@design-twin/dtwin 0.0.0-stage → 0.1.0-alpha.0

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-# Temporary Holding Version
+# Design Twin — bridge
 
-This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
+**figma-pull (read CLI) + figma-mcp (write MCP).**
+
+Local, loopback-only bridge between Claude Code and the **Design Twin** Figma plugin.
+The plugin's hidden UI iframe is a WebSocket **client**; these processes are the **server**
+(`127.0.0.1:8787`). Nothing touches the internet. See `../ARCHITECTURE.md` for the full design.
+
+## Install (once)
+The `designtwin` package is not on npm; install it from a clone:
+```
+git clone https://github.com/its-magdy/design-twin.git && cd design-twin
+bun install                     # @modelcontextprotocol/sdk (+ zod), for every workspace
+cd bridge && bun link           # puts `dtwin` in ~/.bun/bin (on your PATH); nothing to build
+```
+It needs [Bun](https://bun.sh/install) ≥ 1.4.2 (`engines.bun`); Node is not supported.
+Or skip the link and run `bun --no-install --no-env-file /path/to/design-twin/bridge/src/figma-pull.ts` wherever
+this README says `dtwin` (those two flags are what the bin's shebang adds: without them, Bun loads the `.env` of the
+project you run it in and may fetch a missing package from the registry).
+The `dtwin` bin's shebang needs an `env` that understands `-S` (GNU coreutils ≥ 8.30, macOS, FreeBSD). Where it
+does not (BusyBox — Alpine and other minimal images), `dtwin` fails before Bun starts; run it as
+`bun --no-install --no-env-file "$(command -v dtwin)" …` (or the path above) instead.
+
+The plugin manifest allows the bridge in **both** dev and published builds
+(`allowedDomains: ws://localhost:{8787,8788,8789}`). Those three ports are the only ones the plugin can dial — `FIGMA_BRIDGE_PORT` is
+validated against them and exits rather than binding a port nothing could ever reach.
+
+> **Re-import the plugin after its manifest changes — required for library reads.** The manifest declares
+> `"permissions": ["teamlibrary"]`, without which Figma denies the team-library APIs. A plugin
+> imported from an older manifest keeps running happily and simply returns **no libraries** — a silent
+> empty result, not an error. If `--list-libraries` / `figma_list_libraries` shows nothing, re-import
+> `figma-plugin/manifest.json` (Plugins → Development → Import plugin from manifest…) first.
+
+**Languages:** the whole bridge is **TypeScript** (ESM) under `src/` — `figma-pull.ts` (read CLI),
+`server-core.ts` (WS core), `figma-mcp.ts` (MCP server), and the modules they share. From a checkout,
+Bun runs it directly with **zero build** (`bun bridge/src/figma-pull.ts …`, `bun bridge/src/figma-mcp.ts`), and the
+package ships the same TypeScript: its `dtwin` bin — what `bun link` puts on your PATH — is `src/figma-pull.ts`,
+whose shebang is `#!/usr/bin/env -S bun --no-install --no-env-file` (so a `.env` or a missing package in the
+project you run it from can neither change its environment nor make Bun fetch a module from the registry;
+`env -S` needs GNU coreutils ≥ 8.30 or a BSD/macOS `env` — on BusyBox, call `bun --no-install --no-env-file` on
+the file yourself, see Install above).
+The WebSocket server is Bun's own (`Bun.serve`), so the only runtime dependencies are the MCP SDK and zod.
+```
+bun run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit (the only check there is no emit step)
+```
+
+### Bridge token (required)
+The bridge authenticates every connection with a shared token — loopback binding alone is not
+access control (a sandboxed browser iframe on any site the user visits sends `Origin: null` and
+could otherwise drive the plugin), so the token is the real gate.
+
+**You do not have to set anything up.** The first time a bridge starts it generates a token, saves it,
+prints it once, and reuses it forever after. Paste it into the plugin's **Bridge token** field (the
+plugin saves it per-user in `clientStorage`) and neither side asks again.
+
+```
+dtwin --token-status    # where it lives, which source wins, its fingerprint — never the token
+dtwin --show-token      # print the token itself (stdout only, so `dtwin --show-token | pbcopy` works)
+dtwin --rotate-token    # replace it — you must then re-paste it into the plugin
+dtwin --forget-token    # delete it; the next bridge start mints a new one
+dtwin --token-file <p>  # read the token from <p> for this run instead of the stored one
+```
+
+**Where it is stored**
+
+| OS | Path |
+|---|---|
+| macOS / Linux | `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/design-twin/bridge-token`, else `~/.config/design-twin/bridge-token` |
+| Windows | `%APPDATA%\design-twin\bridge-token` |
+
+Written `0600` (owner only) in a `0700` directory, atomically. `DESIGNTWIN_CONFIG_DIR` overrides the
+directory outright — for a container, a CI runner, or a test.
+
+**Precedence** — first match wins:
+
+1. `--token-file <path>`
+2. `FIGMA_BRIDGE_TOKEN` (the CI / ephemeral escape hatch)
+3. the saved file
+4. otherwise: generate one, save it, print it once
+
+There is deliberately **no `--token <value>` flag**. Process arguments are world-readable through
+`ps` and `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`, so a value flag would hand the secret to every other user on the
+machine for as long as the command runs. A *path* is not a secret; the file it points at is.
+
+`FIGMA_BRIDGE_TOKEN` works and wins over the file. It is not the recommended setup, for two reasons: exported environment variables
+propagate to every child process and leak into logs, and it has to be re-exported in every shell.
+When both are present `--token-status` says so explicitly — a saved token silently shadowed by an
+env var is otherwise a genuinely confusing state to debug.
+
+**What this protects against, and what it doesn't.** The `0600` file stops *other users* on the
+machine. It does not stop another process running as *you* — only an OS keychain would, and this
+bridge deliberately doesn't use one: `keytar` is archived, its live replacements are native binaries
+with per-platform install friction, and that is disproportionate for a loopback token that grants no
+authority beyond driving a Figma plugin you already have open. If that trade doesn't suit your
+environment, keep the token in your own secret manager and pass `--token-file`.
+
+## Set a project up: `dtwin init`
+
+Run in the root of the project you are **building** (not this repo):
+
+```
+dtwin init             # design/ + design/export/, README, target.json, bridge token, next steps
+dtwin init --mcp       # …and register this MCP server in ./.mcp.json (merged; a broken entry of ours is repaired)
+dtwin init --dry-run   # print what it would do; write nothing, mint no token
+```
+
+It lays out the project as two halves, and the split is the point:
+
+```
+design/
+  export/                  <- dtwin writes ONLY here. rm -rf and re-pull loses nothing.
+    pages/<Page>/<Screen>__<node-id>.json    one screen, any pull shape — carries `sourceFile` (the
+                                              connected Figma file this pull actually talked to; absent
+                                              on a screen pulled before this field existed, never
+                                              guessed from another file's export)
+    pages/index.json                          every screen pulled, each row also carrying `sourceFile`
+    design-system/                            tokens, styles, component catalogs
+    SCHEMA.md                                 scripting quick keys (generated beside the data; same text
+                                              as the top of ir-fields.md; rewritten only when its text
+                                              changes, a SCHEMA.md of your own is never touched)
+    variables.json                            the union of every screen's tokens (merged, never replaced)
+    assets/                                   named after the Figma layer, deduped by content
+  README.md                what dtwin owns vs what you own
+  target.json              the stack (profile: null when nothing was detected — build-screen fills it in)
+  codeconnect.local.json   Figma component -> your code component. HAND-OWNED.
+  plan/ audit/ verify/     decisions and evidence from the skills
+```
+
+The two halves live apart so that "delete design/export/ and re-pull" — the obvious way to recover from
+a bad export — never touches a hand-mapped component map. Projects created before the split keep
+their export directly in `design/`; every command still finds it and `dtwin doctor` says which layout
+it found.
