From 1b55ba8d9d7fb727e561d6c66850c3121f9901af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hiroshi <robinhoodie0823@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:25:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: add description when create variables

---
 src/app/components/EditTokenForm.tsx | 14 +++++++++++---
 src/plugin/setValuesOnVariable.ts    |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/app/components/EditTokenForm.tsx b/src/app/components/EditTokenForm.tsx
index 9044b1898..04c4cd8b8 100644
--- a/src/app/components/EditTokenForm.tsx
+++ b/src/app/components/EditTokenForm.tsx
@@ -90,9 +90,17 @@ function EditTokenForm({ resolvedTokens }: Props) {
   }, [internalEditToken, error, isValidColorToken, isValidDimensionToken]);
 
   const hasNameThatExistsAlready = React.useMemo(
-    () => resolvedTokens
-      .filter((t) => t.internal__Parent === activeTokenSet)
-      .find((t) => t.name === internalEditToken?.name),
+    () => {
+      const editToken = resolvedTokens
+        .filter((t) => t.internal__Parent === activeTokenSet)
+        .find((t) => t.name === internalEditToken?.name);
+
+      if (editToken) {
+        editToken.description = internalEditToken.description;
+      }
+
+      return editToken;
+    },
     [internalEditToken, resolvedTokens, activeTokenSet],
   );
 
diff --git a/src/plugin/setValuesOnVariable.ts b/src/plugin/setValuesOnVariable.ts
index 4d3678bdf..1800b89fe 100644
--- a/src/plugin/setValuesOnVariable.ts
+++ b/src/plugin/setValuesOnVariable.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ export default function setValuesOnVariable(
         variable = figma.variables.createVariable(t.path, collection.id, variableType);
       }
       if (variable) {
+        variable.description = t.description ?? '';
         switch (variableType) {
           case 'BOOLEAN':
             if (typeof t.value === 'string') {
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ export default function setValuesOnVariable(
   } catch (e) {
     console.error('Setting values on variable is failed', e);
   }
+
   return {
     variableKeyMap,
     referenceVariableCandidates,

From de30344a27dd0bfb480e19bb0073b6b8ef5fb7a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SorsOps <80043879+sorsOps@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:51:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add changeset

---
 .changeset/dirty-otters-notice.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/dirty-otters-notice.md

diff --git a/.changeset/dirty-otters-notice.md b/.changeset/dirty-otters-notice.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce43d93a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/dirty-otters-notice.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@tokens-studio/figma-plugin': patch
+---
+
+We now carry over token descriptions when creating variables