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Automate Jira + Figma with GAIA

Link Figma designs to Jira tickets and streamline design review workflows

To connect Figma and Jira, install the Figma for Jira app from the Atlassian Marketplace. With it, you paste a Figma file or frame link into a Jira issue and the issue shows a live preview of the design. On the Figma side, Jira plugins for Dev Mode and Jira widgets for FigJam let you view and link issues from inside a file. Those two pieces cover embedding Figma in Jira and linking designs to tickets.

GAIA does not connect to Figma, so it cannot read frames, versions, or comments in your files. What it handles is the Jira work around design handoff: it creates issues that carry the Figma links you give it, moves them through your workflow, comments on them, and tells designers and engineers when something needs them, through Slack or email.

Jira has no event trigger in GAIA, so these routines run on a schedule you set (hourly, every morning) or when you ask. If you need a change in Figma to update Jira the moment it happens, that comes from the Figma for Jira app or a Figma plugin, not from GAIA.

5 things you can automate

Everything GAIA can do when Jira and Figma are connected.

Create Jira issues with the design link attached

Paste a Figma link in chat and describe the work. GAIA creates the Jira issue in the right project with a summary, a description, and the Figma URL, so the Figma for Jira app can show the preview.

Turn design review notes into Jira issues

Paste your review notes or a list of requested changes, and GAIA files one Jira issue per item with the related Figma link, plus the assignee and labels you name.

Tell designers when their tickets enter development

On a schedule, GAIA checks Jira for design-labeled issues that moved to In Progress since the last run and messages the designer in Slack or by email with the issue link.

Send a weekly design handoff report

Every week, GAIA searches Jira for design-related issues and sends you a summary: what is waiting on design, what is in development, and which issues have no Figma link in their description.

Find the Jira issues behind a design

Ask which Jira issues mention a Figma file, and GAIA searches issue text for the link or file name and lists the matches with their status and assignee.

How to set it up

Connect Jira and Figma to GAIA in three steps.

1
Install Figma for Jira, then connect Jira to GAIA
Install the Figma for Jira app in your Jira Cloud site for design previews. Then connect Jira to GAIA from the integrations page through Atlassian sign-in. Connect Slack or Gmail too if you want GAIA to send alerts.
2
Describe the routine in plain English
Create a workflow, for example: "Every weekday at 10am, find issues in project APP with the label design that moved to In Progress yesterday, and message the designer in #design." Or ask in chat to file issues from a Figma link.
3
GAIA runs it in the background
Scheduled workflows run on your timetable and report what they did. Destructive actions such as deleting issues or comments ask for your approval first, following your approval settings.

Frequently Asked Questions

GAIA cannot open Figma files, so it does not match frames by name. It links issues and designs through the Figma URLs you give it, and it can search Jira for issues whose text contains a given Figma link or file name.

The preview comes from the Figma for Jira app, not from GAIA. GAIA puts the Figma URL in the issue, and with the app installed, Jira shows the design preview.

GAIA does not read Figma, so it cannot see branches or merges. If you give it a branch link, it uses that link in the issue, and after a merge you can ask it to swap the link for the main file.

Install the Figma for Jira app from the Atlassian Marketplace (a Jira admin may need to approve it), connect your Figma account when the app asks, then paste a Figma file or frame link into an issue to show the design.

Yes. Figma's plugin and widget browser has Jira plugins for Dev Mode and Jira widgets for FigJam that show and link Jira issues inside a file. Search for Jira there. GAIA works only on the Jira side.

Not directly. GAIA has no Figma connection, so it cannot detect design changes. It keeps the Jira side tidy (links, statuses, comments, alerts) on a schedule, while the Figma for Jira app keeps the design preview in the issue current.

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