+
+It needs no bridge, plugin or free port. It never overwrites: an existing `target.json`, an existing
+`designtwin` entry in `.mcp.json` (or this server already registered under any other name), or an
+unparseable `.mcp.json` are all left alone and reported. The one exception is an entry of **ours** that
+can no longer start — its `bun` or `figma-mcp.ts` is gone (a deleted clone, a `brew upgrade` that removed
+the versioned bun it named), or it is a Node-era entry (`node …/bridge/dist/figma-mcp.js`), or bun runs it
+without `--no-install --no-env-file`, or it runs the package by name (`bunx @design-twin/dtwin mcp`, which fetches it
+from the registry or Bun's cache at every start): `--mcp` re-points that entry, under its own key and keeping its other
+fields, at this install, and prints `REPAIRED …` with what was wrong (`--dry-run` only prints it). The entry
+names the bun on your PATH when that is the bun running init (`~/.bun/bin/bun`, Homebrew's
+`/opt/homebrew/bin/bun` — paths that survive an upgrade), else the running bun's own path. Run from a
+`bunx` cache (`bunx @design-twin/dtwin init`), `--mcp` refuses to register anything: Bun replaces or deletes that
+cache on its own, so install the package for good first. The server is registered as `designtwin`,
+never `figma` — that is the name Figma's own MCP server usually has, and Claude Code loads one server
+per name, so the two sit side by side. `--mcp` is
+opt-in because a registered MCP server holds port 8787 for as long as Claude Code runs (`dtwin`
+commands still work — they route through it, see "One bridge, shared" below). The two
+steps it cannot do — importing the plugin into Figma and pasting the token — it prints.
+
+## Commands at a glance
+
+```
+dtwin list                        # what is in the file: pages + top-level frames, with ids
+dtwin pull --page Screens  # export ONE page into ./design/export
+dtwin screenshot 12:34            # a reference PNG of one node
+dtwin doctor                      # something not working? start here
+dtwin seed                        # components.json from the Code Connect files in your code (offline)
+```
+
+Every command is shorthand for a flag, and **the flags keep working unchanged** — the rest of this
+README documents the flags, and either spelling is fine everywhere:
+
+| Command | Same as |
+|---|---|
+| `dtwin pull [outDir] [flags]` | `dtwin [outDir] [flags]` |
+| `dtwin list` · `list pages` · `list libraries` · `list clients` | `--list` · `--list-pages` · `--list-libraries` · `--list-clients` |
+| `dtwin list children <id\|url>` | `--children <id\|url>` |
+| `dtwin screenshot <id\|url> [--scale N]` | `--screenshot <id\|url>` |
+| `dtwin whoami` | `--whoami` |
+| `dtwin serve` · `stop` · `status` | `--serve` · `--stop` · `--daemon-status` |
+| `dtwin token` · `token show` · `token rotate` · `token forget` | `--token-status` · `--show-token` · `--rotate-token` · `--forget-token` |
+| `dtwin help` | `--help` |
+| `dtwin doctor` · `dtwin init` · `dtwin mcp` · `dtwin seed` | their own entry points (no flag form) |
+
+Every verb has its own page: `dtwin <verb> --help` (e.g. `dtwin whoami --help`, `dtwin serve --help`) prints
+that verb's flags and exits without starting a bridge. `outDir` is **positional** (`dtwin pull my-dir`):
+`--out` / `-o` / `--output` / `--out-dir` / `--dir` are refused with a hint saying so. The port is chosen
+only by the `FIGMA_BRIDGE_PORT` environment variable (8787, 8788 or 8789; there is no `--port` flag, and
+`DTWIN_PORT` is not read — `dtwin` and `doctor` warn when it is set).
+
+A command is only recognised as the **first** argument, so `dtwin my-dir` still means "pull into
+`./my-dir`". For an output directory spelled like a command, write `dtwin pull list` or `dtwin ./list`.
+With no outDir the export lands in `design/export` — the only place doctor, cross-check, audit and
+build-screen read. Never pull into bare `design`: that writes a second, parallel export tree beside
+`design/export/` (dtwin warns when it sees one).
+
+## Seed the component map from Code Connect: `dtwin seed`
+
+If the project you are building already has Code Connect files, they are the Figma-component →
+code-component map you would otherwise write by hand. `dtwin seed` reads them — template files
+(`// url=` + `// component=` + `// source=` headers), `figma.connect(...)` calls, and `@FigmaConnect`
+(SwiftUI/Compose) — and fills `components.json`:
+
+```
+dtwin seed                     # scan . and merge into design/components.json
+dtwin seed src design          # [codeRoot] [outDir]
+dtwin seed --dry-run           # scan and report what it would add; write nothing
+```
+
+It only reads source files: no bridge, plugin or token, and never the network. The merge is
+fill-missing-only — an existing entry's hand-authored fields are never overwritten — and each new
+entry leaves `import` and `props` for you to fill in. A mapping that carries only a node id (no
+component name) is named through `<outDir>/design-system.json`, so export the design system first;
+without it such mappings are skipped and the run says so. In a clone of this repo the same script
+also runs directly: `bun bridge/src/seed-components.ts [codeRoot] [outDir] [--dry-run]`.
+
+## Something not working: `dtwin doctor`
+
+Every failure looks the same from outside — a pull that waits, then times out. `doctor` tells the
+causes apart, marks each check ✓ / ! / ✗, and gives the one next step:
+
+```
+dtwin doctor            # exit code 1 only if a check is ✗ (a note, !, is not a failure)
+dtwin doctor --wait 30  # wait longer for the plugin to connect (default 10s; it retries every second)
+dtwin doctor --json     # { ok, checks: [{ id, title, status, detail, next, skipped }] }
+```
+
+`ok` is false when a check is ✗ **or** `skipped` (a check that could not run — the plugin probe while something
+else holds the port, or before a token exists — is a ! marked `skipped: true`, since nothing it would have verified was).
+
+Once a plugin connects, the probe can run up to ~6.5 s past `--wait`: the bridge's settle (so a second
+open file is seen), then each file's `hello` (so it is named).
+
+1. **Bun** version against this package's `engines.bun` (≥ 1.4.2).
+2. **Bridge token** — saved or not, where, loose file permissions, and whether `FIGMA_BRIDGE_TOKEN` is
+   shadowing the saved one. Fingerprint only, never the token.
+3. **Daemon** — running or not, and which files are connected to it (on Windows: a note that it is not
+   supported there, and why).
+4. **Port** (`FIGMA_BRIDGE_PORT`, one of 8787/8788/8789) — free, held by the daemon, held by another
+   bridge (almost always the MCP server), or held by something unrelated.
+5. **Figma plugin** — can it actually connect? If a plugin is running with a *different* token, doctor
+   says so with both fingerprints, instead of the "nothing connected" that case otherwise looks like.
+6. **Project** (the current directory) — `design/`, `design/target.json` and the profile build-screen will use
+   (bundled or custom, plus the project's own `design/profile.md` when it exists), which export LAYOUT it
+   found, the age of the last export (its newest stamp; stale past 24h), **which Figma files that export mixes**, the component map
+   (`design/codeconnect.local.json`, or the older repo-root location), and the `.mcp.json`
+   registration (a legacy `figma` key still works; new setups use `designtwin`). A registered entry that
+   cannot start — its command or `figma-mcp.ts` missing, Node-shaped (`node`, a `bridge/dist` script), bun
+   without `--no-install --no-env-file`, a script in a `bunx` cache, or the package run by name
+   (`bunx @design-twin/dtwin mcp`) — is a ✗ naming `dtwin init --mcp`,
+   which repairs it. `DT_TEST_EPHEMERAL_PORT` (a test-only seam) set in the environment is a note too.
+
+   The "which Figma files" line exists because one stamp describes exactly one file, and on a project
+   whose screens came from a different Figma file than its design system it would name the wrong one.
+   doctor lists every source with its own age — the screens of each Figma file, the design system — and
+   when they are more than one Figma file it points at `/designtwin:audit-design`, whose cross-file check
+   proves whether the screens and the design system really are the same system. `figma_status`'s
+   `snapshot` is the same verdict (bridge/src/export-verdict.ts), so the two never disagree.
+
+It changes nothing: no token is created, no file written. Check 5 opens a bridge for a few seconds,
+so it only runs when the port is free **and** a token already exists; when a daemon is up doctor asks
+the daemon instead, and when something else holds the port it identifies the holder with a plain HTTP
+request (a bridge answers `426`) rather than a WebSocket — a WebSocket client would be registered as a
+plugin and disturb whoever owns that bridge.
