figma-advanced-troubleshooting

name	figma-advanced-troubleshooting
description	Deep debugging for Figma API issues: network analysis, response inspection, and support escalation. Use when standard troubleshooting fails, diagnosing intermittent failures, or preparing detailed evidence for Figma support. Trigger with phrases like "figma hard bug", "figma mystery error", "figma deep debug", "figma intermittent failure", "figma support ticket".
allowed-tools	Read, Grep, Bash(curl:*), Bash(node:*)
version	1.6.0
license	MIT
author	Jeremy Longshore <[e-mail]>
tags	["saas","figma"]
compatibility	Designed for Claude Code

Figma Advanced Troubleshooting

Overview

Deep debugging techniques for complex Figma REST API issues that resist standard error handling: intermittent failures, unexpected response shapes, rate limit edge cases, and large file timeouts.

Prerequisites

• Access to application logs
• curl with verbose mode for network inspection
• Figma API credentials for testing

Instructions

Step 1: Verbose Request Inspection

# Full HTTP request/response trace for a Figma API call
curl -v -H "X-Figma-Token: ${FIGMA_PAT}" \
  "https://api.figma.com/v1/files/${FIGMA_FILE_KEY}?depth=1" 2>&1 \
  | tee figma-debug-trace.txt

# Extract key diagnostic info:
# - TLS version and cipher
# - Response status and headers
# - Timing breakdown
curl -w "
DNS:        %{time_namelookup}s
Connect:    %{time_connect}s
TLS:        %{time_appconnect}s
TTFB:       %{time_starttransfer}s
Total:      %{time_total}s
Size:       %{size_download} bytes
Status:     %{http_code}
" -s -o /dev/null \
  -H "X-Figma-Token: ${FIGMA_PAT}" \
  "https://api.figma.com/v1/files/${FIGMA_FILE_KEY}?depth=1"

Step 2: Response Shape Validation

// Figma API responses can be unexpectedly shaped when:
// - File is empty or newly created
// - Nodes have been deleted between requests
// - Plugin data is corrupted

function validateFileResponse(data: any): string[] {
  const issues: string[] = [];

  if (!data.document) issues.push();
   (!data.?.?.) issues.();
   ( data. !== ) issues.();
   (!data.) issues.();

  
   (data.) {
     ( [id, node]  .(data.)) {
       (node === ) issues.();
    }
  }

  
   (data.) {
     ( [id, url]  .(data.)) {
       (url === ) issues.();
    }
  }

   issues;
}