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Design permission-aware search over design files

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FigmaSystem designLast asked Aug 2026

Organizations hold teams, nested folders and design files, with access granted by organization and team roles, folder grants and per-file overrides. A member types a short query, optionally filtered by team, folder, owner, file type or date, and gets ranked file results. An existing ranking service scores candidates; you own everything around it.

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  • Indexing file content, metadata and the permission hierarchy, and keeping them fresh as files and memberships change.
  • Retrieving candidates and filtering them so no one ever sees a file they can't read, including right after access is revoked or a folder moves.
  • Calling the ranker within a latency budget, with a deterministic fallback order when it is slow or down, and stable pagination.
  • Detecting and repairing a stale index or permission view.
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