+
+## Read: figma-pull (CLI) — recommended for bulk extraction
+
+Every direct run ends with `done in 12.4s — waited 9.8s for the plugin to connect · export 2.4s · write 0.2s`
+(or `via the running daemon · export (incl. any wait for the plugin) 2.6s` when a daemon answered: the
+daemon waits for a not-yet-connected plugin inside the request, so that wait is in the export figure). A long "waited" figure is the plugin
+re-dialling a fresh one-shot bridge (it retries every second, one port at a time, slower in a background window), not the export
+itself; the line says so past 5 s. `dtwin serve` in another terminal keeps one bridge open and the plugin
+connected, so every later command skips that wait.
+
+`dtwin help` (or `--help` / `-h`) prints the quick start, the command table and every flag below, and
+exits — no bridge is started, no token minted.
+An unknown or mistyped flag is an error with a suggestion (`--lst` → "did you mean --list?"), never
+silently ignored — a typo must never fall through to a full pull.
+
+A full pull writes `design/export/design-system.json` as a slim MANIFEST (`exportedAt`/`file`/`colorProfile`,
+`files` pointers, `counts`) over the catalog split under `design/export/design-system/`, one file per Figma
+concept: `tokens.json` (variable collections → modes → variables), one file per style type —
+`styles.paint.json`/`styles.text.json`/`styles.effect.json`/`styles.grid.json`/`styles.animation.json` — (the
+separate Paint/Text/Effect/Grid style system, plus custom animation styles), `components.local.json` (components that are real nodes in this
+file — a `COMPONENT_SET`'s heavy per-variant node trees, or a standalone `COMPONENT`'s own node tree,
+are NOT inlined here; they live in a sibling `design-system/components/<name>__<id>.json`, pointed at
+by that entry's `variantsFile`/`nodeFile`, opt-in via `--variant-visuals`; see `design-to-code/get-component.ts`
+below), `components.library.json` (`remote: true` —
+consumed from a published library, recovered from instances, props possibly inferred) and
+`hygiene.json` (the lint report). Every part repeats the
+`exportedAt` stamp, so `design-to-code/` reads freshness off whichever part it is handed. The split files sit
+in a subdirectory because `design/tokens.json` and `design/components.json` are your
+hand-authored, non-regenerable config maps.
+
+```
+# from the repo root, with the Figma file open + plugin running:
+dtwin pull                    # design-system.json + design-system/ + CURRENT-page frames + assets/
+dtwin pull --all-pages        # like above, but frame trees from EVERY page
+dtwin pull --selection        # just the current selection
+dtwin pull --design-system    # ONLY design-system.json + design-system/ — no page
+                                                   # walk, no assets/ (the cheap "tokens only" pull)
+dtwin pull --as-library "Acme UI"    # the COMPLETE catalog of a LIBRARY file — run this
+                                                   # with the LIBRARY open, not the file that uses it
+dtwin pull --node <id>        # ONE node, fully exported (properties + assets) —
+                                                   # see "--node <id>" below
+```
+**Recommended workflow — discover, then scope.** Never open with a whole-file pull. Work down from
+cheap questions to expensive ones, which is also what Figma's own agent guidance recommends
+(discover first, then scope):
+```
+dtwin whoami                   # 0. (optional) which file am I actually connected to?
+dtwin list pages               # 1. page NAMES only (near-free — loads no page)
+dtwin list                     # 2. WHERE is what — pages + top-level layers (ids)
+dtwin list children <id>       # 3. peek inside one frame / SECTION
+dtwin pull --node <id>         # 4. pull just that ONE node, real export + its own assets
+dtwin pull --page <id>         # 4b. (only for a whole page)
+dtwin screenshot <id>          # 5. (optional) visually check ONE component after generating code for it
+```
+`dtwin list libraries` is a side step, not part of that order (the slowest read): run it to learn which
+library owns a token, or before an `--as-library` pull.
+(The flag spellings — `--whoami`, `--list-libraries`, `--list-pages`, `--list`, `--children`,
+`--screenshot` — are the same commands; the sections below are titled by flag.)
+
+### `--node <id>` — one node, fully exported
+
+```
+dtwin pull --node 123:456                            # -> design/export/pages/<Page>/<Name>__123_456.json
+dtwin pull --node "https://figma.com/design/KEY/App?node-id=123-456"   # a pasted link works too
+```
+
+A REAL export scoped to exactly one node — the CLI twin of the MCP `figma_export_url` tool ("paste a
+link and ask about it," see below). It runs the full `serialize()` walk on that node's subtree and
+exports the assets found inside it, exactly as a `--page` pull would for that subtree, just rooted
+lower. Accepts a bare id, dash form, percent-encoded id, a nested-instance path, or a whole figma.com
+URL — the same lenient parsing `--children`/`--screenshot` use.
+
+Don't confuse it with its two neighbors:
+- `--children <id>` peeks at one node's **direct children only** — no recursion, no assets, for
+  deciding whether to pull further. Each row has `childCount`; rows sharing name + size also get a
+  `title` (the first visible text), and the listing warns once per such group ("N children share name
+  … and size … — told apart by `title`/`childCount`"). When the titles match too, those rows also get
+  `distinctTexts` (up to 3 texts that row shows and its twins do not); the listing shares one budget of
+  node reads, and a group with a row it runs out on gets none, with one warning naming them. When a row has
+  no `distinctTexts`, screenshot each candidate.
+- `--screenshot <id>` renders a **PNG only** — skips `serialize()` and the asset walk entirely, for
+  visual validation after you've already generated code.
+- `--node <id>` is the one that actually **exports** — real node tree + real assets, just scoped
+  smaller than a whole page.
+
+It is a SCOPE flag like `--page`/`--selection`/`--all-pages`, so it's mutually exclusive with them,
+and unlike `--screenshot` it composes with read options (`--css`, `--measurements`, etc.) since it
+does a real walk.
+
+It files into the **same `pages/` tree** a `--page` pull writes, so nothing downstream has to know
+which pull produced a file:
+
+```
+design/export/pages/<Page>/<Name>__<node-id>.json        the screen tree
+design/export/pages/<Page>/<Name>__<node-id>.vars.json   exactly the variables THIS screen binds
+design/export/pages/<Page>/<Name>__<node-id>.assets.json its assets, with content hashes,
+                                                         plus duplicates / monochrome / heavy; rows carry
+                                                         name / owner / context / usedBy (search those,
+                                                         not file names)
+design/export/pages/<Page>/index.json                    merged, one row per screen pulled
+design/export/pages/index.json                           merged, one row per page
+design/export/variables.json                             the UNION of every screen's slice
+design/export/assets/                                    shared, deduped by content
+```
+
+A pull prints these asset lines: `warn  N node(s) fell back to raw geometry …` (any fallback, naming the
+nodes), `warn  … too heavy to inline` (or "a raster image embedded in an SVG shell" when it is one), and
+`info  N hidden graphic(s) not exported (assetSkipped:"hidden"); M reuse a visible twin's file` and
+`info  N node(s) hidden (themselves or under a hidden ancestor) kept in the tree (conditional UI)` (only
+the ones hidden themselves carry `hidden:true`). A root that is hidden itself or under a
+hidden ancestor is exported with a warning (its graphics are not rendered, its reference may be blank).
+A file a hidden node reuses from another screen is listed in this screen's `.assets.json` with
+`reusedFrom`.
+`duplicates` is found by a tolerant compare (def ids and numbers within ±0.01 ignored — except an
+embedded image's scale/offset/tile, the numbers of a transform on `<use>`/`<image>` and of a `<pattern>`'s
+x/y/width/height, compared relatively, within 1 %), so the same artwork re-exported under another name
+is one file.
+
+Three consequences worth knowing:
+
+- **The node id is in the filename**, because a frame NAME does not identify a frame: two frames both
+  called `Popup` would otherwise overwrite each other, and a frame whose name ends in a space files as
+  `Name___<id>.json`, which looks like a typo. Read `pages/index.json` — it carries each screen's real
+  name, page, node id, size and the paths to all three files — rather than reconstructing a filename.
