The problem
Every designer has hit this wall. You need to add something to a component — a new icon state, an optional label, a status indicator. But you don't want it showing up in the hundreds or thousands of existing instances already placed across your files.
The usual workaround: create a new component. Now you have two near-identical components and your system is messier than before.
What I built
A Figma plugin that solves this with a single click. Add your new layer to the component, run the plugin, and it hides the layer from all existing instances. New instances get it visible by default. Existing work stays untouched.
Why it matters
This plugin saved countless hours of manual hiding of newly added layers to existing components in the design system. Every time we evolved a component — adding a new state, an optional element, a status badge — the plugin made sure existing instances stayed untouched. Without it, someone would have had to manually update hundreds of instances, or worse, avoid improving components altogether.