth 40% → 70%, ready 25% → 40%, 10–20 h → 4–8 h; collaboration 12% → 13%, 55–110 h → 49–98 h; feature breadth (~79%) and ready for real work (~47%) unchanged; full parity ~380–725 h → ~375–715 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Branches landed (gap 17): File ▸ Create branch… copies the file into a branch tab that remembers its base; Review and merge shows both sides' changes (layers with Inspect-style property changes, styles, variables, comments) and the conflicts (the same property changed on both sides, or a layer deleted on one side and edited on the other), each resolved for the branch or main; merging is one undo step and archives the branch; Update from main; branches are saved in the .figcraft file. Comments, versions, find, misc breadth 80% → 85%, ready 58% → 60%, 4–8 h → 2–5 h; collaboration 12% → 13%; menu breadth 204/204 (the catalog gained File ▸ Create branch…); feature breadth (~79%) and ready for real work (~47%) unchanged at this rounding; full parity ~380–725 h → ~378–722 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Animated GIF fills and TIFF images (gap 12, without video and HEIC): GIF fills keep the original file, show the first frame on the canvas and in exports and play in the presenter and the preview (frames decoded on first play, at most 500 frames and 128 MB; always looping; the window wakes only for a GIF's next frame); TIFF images open, import, place and paste. Paint breadth 85% → 87%, 5–9 h → 4–7 h; gap 12 6–12 h → 5–10 h (video playback and HEIC left, both needing non-Rust decoders); feature breadth (~79%), ready for real work (~47%) and full parity hours unchanged at this rounding |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | The last three catalogued menu items got commands (gap 21): File ▸ Open recent (recent files kept in the preferences, at most 20, a file that's gone greyed in the menu and dropped when picked, Clear recent), View ▸ Outlines ▸ Show outlines for selection and View ▸ Mask outlines: menu breadth 98.5% → 100% (203/203); Canvas & navigation breadth 95% → 97%, 3–6 h → 2–5 h; feature breadth (~79%), ready for real work (~47%) and full parity hours unchanged at this rounding |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Extended collections, variables import/export and gradient stop and variant property bindings landed (gap 14): Styles & variables breadth 85% → 92%, ready 70% → 72%, 4–8 h → 1–2 h; feature breadth unchanged (~79%); ready for real work unchanged (~47%); full parity ~385–730 h → ~380–725 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Collaboration wording after the standalone server: figcraft-server keeps many files, persisted as a snapshot plus a log of what changed (compacted, checksummed, damaged files skipped and reported), restarts lose nothing confirmed and apps resume where they were; the app publishes its file to it; share links per file let people edit or only view (the server refuses a viewer's edits), are revocable and stored as hashes; TLS comes from a reverse proxy (the desktop app has none of its own yet); percentages and hours unchanged until the next re-measure |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Live boolean editing, Design panel arc fields, the shape builder on strokes and open paths and one-sided variable widths landed (gap 13): Shapes & vector breadth 92% → 97%, ready 66% → 68%, 8–14 h → 1–3 h; feature breadth ~78% → ~79%; ready for real work unchanged (~47%); full parity ~390–745 h → ~385–730 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Collaboration wording after the collaboration polish: styles, variables, collections, modes and comments created in a live session take ids from their creator's id space (concurrent creations no longer overwrite each other; the server checks it), others' text carets and selections show on the canvas, and typing in a layer someone else is typing in says so; percentages unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Wording only: live sessions (#104), then the browser joining them and figcraft:// invite links opening the desktop app; percentages and hours unchanged until the next re-measure |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Merged main after #101–#103: WASM plugins (plugins area 0% → 35% breadth, 20% ready; ecosystem 5% → 20%) and the multiplayer core without networking (multiplayer 5% → 15% breadth, 5% ready; collaboration 8% → 12%); menu breadth 97.5% → 98.5% (200/203); ready for real work ~46% → ~47%; full parity 420–790 h → 390–745 h; beta 210–380 h → 200–365 h. Fixed the stated weight sums (areas 1–16 sum to 94, total 113; percentages were already computed with those) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Readiness by audience with hours to ~95% (full ~400–750, mainstream ~180–330, essentials ~85–160) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added essentials user (~53%) and mainstream practitioner (~43%); ready for real work unchanged at ~46% |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Alpha gate (core workflows) checked under the revised stage rules: passes, stays alpha |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Rewritten to the craftrules progress-docs shape after a full re-measure; rubric, area narrative and inventory moved to docs/target-app-parity.md, gaps to docs/gaps.md, milestones to docs/roadmap.md. Depth ~79% (self-graded, 16 areas) → ready for real work ~46% (all dimensions); full parity 115–195 h → 420–790 h |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Day-2 refreshes after each batch of PRs (depth 58% → 79%) |
| 2026-10-09 | major | First roadmap |