+- **`variables.json` MERGES.** Each pull's slice is unioned in, keyed on each variable's Figma key, so
+  pulling screen B never deletes screen A's tokens — replacing the file would leave A's theme
+  unresolvable, silently, while the build still rendered from the raw hex beside every binding. The raw
+  per-pull slice is kept verbatim as the screen's `.vars.json`. When two screens resolve one variable
+  differently the newest wins and the disagreement is recorded under `_conflicts` and in `hygiene`.
+  It holds only the variables bound by the pulled nodes — to find the variable behind a library colour,
+  look it up on the library catalog: `bun --no-install --no-env-file <scripts>/tokens.js <library>/tokens.json --lookup <hex>` (`ffbc1c`, or a quoted `'#ffbc1c'`:
+  an unquoted `#` starts a shell comment).
+- **Assets are named after their Figma layer and deduped by content.** `icons/linear/arrow-down` lands
+  as `arrow-down.svg`; the same artwork reached through several instance paths is one file carrying
+  every node id that resolved to it; two different icons whose leaf names collide are separated by a
+  short content hash, never by overwriting.
+
+MCP twin: `figma_export_url` (also accepts a bare node id, not just a URL).
+
+### `--screenshot <id>` — an on-demand PNG of one node
+
+```
+dtwin --screenshot 123:456                # writes design/export/assets/123_456_ref.png — the same
+                                          # path a later --node pull of that frame writes its own
+                                          # reference to, so there is never a second copy
+dtwin --screenshot 123:456 --scale 0.25   # override the default (auto, capped at 2048px on the longest side);
+                                          # writes assets/123_456_shot@0.25x.png, never the reference's name
+```
+
+Every export already carries **one** whole-frame reference PNG per exported root (`reference` in the
+tree), for the codegen agent to self-check the overall page against. That's a weak validation target
+for a **dense** screen, though — eyeballing one small component inside a huge flat image doesn't scale.
+`--screenshot` is the single-node counterpart: pull it for *one* component/instance you just generated
+code for, after `--list`/`--children` gave you its id, and compare it directly.
+
+It is cheap next to a real export — it skips `serialize()` and the recursive asset walk entirely, so
+`exportAsync` on the node itself is the only Plugin-API cost — but unlike `--list`/`--children` it
+**writes a file** (it's a tiny export, not a structural index), so it can't be combined with a scope
+flag, another index command, or a read option (`--css` etc. need a node walk this skips).
+
+This mirrors Figma's own Dev Mode MCP server: `get_screenshot` is scoped to a single node/selection,
+called **on demand** after `get_metadata`, specifically for post-generation visual validation — not a
+bulk pre-render pass over every node, which would pay the same per-node cost `--no-assets` exists to
+avoid, for a much bigger payload (PNG > structural JSON). If you want a component's reference image
+without picking through instances one at a time, dedupe by the component's own id (or its
+`mainComponent`) rather than pulling every instance of it.
+
+It prints `{id, name, type, w, h, scale, png:{w,h}, reference}` on stdout: `w`/`h` are the node's size, `scale`
+the factor the plugin rendered at, `png` the written file's pixel size (keys that do not apply are omitted).
+
+MCP twin: `figma_screenshot`.
+
+### `--list-clients` / `--client` — working with two Figma files at once
+```
+dtwin --list-clients
+```
+The bridge accepts **one connection per open Figma file**, so a design file and the library it draws
+on can both be connected. Each plugin announces itself on connect (and on every reconnect), so the
+listing shows what you can address:
+
+```
+2 Figma files connected:
+
+  c1    "App — Base"
+        page "Home" · fileKey KEYBASE · up 12m
+  c2    "Acme UI Library"
+        page "Tokens" · no fileKey (private-plugin API not in effect) · up 3m
+
+Address one with --client <connId | fileKey | part of the file name>, e.g. --client "App".
+```
+
+**`c1`/`c2` are display labels, not stable ids.** They are assigned in *reconnect order* for the
+current bridge's lifetime — whichever plugin's WebSocket lands first becomes `c1`. Two runs of the
+same `--client c1` can select **different Figma files** if the bridge restarted (no `dtwin serve`
+daemon) and the reconnect race went the other way between runs. Prefer the **file name**
+(a substring match, e.g. `--client "App"`) or the **fileKey** when one is available — both are stable
+across restarts; `c1`/`c2` are only for telling two *currently open* files apart in one sitting, exactly
+like `--list-clients`' own listing does. Under a running `dtwin serve` daemon, connIds are assigned
+once per plugin connection and stay stable until that plugin's window disconnects/reconnects.
+
+A named target (file name or fileKey) is **waited for**: each open plugin window redials on its own
+clock (every second, one of the three allowed ports at a time), so right after a bridge starts only one of two open files may be connected yet. Once a
+first plugin is connected, `dtwin` gives the named file up to 15 s more (or `--timeout`, whichever is
+shorter) to land before resolving the name; a name that never matches then fails with the list of
+what *is* connected. A bare `c<N>` never waits for its file. The MCP `client` argument gets the same
+wait on every tool: holding the bridge, up to 15 s for a first plugin to connect and then up to 15 s
+more for the name; routed through a daemon, the same two windows, spent by the daemon's bridge.
+
+**A fresh bridge settles before it guesses.** For 3.5 s after a bridge's first plugin connects (one
+walk of the three ports at a redial a second, plus a moment for the next window's hello), a command
+with **no** `--client`, or one whose `--client` is a file name — whole or partial: names repeat (two `Untitled`) and a name matches as
+a substring (`App` also matches `App (Copy)`) — is held: a second open file may still be redialling,
+and without it the command would silently go to whichever file landed first instead of being refused
+as ambiguous. The hold outlasts a shorter `--timeout`, which only bounds how long to wait for a first
+plugin. A connId or fileKey is routed at once. A bridge that has had its plugins connected for 3.5 s
+pays nothing — a `dtwin serve` daemon, a running MCP session — until one of them leaves while others
+stay: that window is probably redialling, so the 3.5 s start again. Wherever a command waits like this
+— the one-shot CLI's own bridge, a daemon request that carries a connect window, any bridge still
+settling — a file name, no `--client` and `--list-clients` are also held, within the connect window (or
+the settle, when that ends later), while another connected window has not yet said which file it is
+(usually a few milliseconds; 3 s per window that never says), so a
+refusal or a listing names that file instead of showing it as unidentified; a window that never says is
+listed unidentified. Whatever the settle and those holds add up to, the wait ends at most 3 s past the
+longer of the settle and its window (the window capped at 15 s), counted from when a plugin went live —
+a window that keeps connecting and dropping without saying which file it is cannot hold a command.
+`--list-clients` on its own bridge waits the same 3.5 s, so it lists every window that redialled in
+that time; a settled MCP session or `dtwin serve` daemon reads its list directly, with no wait. A window
+that redials more slowly (Figma throttles a background window's timers) can still land after that;
+with two files open, address the one you mean.
+
+`--client` is an **address**, not a scope — it composes with every other flag:
+```
+dtwin design/base --client "Marketing" --page 12:34
+dtwin design/lib  --client "Acme UI" --as-library "Acme UI"
+```
+Give each file its own output directory, as above, and their exports never collide.
+
+**With one file connected, omit it** — nothing changes from the single-file workflow. **With several,
+omitting it is an error** that lists your choices:
+
+```
+2 Figma files are connected to the bridge — say which one to use.
+  c1  "App — Base"  fileKey KEYBASE
+  c2  "Acme UI Library"
+Pass the connId, the fileKey, or part of the file name (CLI: --client <id|name>; MCP: client: "<id|name>").
+```
+
+That refusal is deliberate. An export pulled from the wrong file is indistinguishable from a correct
+one — it writes the same shape of JSON to the same directory and reports success — so the bridge
+refuses rather than picking, the same call `adb` makes with "more than one device".
+
+MCP twins: `figma_list_clients`, plus a `client` argument on every tool. `figma_status` lists the
+roster instead of failing when several are connected.
+
+### `--whoami` — who is connected (and can two files connect at once?)
+```
+dtwin --whoami
+```
+Prints both halves of the connection (`connection` is the **addressed** file's socket — the one `--client`
+picked — not whichever connected first): what the **plugin** says it is (`instanceId` minted per plugin
+run, `file`, `page`, and whether `figma.fileKey` is available) and what the **socket** did
+(`connId`, uptime, `connectionsThisRun`, `takeovers`).
