How to take over a design built in Figma Make and develop it with Claude Code

From February to April 2026, I launched four web apps, each starting from a code bundle that Figma Make (Figma's AI feature that generates a working front-end code bundle from a design) had spat out: a beauty-curation site, a gift-record app, a plush-toy album, and a UI mock for an AI development tool. Every one of them starts its repository in a state where "the look is already finished." In this article I look back — from the actual config files and commit history — at what I did to get those generated outputs into a state where I could take over development in Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI coding agent) and start working on them, and at how far each of the four repositories progressed or stalled.

The starting point: what shape does a Figma Make output come in?

A Figma Make export runs as-is with npm run dev. The README tells the story.

# Beauty Information Curation Site

This is a code bundle for Beauty Information Curation Site.