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gws-slides

Helps your agent create and modify Google Slides presentations. Useful for automating the creation of visual content.

What it does

This tool helps you create and manage presentations in Google Slides. You can create new blank presentations or update existing ones.

When to use it

  • ✓When you need to quickly create a new presentation.
  • ✓When you want to add or modify slides in an existing presentation.
  • ✓When you need to retrieve a presentation to review or edit.

Example of what to ask your AI

“Create a new presentation called 'Project Ideas'.”

Want more? Open the sections below.

How to use

The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.

Skill link

https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/blob/main/skills/gws-slides/SKILL.md

Ready-to-paste message

Use this skill to help me: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/blob/main/skills/gws-slides/SKILL.md Read the SKILL.md file at that link and follow its instructions for my task.
How it works

It connects to your Google Slides account and uses commands to create or modify your presentations. You tell it what to do, and it does it.

Installation

Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.

In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:

npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-slides

Or download just the file:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleworkspace/cli/main/skills/gws-slides/SKILL.md -o SKILL.md
Technical content (original SKILL.md)

Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.

slides (v1)

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

gws slides <resource> <method> [flags]

API Resources

presentations

  • batchUpdate — Applies one or more updates to the presentation. Each request is validated before being applied. If any request is not valid, then the entire request will fail and nothing will be applied. Some requests have replies to give you some information about how they are applied. Other requests do not need to return information; these each return an empty reply. The order of replies matches that of the requests.
  • create — Creates a blank presentation using the title given in the request. If a presentationId is provided, it is used as the ID of the new presentation. Otherwise, a new ID is generated. Other fields in the request, including any provided content, are ignored. Returns the created presentation.
  • get — Gets the latest version of the specified presentation.
  • pages — Operations on the 'pages' resource

Discovering Commands

Before calling any API method, inspect it:

# Browse resources and methods
gws slides --help

# Inspect a method's required params, types, and defaults
gws schema slides.<resource>.<method>

Use gws schema output to build your --params and --json flags.

FAQ

How do I create a presentation?

You can use the 'create' command to make a new blank presentation, specifying the desired title.

How do I update an existing presentation?

Use the 'batchUpdate' command to apply multiple changes at once. If any change is invalid, none of them will be applied.

How do I view a presentation?

Use the 'get' command to retrieve the latest version of a specific presentation.

Details

Original description by the author

Google Slides: Read and write presentations.

repo: googleworkspace/cli

Popularity

GitHub stars
32k
Ranking position
#6286
License
Apache-2.0
Updated
10/6/2026

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