+
+Use `--list-clients` to see *which* files are connected; use `--whoami` to interrogate **one** of them
+(`--client` selects it). What the fields tell you:
+
+| What you see | What it means |
+| --- | --- |
+| `instanceId` **changed** between two calls addressing the *same* file | Figma tore down and re-ran the plugin runtime. The socket survived and the `connId` is unchanged — only the runtime restarted (see the note below) |
+| `fileKeyAvailable: false` | `figma.fileKey` is gated to private plugins, so this file is addressed by `connId` or name instead. Normal for a locally-imported plugin |
+| `takeovers` > 0 | Never happens — connections coexist, so the field is always `0`. It stays so a reader of this field sees `0` rather than the key vanishing |
+
+> **Runtime teardown.** At least one comparable project ([`southleft/figma-console-mcp#67`](https://github.com/southleft/figma-console-mcp/issues/67))
+> reports Figma destroying the plugin's JS execution context every 1–3 minutes regardless of focus.
+> This repo's own live runs contradict that (a 25-page `--all-pages` export ran >15 min to
+> completion — hence `TIMEOUTS.exportAll`), so it may be setup-specific. If you plan to leave a
+> connection **idle** while working in another file, check it with `--whoami` first: a changed
+> `instanceId` is the symptom. Related and better attested: an *occluded* Figma window is fine, a
+> **minimized** one gets its renderer suspended.
+
+> **Background tab.** Measured live (one page through the daemon): with the exporting
+> file's tab in front, 31–38 progress ticks and ~2,500 nodes per 10 s; with another file's tab in
+> front, 3–5 ticks and ~15 nodes per 10 s — about 100× slower; then 27 ticks in the first 10 s after
+> switching back and the normal 31–38 from the second window on. The export completes either way,
+> but a `--timeout` sized for the foreground fires. Figma Desktop is an Electron app; Electron's
+> `backgroundThrottling` (default `true`) is "Whether to throttle animations and timers when the
+> page becomes background", and the plugin's walk advances on Figma API awaits, so it is the tab
+> that is throttled. Keep the exporting file's tab in front.
+
+MCP twin: `figma_whoami`.
+
+### `--list-libraries` — which library owns a token
+```
+dtwin --list-libraries
+```
+Prints an aligned table of the libraries this file uses — the local file's own published assets plus
+every **enabled** team library — with each one's variable collections (and variable counts) and how
+many of its components this file uses. It's the library-scoped sibling of `--list`: no tree export, no node
+properties, no assets, same `--timeout`, prints to stdout and writes nothing — but the slowest read there
+is, a few seconds up to ~15 s (about 2 s on a file with no libraries enabled), because it walks every
+instance in the file and makes one Figma call per enabled library variable collection.
+
+**Waiting for the plugin.** Every command that needs Figma first waits for the plugin to connect:
+`--timeout <seconds>` bounds that wait as well as the command itself. Without the flag it is 10
+minutes at a terminal and 90 seconds when stderr is not a TTY (an agent's shell, CI) — then
+`no Figma plugin connected within Ns`, exit 1, with the next step. A first word that is not a verb
+but is an obvious guess at one (`dtwin export`, `dtwin ls`, `dtwin check`) is refused with the real
+verb instead of being taken as an output folder; `dtwin pull export` still exports into `./export`.
+`--timeout` takes at most 2147483 seconds (about 24 days, the longest delay one JavaScript timer holds);
+`Infinity`, `0`, a negative or a larger number is refused with a usage error rather than run as an
+export that times out at once.
+
+Three honest limits, because they change what the numbers mean:
+- **Component counts are usage-derived.** Figma exposes **no API to enumerate a library's contents**,
+  so the count is "components of that library used in *this* file", not the library's size.
+- **Libraries can only be enabled from the Figma UI** (Assets panel → Libraries) — no API can enable
+  one. An export is therefore silently scoped to whatever was enabled at export time; if a component
+  looks unresolved, an unenabled library is the first thing to check.
+- **An empty result is normal**, not a failure: free plans don't expose library variable collections,
+  and a file with no library enabled genuinely has none. The output says so rather than printing an
+  empty table. It is also what a **stale plugin** looks like — see the re-import callout above.
+
+### `--as-library <name>` — the COMPLETE catalog of one library
+
+```
+# open the LIBRARY file in Figma (not the design file that consumes it), then:
+dtwin pull --as-library "Acme UI"     # -> design/export/libraries/<slug>-<fileKey8>/
+```
+
+`--list-libraries` tells you a library exists and how many variables its collections hold.
+`--as-library` gets you the **values**: every variable with its full per-mode values, every paint /
+text / effect / grid style, and every component with its **real** property definitions. Output lands
+in `design/export/libraries/<slug>-<fileKey8>/` and **never touches `design-system/`** — the two catalogs
+describe different Figma files and answer different questions.
+
+**Why it must run inside the library file.** From a consuming file the Plugin API simply does not have
+this data: `getVariablesInLibraryCollectionAsync` returns `name`/`key`/`resolvedType` with **no
+values**, and there is no API to enumerate a library's components at all. Inside the library every one
+of those objects is *local*, so the ordinary local reads return the whole thing — no extra permissions,
+no paid plan, no import step.
+
+> **Deliberately not used: `importVariableByKeyAsync`.** It *would* resolve library values from a
+> consuming file, and it is the obvious-looking answer. It is also a **write**: the `import*ByKeyAsync`
+> family materialises into the current document (the plugin typings say exactly that of its sibling
+> `importShaderAsync`), which is why those calls fail in read-only/Dev Mode. Using it here would make a
+> read-plane command subscribe your file to hundreds of variables. This path reads and writes nothing.
+
+**Four honest limits**, because they change what the output means:
+1. **`publish` is per-object, and only meaningful here.** Each variable/style/component carries
+   `publish: current | changed | unpublished` (`current` = published and in sync, `changed` =
+   published but edited since, `unpublished` = never published). Figma answers `UNPUBLISHED` for
+   *everything* when asked from a consuming file or a branch, so the normal `--design-system` pull
+   deliberately omits the field rather than emit a confident wrong answer.
+2. **What the last publish contained cannot be listed.** `publish` describes each *local* object's
+   relationship to the library. A component deleted here but still live in the published library is
+   invisible to any API — so this is the library file's **current state**, not a diff of what
+   consumers see.
+3. **Nothing is filtered for you.** Unpublished drafts are exported and *labelled*, never dropped:
+   `hiddenFromPublishing` is forward-looking publish config, not publish state, so filtering on it
+   would be wrong in both directions.
+4. **One library per run.** A library is a file, so exporting several means running this once per
+   library file. Rows accumulate in `design/export/libraries/index.json` — a second library is added, never
+   substituted. A variable that aliases into a *different* library stays an unresolved reference until
+   that library is exported too.
+
+**Re-running is safe.** Every file is rewritten in place with a fresh stamp, and the directory is keyed
+on `fileKey` (which survives a rename) so a renamed library keeps its directory instead of forking.
+Files a previous export produced and this one did not are **reported as `STALE:`, never deleted** — a
+read command does not remove files it did not create.
+
+**How the two catalogs fit together.** They stay separate and join on `key` (durable cross-file
+identity, present on variables, collections, styles and components — names collide across libraries):
+
+| | `design/export/design-system/` | `design/export/libraries/<lib>/` |
+|---|---|---|
+| Which file | the design file you build screens from | one library file |
+| Variables | the subset your screens reference | **all**, full per-mode values |
+| Components | usage-derived; props *inferred* from instances present | **all**, real property definitions |
+| Styles | local only | **all**, with `key` |
+| Use it for | **codegen** — emit only what is used | **lookup/enrichment** — resolve what exists |
+
+Emit CSS from the design file's catalog, not the library's, or you ship every unused primitive in the
+library. The library catalog is what you consult to answer "what else does this token family offer?"
+and "what props does this component *really* take?".
