diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 36ee6395b..6c5376c25 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@
 - Resize auto-layout frames that fill across their parent with it: one with a fixed size on that axis kept its old size. A filling child still counts toward a hugging parent's size, as in Figma.
 - Set `layoutSizingHorizontal` and `layoutSizingVertical` in scripts as Figma does: Fill is recorded on the child for that axis instead of on the frame's own sizing, which `.fig` export dropped, text switches its `textAutoResize`, and sizing Figma refuses, such as Hug on a frame without auto layout, throws Figma's error.
 - Read geometry in scripts after an edit without waiting for the script to finish: `x`, `y`, `width`, `height`, `relativeTransform`, `absoluteTransform`, `absoluteBoundingBox`, and `absoluteRenderBounds` lay out what the script changed first, as in Figma, so a hugging parent reports its new size right after a child is added.
+- Size text from scripts as Figma does: `figma.createText()` makes empty 12px text that sizes itself to its content instead of a fixed 100px box, auto-sizing text resizes when its characters, font, or size change, and `resize()` fixes its size.
 - Draw segmented controls in the properties panel at the height of the fields beside them.
 - Keep saving AI chat history in Safari Private Browsing after a message with an image or a reply that changed the document. Safari cannot store image data that way in a private window, so the conversation stopped saving from that point and showed "Chat history could not be saved".
 - Keep a component set's dashed border one pixel wide at every zoom; zooming in after opening a page scaled it into thick dashes until the page was redrawn.
diff --git a/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessor-utils.ts b/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessor-utils.ts
index 980c34cab..f20944d3a 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessor-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessor-utils.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
 import type { GroupFitOptions, SceneGraph, SceneNode } from '@open-pencil/scene-graph'
 
 import { assertNodeEditable } from '#core/editor/capabilities'
+import { textAutoResizeChanges } from '#core/editor/text/auto-resize'
 import type { NodeProxyHost } from '#core/figma-api/proxy'
 
 export interface NodeProxyInternals {
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ export function updateNode(
       .map((key) => [key, Reflect.get(changes, key)])
   ) as Partial<SceneNode>
   if (Object.keys(applied).length === 0) return
+  // Auto-sizing text measures its new content, as the editor's updates do.
+  Object.assign(applied, textAutoResizeChanges(g.getNode(id), applied))
   g.updateNode(id, applied)
   recordInstanceOverride(g, id, Object.keys(applied))
   if (Object.keys(applied).some((key) => GEOMETRY_FIELDS.has(key))) {
diff --git a/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessors/basic.ts b/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessors/basic.ts
index 157c6e54b..1429488b5 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessors/basic.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/figma-api/accessors/basic.ts
@@ -212,8 +212,20 @@ export function installBasicNodeProxyAccessors(
       const scene = graph(this, internals)
       const node = raw(this, internals)
       const before = containerTransform(node, scene)
-      scene.updateNode(node.id, { width, height })
-      recordInstanceOverride(scene, node.id, ['width', 'height'])
+      // Text given a size stops sizing itself to its content, as in Figma.
+      const fixesText =
+        node.type === 'TEXT' &&
+        (node.textAutoResize === 'WIDTH_AND_HEIGHT' || node.textAutoResize === 'HEIGHT')
+      scene.updateNode(node.id, {
+        width,
+        height,
+        ...(fixesText ? { textAutoResize: 'NONE' as const } : {})
+      })
+      recordInstanceOverride(scene, node.id, [
+        'width',
+        'height',
+        ...(fixesText ? ['textAutoResize'] : [])
+      ])
       setTransform(this, internals, () => before)
     },
     resizeWithoutConstraints(this: ProxyThis, width: number, height: number): void {
diff --git a/packages/core/src/figma-api/index.ts b/packages/core/src/figma-api/index.ts
index f584306e5..7d007d282 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/figma-api/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/figma-api/index.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { newLayerDefaults } from '#core/editor/shapes/defaults'
 import { booleanOperationPaints, createBooleanOperation } from '#core/editor/structure/boolean'
 import { wrapNodes } from '#core/editor/structure/container-wrap'
 import { ungroupNode } from '#core/editor/structure/group'
+import { textAutoResizeChanges } from '#core/editor/text/auto-resize'
 import { setDefaultPageBackground } from '#core/figma-api/page-backgrounds'
 import type { RasterCodec } from '#core/io/formats/raster'
 import { reconcileVariableLayouts } from '#core/layout/variables'
@@ -187,7 +188,13 @@ export class FigmaAPI implements NodeProxyHost {
   }
 