+
+Because the layout matches `design-system/`, existing tooling runs on it unchanged:
+```
+bun design-to-code/tokens.ts design/export/libraries/acme-kit-ab12cd34/tokens.json ./out   # DTCG + CSS, no special-casing
+```
+The generated `tokens.css` / `theme.css` start with a provenance line (`designtwin-source: <dir>/<input> · <n>
+variables · sha256 <12>`); `tokens.js <input> --check <file>` exits 0 when the file is current, 1 when the
+input has changed since (stale), 2 when the file has no such line (regenerate once) or names a different source file (pass that one; a design-system `tokens.json` and a library's are told apart by their parent directory) or the command line is wrong (usage errors are 2 there, never 1). `--lookup <hex>`
+(repeatable; `ffbc1c` or a quoted `'#ffbc1c'`) lists the COLOR variables with that exact value, per mode, following aliases.
+
+Scope note: the **design system** (variables, styles, component catalog) always spans the whole
+file. **Frame trees** default to the current page; `--all-pages` walks every page (each screen is
+tagged with its `page` name). All-pages can be large — the CLI is the right tool for it because it
+streams to disk, not into the context window. `--design-system` narrows the OTHER way: it skips the
+frame walk (and therefore the assets a walk would export) and writes only `design-system.json` +
+`design-system/` — tokens, styles, local + library components, hygiene. One honest limit: on a file
+that CONSUMES a library, `--design-system` returns that file's OWN tokens, styles and components plus only
+the library (remote) variables something in the file references (a page pull adds the ones its nodes
+bind) — never the library's catalog. For that, open the LIBRARY file and run `--as-library "<name>"`
+(CLI only); the tell is `remote: true` on the variables and `hygiene.json`'s count line. It shares
+`--selection`/`--all-pages`/`--page`/`--as-library`'s scope slot (pass only one) and, like `--list`/`--list-libraries`,
+refuses the read-option flags (`--css`/`--measurements`/…) since there is no node walk for them to apply to.
+It waits for the plugin to connect, pulls, writes files to `design/`, and exits. The agent then
+Reads those files — big payloads live on disk, not in the context window.
+
+**`visuals`.** Every catalogued component/variant carries its own paint under `visuals` on each
+`components.local.json` entry: `{ fills, strokes, effects, radius, opacity, blendMode }` — the same
+fields `ComponentNode`/`ComponentSetNode` carry as any other node. This is always on, not a flag:
+unlike `--css`/`--measurements`/asset export, these six are plain synchronous property reads (Figma's
+Plugin API only marks the genuinely expensive calls `Async` — `getCSSAsync`, `exportAsync` — and
+fills/strokes/effects/cornerRadius/opacity/blendMode aren't among them), so there's no walk-avoiding
+reason to gate them the way `--design-system` gates a page walk. **Two honest limits:**
+1. It's the component's own base look — a specific instance's overrides elsewhere in the file are
+   not reflected, and a variant SET's `visuals` is the SET wrapper node's own paint (Figma's purple
+   dashed selection chrome), not a per-variant one. Pass `--variant-visuals` to also walk each set's
+   variants and attach their real `layout`/`fills`/`radius`/`tokens`/`css` under `entry.variants[]` —
+   opt-in because it costs one extra node walk per variant. A standalone `COMPONENT` (not inside a
+   set) gets the same walk, attached as `entry.node` instead — there's no set to enumerate variants
+   of. `entry.props` (the prop *schema*) is unaffected either way; a variant's
+   `componentPropertyDefinitions` throws, so per-variant `values` there come from `variantProperties`
+   or, failing that, the variant name Figma guarantees is `"Prop=Val, ..."`. The node tree itself never
+   lands in `components.local.json` — it is written to a sibling
+   `design-system/components/<name>__<id>.json`, pointed at by that entry's `variantsFile` (sets) or
+   `nodeFile` (standalone components) — absent when nothing was exported for that entry. `entry.variants[]`
+   in the slim catalog keeps only `id`/`name`/`key`/`values`. Fetch one component's real node tree(s) with
+   `bun design-to-code/get-component.ts design/export/design-system/components.local.json <key|id|name>`.
+2. It only covers components DEFINED in this file. Components consumed from a published library
+   (the `remote:true` entries, recovered via instance-walk — see the honest-limits note above) are
+   not covered here; pull `--as-library` on the *source* library file for those. There is no
+   client-side fix for this — Figma exposes no API to enumerate a library's contents from a
+   consuming file (see `--list-libraries` above), so this is a hard ceiling, not a gap.
+
+**Duplicate component names.** The catalog build already flags a component name reused elsewhere in
+the file (e.g. two unrelated "Action Buttons" component sets) as `duplicate component name: '<name>'`
+in `hygiene`. `--design-system`/full pulls echo `hygiene` to stderr as soon as the write completes
+(prefixed `hygiene (N):`), so this shows up in the run itself instead of requiring a manual
+`hygiene.json` diff.
+
+Allowlist it in Claude Code so it runs without a prompt (`.claude/settings.json`):
+```
+{ "permissions": { "allow": ["Bash(dtwin:*)"] } }
+```
+
+### Keep the connection open: `--serve` (daemon)
+Each one-shot run above waits for the plugin to reconnect. For several pulls in a row, hold the bridge
+open and let later invocations reuse it:
+```
+dtwin --serve          # holds the bridge open until stopped (Ctrl-C works too)
+dtwin --daemon-status  # is one up, and is the plugin connected?
+dtwin --stop           # or: dtwin stop
+```
+Every ordinary command detects a running daemon and **routes through it automatically** — same
+invocations, no reconnect, no second bridge to collide on 8787.
+
+Why a daemon rather than "a flag that just leaves the connection open": a long-running CLI has no way
+to receive further commands, so it would hold the port while being unreachable — blocking the MCP
+server and every other CLI call. Instead one process (`--serve`) owns the bridge and each later
+invocation is a thin client over a unix socket, `designtwin-<port>.sock`, in a directory only you can
+access: `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` when it is set (and private), else `$TMPDIR/designtwin-<uid>/`, created
+`0700`. The socket takes no token, so dtwin refuses that directory if it is a symlink, owned by
+another user, or open to group/other — remove it, or point `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` or `TMPDIR` at a
+directory only you can access. Until then ordinary commands and the MCP server run without a daemon
+(the refusal is printed once on stderr), `--serve` / `--stop` refuse, and `dtwin doctor` fails its
+daemon check with the same message. The location follows `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` / `TMPDIR`, so two processes
+started with different values (a terminal, and an MCP server launched by an app) see different daemons.
+A daemon started by an earlier dtwin version listens at `$TMPDIR/designtwin-<port>.sock`: `--stop`
+stops it too, and a port-in-use error names that socket.
+
+> **On Windows** the daemon listens on a named pipe, `\\.\pipe\designtwin-<port>-<hash>`, named from the
+> bridge token. A pipe cannot be made private to your account the way the socket's directory is (its
+> default access lets any local user open it, and a client cannot check who created it), so before any
+> request both ends prove they hold the bridge token — a mutual HMAC challenge over fresh nonces from each
+> side (`bridge/src/daemon-auth.ts`). A process that cannot prove it is dropped without a word, and a
+> squatter holding the pipe name is refused by every command (nothing is sent to it): `--serve` says so,
+> and commands fall back to opening their own bridge. What it cannot stop: a squatter can still deny you
+> the daemon (move it with `dtwin --rotate-token`), and the pipe is only as private as the token file —
+> `%APPDATA%\design-twin\bridge-token` is per-user; `dtwin doctor` warns when the token comes from a file
+> outside your profile. With no token saved yet there is nothing to name the pipe with: start a bridge once
+> first. `--rotate-token` / `--forget-token` stop a running daemon first (on every OS), since nothing
+> could find it under the new token while it still held the port.
+
+Behaviour worth knowing:
+- Requests are **forwarded as they arrive**; the **plugin** decides what may run alongside what, in each
+  file, for every caller (a daemon client, the MCP server holding the bridge, the plugin window's own
+  buttons). Each command declares how it runs (`bridge/src/commands.ts` `runKind`): exports, screenshots
+  and writes run one at a time, in arrival order; the selection and the listings (`list pages` / `list` /
+  `list children`, `list libraries`) wait for the run ahead of them, because they read layers and an
+  export's catalogue walk briefly hides hidden layers inside instances (`skipInvisibleInstanceChildren`);
+  the identity reads (`ping`, `whoami`) answer at once, even during an export. Two files are two plugins,
+  so a pull of one file never waits on another file's export.
+- Every request id is unique per bridge (`r<nonce>-<seq>`) and a reply only settles the request on the
+  connection it was sent to, so a late reply from an abandoned earlier request cannot answer the
+  next one. When the plugin is connected but sends nothing the stall message says so ("the plugin is
+  connected but sent nothing for '<cmd>' … it is busy"): an earlier export is still running in that file,
+  or a long cold first read of a large page. Retry, or use a warm plugin (`dtwin serve`).
+  The plugin sends a `start` frame when a bridge run begins and a `queued` frame when it arrives behind
+  another run, so "connected but silent" is distinguishable from "waiting its turn".
+- An **abandoned request is cancelled in the plugin**: when a command times out, when the one-shot
+  stall check gives up, when the bridge shuts down, or when the client that asked (a Ctrl-C'd CLI, an
+  ended MCP session) disconnects from the daemon before its reply, the bridge tells the plugin to stop
+  that work rather than leaving it to finish for nobody (the plugin checks for the cancel at every node, so it
+  stops within a node, not at the end of the page; one long single `exportAsync` still runs to its end) —
+  and one the plugin still has queued is dropped without ever running. The next run in that file starts
+  when the abandoned one has actually stopped, not when the cancel was sent.
+- `--serve` / `--stop` / `--daemon-status` each own the whole invocation; combining one with a pull or
+  a read option is refused rather than silently dropping the export you typed.
+- A stale socket left by a crashed daemon reads as "no daemon" and is replaced, rather than making
+  every later run fail against a file nobody is listening on.
+- A second `--serve` is **refused**, not allowed to steal the live socket.
+- **Idle shutdown after 120 min** (`FIGMA_DAEMON_IDLE_MIN`, `0` disables). A daemon outlives the
+  terminal that started it, so this reaps abandoned ones instead of leaving port 8787 held by a
+  process you've forgotten. It is deliberately generous, the clock resets on every request, and a
+  request in flight holds it off entirely — a 15-minute `--all-pages` export is never cut short by
+  its own daemon. `--daemon-status` shows how much of the window is used.
+- **An MCP server that owns the bridge exits when its client goes away** (stdin closes, or stdout breaks),
+  at once, unless another process has used its shared socket; then it keeps serving and idles out on the
+  same `FIGMA_DAEMON_IDLE_MIN` window (default 120 min, `0` = never), since other sessions route through
+  it. This deliberately departs from the MCP stdio binding's "exit promptly when stdin closes". SIGINT,
+  SIGTERM and SIGHUP cancel in-flight reads, remove the socket and exit 0, even while serving others.
+
+## Write / interactive: figma-mcp (MCP over stdio)
+**Not registered in this repo** — there is no `.mcp.json` here on purpose, so the MCP never starts
+while you are working *on* the bridge. Register it in the project you are *building*: a `.mcp.json`
+there that runs `bridge/src/figma-mcp.ts` on Bun — `"command"`: the absolute path of `bun`, `"args"`:
+`["--no-install", "--no-env-file", "<abs path>/bridge/src/figma-mcp.ts"]` — under the key `designtwin` (`dtwin init --mcp`
+writes exactly that, with the `bun` and the clone that ran it; an absolute `bun` keeps working when Claude Code is
+started without `~/.bun/bin` on its PATH). Claude Code then launches it over stdio, and its tools surface as
+`mcp__designtwin__<tool>` (e.g. `mcp__designtwin__figma_status`).
+No token needs to go in that `.mcp.json`: the MCP server reads the same per-user stored token the CLI
+does, so the one you already pasted into the plugin keeps working (set `FIGMA_BRIDGE_TOKEN` in the
+registration only if you deliberately want the MCP on a *different* token from the CLI).
+The server also hosts the bridge WebSocket the plugin connects to. Built on `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk`
+with the `McpServer` + `registerTool` + zod pattern (tool schemas are zod, validated per call).
+
+Tools (15): `figma_status`, `figma_list_clients`, `figma_whoami`, `figma_get_selection`, `figma_list_libraries`,
+`figma_list_pages`, `figma_list_children`, `figma_export_full`, `figma_export_design_system`, `figma_export_selection`, `figma_export_url`,
+`figma_screenshot` (an on-demand PNG of ONE node — the single-node visual-validation counterpart to the
+export tools' whole-frame reference PNG; see `--screenshot` above),
+`figma_write` (batch of safe ops — createFrame / createText / setFill / setText; **no arbitrary code
+execution**, unlike some community servers; a `fill` / `color` must be a hex colour — `#rgb`, `#rgba`,
+`#rrggbb` or `#rrggbbaa` with the `#`, never a name like `red` — and anything else is refused (by the
+schema here, and by the plugin for a write from another client) instead of painted as a wrong colour; `dryRun: true` returns a preview of what each op would
+create or overwrite without touching the file — there is no undo from the MCP side, so preview anything
+that overwrites; refused outright when the file is in read-only Dev Mode), and two that read the export already on disk and
+need no Figma connection — `design_get_component` (one component's variant node trees) and
+`design_drift_lint` (the component map vs the export; see below). The frame-walking export tools accept opt-in read flags
+`css` / `measurements` / `pluginData` / `motion` / `sharedData`; `figma_export_design_system` doesn't
+take them (it never walks a node — see below) but DOES take `variantVisuals`, since the component
+catalog it builds is exactly what that flag enriches.
+
+### `writeToDisk` — the export path that doesn't go through the context window
+Every export tool takes `writeToDisk: true` (plus an optional `outDir`). It writes the export through
+the same `write-out.ts` the CLI uses — same layout, by construction — and returns a **compact index**
+(counts + file paths) instead of the node payloads. The agent then Reads/Greps those files at whatever
+granularity it needs.
+
+Use it for anything past a quick look. Two things make it not optional:
+- **Asset bytes are never returned inline** (they'd dump megabytes of base64 into context), so
+  `writeToDisk` is the *only* way to get `assets/` out of the MCP path.
+- **Inline MCP results are capped** (25k tokens by default, `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS`, and never above
+  48,000 characters — under Claude Code's own 50,000-character persist threshold). The server
+  measures the result before returning it: one that would not fit is **written to disk on its own**
+  and the index's `note` says so (a real design-system export is ~590 KB ≈ 147k tokens). Passing
+  `writeToDisk: false` opts out of that — an oversized result is then an error naming the size,
+  never a payload cut off mid-JSON.
+
+Every export result (written or inline) carries `sourceFile` (the Figma file it came from) and
+`durationMs {total, request, write}`. When an implicit spill replaces a file whose content differs (the stamps
+`exportedAt`/`generatedAt` aside), the previous one is kept one level as `<file>.prev` and the note names it. A screen
+spill (`figma_export_url`/`figma_export_selection`) keeps ONLY `<screen>.json.prev` (`wrote.prev`) — its `.vars.json`,
+`.assets.json`, `pages/index.json` and the merged `variables.json` are replaced with no copy, so a restored `.prev` is
+paired with the NEW siblings. A page/full/design-system spill keeps one per changed JSON file under `pages/` and
+`design-system/` plus `design-system.json`, listed in `wrote.prevKept`, with the count. `figma_status` reports
+`snapshot` — the export on disk, the verdict `dtwin doctor`'s export line words: `exportedAt`/`ageMs`/`sourceFile`/`file`
+of its NEWEST stamp (whichever source was pulled last — not the design system's by default), `warning` when no source
+carries a usable stamp, `stale` (older than `staleAfterMs`, 24h), `sources[]` (`{kind: "screens"|"design-system"|
+"page-walk"|"screen-doc", sourceFile, count?, exportedAt, ageMs, problem?, file?}` — the screens of each Figma file, `sourceFile:
+null` for rows an older bridge did not stamp) and `problems[]` (files there but unusable); `{file, error, problems}` when
+the only export file there is unusable; null when nothing is exported — plus
+`lastScreenExport` (the newest screen on disk: name, id, file, exportedAt, ageMs) and `lastWrite` (this server process's
+last export: tool, time, whether implicit, file, `prev`, `prevKept` count). `figma_whoami`'s `connection` is the addressed
+client's. `page`, `screens` and `catalogs` arguments accept an array, a JSON-encoded array string or a bare string.