   createText(): FigmaTextNode {
-    return this._createNode('TEXT') as FigmaTextNode
+    const text = this._createNode('TEXT') as FigmaTextNode
+    // Figma's plugin text starts empty at 12px and sizes itself to its content: no width, one
+    // line tall.
+    const node = this.graph.getNode(text.id)
+    const defaults = { fontSize: 12, textAutoResize: 'WIDTH_AND_HEIGHT' as const, width: 0 }
+    this.graph.updateNode(text.id, { ...defaults, ...textAutoResizeChanges(node, defaults) })
+    return text
   }
 
   createLine(): FigmaLineNode {
diff --git a/packages/core/tests/figma-api/text-autosize.test.ts b/packages/core/tests/figma-api/text-autosize.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4fcb60329
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/tests/figma-api/text-autosize.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { beforeAll, describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test'
+
+import { expectDefined } from '#core-tests/helpers/assert'
+import { fontManager } from '#core/text/fonts'
+
+import { FigmaAPI } from '@open-pencil/core/figma-api'
+import { SceneGraph } from '@open-pencil/scene-graph'
+
+// Recorded with the same script in live Figma on 2026-10-07, Inter Regular. Line metrics round
+// differently by up to a pixel.
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  fontManager.markLoaded(
+    'Inter',
+    'Regular',
+    expectDefined(await fontManager.fetchBundledFont('/Inter-Regular.ttf'), 'bundled Inter font')
+  )
+})
+
+function text() {
+  const figma = new FigmaAPI(new SceneGraph())
+  return figma.createText() as ReturnType<FigmaAPI['createText']> & TextNode
+}
+
+function size(node: { width: number; height: number }) {
+  return [node.width, node.height]
+}
+
+describe('plugin text sizing', () => {
+  test('new text is empty, 12px, and sizes itself to its content', () => {
+    const node = text()
+    expect(node.textAutoResize).toBe('WIDTH_AND_HEIGHT')
+    expect(node.fontSize).toBe(12)
+    expect(size(node)).toEqual([0, 15])
+
+    node.characters = 'Hello'
+    expect(size(node)).toEqual([29, 15])
+    node.characters = 'Hello world, a longer line of text'
+    expect(Math.abs(node.width - 180)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1)
+    node.characters = 'Hello'
+    node.fontSize = 24
+    expect(node.width).toBe(58)
+    expect(Math.abs(node.height - 29)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1)
+  })
+
+  test('resizing text fixes its size', () => {
+    const node = text()
+    // Read through a call, so the assignment below does not narrow what TypeScript expects.
+    const mode = (): string => node.textAutoResize
+    node.characters = 'Hello'
+    node.resize(200, 50)
+    expect(mode()).toBe('NONE')
+    expect(size(node)).toEqual([200, 50])
+
+    node.textAutoResize = 'HEIGHT'
+    node.resize(100, 10)
+    expect(mode()).toBe('NONE')
+    node.characters = 'Hello there, this wraps across lines'
+    expect(size(node)).toEqual([100, 10])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/tests/engine/figma/api/layout/plugin-compat.test.ts b/tests/engine/figma/api/layout/plugin-compat.test.ts
index 1d077bb84..b809c331a 100644
--- a/tests/engine/figma/api/layout/plugin-compat.test.ts
+++ b/tests/engine/figma/api/layout/plugin-compat.test.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ describe('Figma Plugin API layout compatibility', () => {
     frame.appendChild(text)
     text.x = 11
     text.y = 13
+    const textWidth = graph.getNode(text.id)?.width ?? 0
+    expect(textWidth).toBeGreaterThan(0)
 
     frame.rescale(2)
 
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ describe('Figma Plugin API layout compatibility', () => {
     expect(text.fontSize).toBe(20)
     expect(text.letterSpacing).toBe(4)
     expect(text.lineHeight).toBe(28)
-    expect(graph.getNode(text.id)?.width).toBe(200)
+    expect(graph.getNode(text.id)?.width).toBe(textWidth * 2)
   })
 
   test('rescale rejects occurrence descendants without mutation but permits definition children', () => {