+`design_drift_lint` runs the CLI's own lint run: `screens: string[]` (the CLI's `--screen`) adds `screenCoverage`
+with its warnings, `catalogs: string[]` (the CLI's `--catalog`) adds catalogs the map may point into, both under the
+working directory. A file the CLI would refuse (exit 2: a missing or non-catalog file, a broken `catalogs` entry, a
+non-screen) is a tool error with the CLI's message; an unreadable discovered catalog is a `catalog-unreadable` warning. An interrupted tool call (Claude Code's cancel,
+or the session ending) cancels the in-flight read in the plugin; `figma_write` is never cancelled, since a
+write cannot be un-applied.
+
+`outDir` resolves against **the directory the MCP server was started in** — i.e. the project you're
+building, not this repo. Default `FIGMA_EXPORT_DIR` or `design/export/`, the same var `figma_status` reads. The `design_*` tools'
+`exportDir` defaults the same way (`FIGMA_EXPORT_DIR`, else the project's export — `design/export/`, or `design/` on
+the older flat layout), and `design_drift_lint`'s `map` to `design/codeconnect.local.json` (or a root
+`codeconnect.local.json` an older project still has).
+With `writeToDisk: true` or an explicit `outDir` it is checked before the export (inside the project
+lexically or by real path), so a refused path never costs a read; a server started at the filesystem root accepts none.
+
+> **One bridge, shared.** Port 8787 has one owner at a time. The MCP server and `dtwin serve` both
+> publish the bridge they own on a local socket, and everything that starts later — a `dtwin` command,
+> a second Claude Code session's MCP server — routes through it instead of binding the port again.
+> When the owner exits, the next MCP call opens the bridge itself (the plugin reconnects on its own).
+> The one holder that does NOT share is a plain one-shot `dtwin pull` with no daemon: while it runs,
+> another `dtwin` command that needs the port exits with `EADDRINUSE`, while an MCP server stays up and
+> only that tool call errors — retry it once the pull is done. `writeToDisk` is still the simplest way
+> to get files from inside an MCP session. On Windows the shared socket is a named pipe guarded by a
+> token handshake (see the `--serve` section); sharing otherwise works the same.
+
+**Look before you pull.** `figma_list_pages` (and `figma_list_children` to drill into one frame) return
+a cheap structural index — ids, names, types, sizes; no recursion, no assets, no node properties. Every
+other read here deep-serializes, so without them the only way to learn what a file holds was to export
+all of it: measured 12+ minutes and tens of MB straight into the context window on a real design
+system. Use the index to pick a target, then `figma_export_full({ page: ["<id>"] })` — or
+`skipAssets: true`, which is close to free here since asset bytes are stripped from MCP results anyway.
+
+`figma_list_libraries` (optional `client`, like every Figma tool) is a side step, not part of that order: it answers **which design
+libraries** the file draws on — which library owns a token, or what to name in an `--as-library` pull. Its result is deliberately
+compact — libraries, their variable collections, and usage-derived component counts — because a
+discovery call that costs context defeats its own purpose. The same three limits apply as for the CLI
+flag above (usage-derived counts, UI-only library enablement, empty-is-normal), and the tool reports
+them in-result rather than leaving an empty list ambiguous. It is a discovery read (no export) but the
+slowest one — a few seconds up to ~15 s (about 2 s on a file with no libraries enabled): it walks every
+instance and makes one Figma call per enabled library collection. Recommended order for one
+screen: `figma_status` → `figma_list_pages {depth:1}` → `figma_list_children` → `figma_export_url
+{url:"<node id>", writeToDisk:true}`; `figma_export_full({ page: [...] })` only for a whole page, and
+`figma_list_libraries` when you need to know which library owns a token.
+
+**Only want the design system?** `figma_export_design_system` skips the page/frame walk (and the
+assets that walk would produce) and returns just variables/styles/components/hygiene — the MCP twin of
+the CLI's `--design-system` flag. Same `writeToDisk`/`outDir` contract as the other export tools; same
+one honest gap, too: on a file that CONSUMES a library this returns that file's own tokens plus only the
+library variables something in it references — never the library's catalog (that is `--as-library`, CLI
+only, run with the library open).
+
+### "Paste a link and ask about it" (`figma_export_url`)
+CLI twin: `dtwin pull --node <id>` (see above) — same underlying `exportNode` op, so a pull from
+either surface lands in the identical shape.
+
+Keep Claude Code and the MCP running for the whole session; the plugin stays connected to your
+open file. Then just paste a Figma link and ask — Claude pulls the node the link points to and
+answers from live data, as many times as you like (free, no per-request cap):
+```
+you: here's the header — https://figma.com/design/KEY/App?node-id=123-456 — what spacing does it use?
+→ Claude calls figma_export_url(url); the plugin selects node 123:456 and exports it live.
+```
+It reads the **live open file** — it can't fetch a link cold. The file the link points to must be
+open in the Figma desktop app with the plugin running. A URL carries `node-id` in dash form
+(`123-456`); the plugin normalises it to Plugin-API colon form (`123:456`) and switches pages /
+scrolls the node into view so you can see what's being read.
+
+Pre-approve tools in `.claude/settings.json`:
+```
+{ "permissions": { "allow": ["mcp__designtwin__*"] } }
+```
+
+## Notes / limits
+- The Figma file must be **open** with the plugin running for either path (never headless).
+- One process owns port 8787 at a time. `figma-mcp` and `dtwin serve` share the bridge they own
+  (later `dtwin` commands and MCP servers route through it); only a one-shot pull does not. A `dtwin`
+  command that then finds the port taken exits immediately with a clear `EADDRINUSE` message; an MCP
+  server stays up and that one tool call errors — retry it after the pull.
+- Windows: the daemon is a named pipe named from the bridge token, and every connection proves the token
+  first (`daemon-auth.ts`). A daemon started under an EARLIER token cannot be found or stopped by name —
+  `--rotate-token` stops it before rotating, so that only happens to one started with a different
+  `FIGMA_BRIDGE_TOKEN`.
+- One WebSocket frame may be at most `FIGMA_BRIDGE_MAX_PAYLOAD_MB` (default 128; clamped just under
+  4096). A value that is not a number above 0 falls back to 128 with a warning — there is no "unlimited".
+  An export over it fails with a message quoting the cap in force.
+- Image assets travel as base64 (not JSON int-arrays) — ~3.5–4x smaller on the wire.
+- Profiling: `DTWIN_TIMINGS=1` prints one `[dtwin] timings {…}` JSON line on stderr at the end of a
+  `dtwin` command; `DTWIN_TIMINGS=<file>` appends it to that file instead (JSON Lines). It holds the
+  connect / export / write split, when each plugin phase (`queued`, `page`, `designSystem`, `assets`, …)
+  was first and last heard, the queue wait, the reply's asset count and decoded bytes, and peak RSS —
+  counts and times only, never a file, page or layer name, a key or document content. Off by default.
+- v1 sends each response as a single WebSocket frame. If you hit very large pages, add chunking
+  (see ARCHITECTURE.md "chunk large payloads").
+- Hidden-graphic reuse (`assetFrom`) compares the node's own rotation/flip and box only, not an
+  ancestor's, and not which slot of its parent the icon sits in (two icons of one component in one
+  parent variant count as one, even if that variant colours them differently); across screens it depends on pull order (a screen pulled before its twin's screen keeps
+  `assetSkipped:"hidden"`, and re-pulling it later changes its JSON with nothing changed in Figma), and
+  each `.assets.json` row offers one `reuseKey`. With an old plugin still loaded, the geometry warning
+  may name hidden nodes — re-run the plugin.
+- A cross-screen twin comes from any screen JSON on disk, however old: a screen pulled before its icon
+  component was redrawn hands its old file to a hidden node of a screen pulled today (the IR carries no
+  component version to check). Re-pull every screen in a sync.
+- `list children` titles a colliding row from its "Page Title" slot; when that search runs past its node
+  cap (a very large frame), the row's `title` falls back to the first text — which can differ from the
+  title the pages index gives the same screen after a pull. `distinctTexts` reads the same way, with a
+  budget of 20000 node reads for the whole listing (a group with a row it cuts off gets none — see the warning).
+- Write ops are a deliberately small, explicit set — extend `applyWrite()` in
+  `../figma-plugin/src/writes.ts` (rebuild `code.js`) and add a matching `registerTool` here as needed.