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Google Slides Toolkit
Arcade's Google Slides toolkit gives LLMs full programmatic control over Google Slides presentations — creating, editing, reading, commenting, searching, and rendering slides — via the Google Slides and Drive APIs.
Capabilities
- Deck creation & editing: Build new presentations from scratch or from a branded template, apply atomic batches of structural and style edits (add/delete/reorder/duplicate slides and elements, insert/replace text, set speaker notes, apply layouts and themes).
- Read & inspect: Retrieve an addressable snapshot of any deck — slide/element object IDs, placeholder types, text, speaker notes, layout and master inventory — as the foundation for targeted edits.
- Visual preview: Render any slide to a PNG as a short-lived URL or inline data URI (SMALL/MEDIUM/LARGE) to verify layout, overflow, and branding before sharing.
- Search & discovery: Full-text search across Drive presentations (title and body content) with paginated results and next-step guidance when listings are incomplete.
- Comments & lifecycle: Add top-level comments or threaded replies (file-level, not slide-anchored), list comments newest-first, and resolve or reopen comment threads with attributed action replies.
- Account & file access: Identify the connected Google account and, when a file is inaccessible, generate a Google Drive file picker URL to request per-file grants before retrying.
OAuth
This toolkit uses OAuth 2.0 via Google as the auth provider. See the Arcade Google auth provider docs for setup details.
Secrets
ENABLE_GOOGLE_DRIVE_INLINE_PICKER_URL— Controls whether theGenerateGoogleFilePickerUrltool is able to produce a picker URL. This secret configures the OAuth client/app credentials that back the Google Drive Picker API. To obtain it, you must enable the Google Picker API in your Google Cloud project, ensure your OAuth consent screen and credentials are correctly configured, and provide the value that authorizes the picker flow in your deployment. Retrieve or create the required credentials from the Google Cloud Console APIs & Services page. When absent or misconfigured,GenerateGoogleFilePickerUrlreturnsstatus: unavailable— this is not an error condition.
For general guidance on configuring secrets in Arcade, see the Arcade secrets docs. Secrets can also be managed via the Arcade dashboard.
Available tools(10)
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Operations
Behavior
| Tool name | Description | Secrets | |
|---|---|---|---|
Add a comment to a presentation, or reply within an existing comment thread.
Comments are file-level, not anchored to a slide; to reference a slide, name it in
the text. Pass reply_to_comment_id to post within that thread instead of starting a
new comment. | 1 | ||
Create a deck or apply a batch of edits to one, returning created object ids,
replace counts, and a fresh addressable snapshot.
Use this single tool for all deck construction and editing: add, delete, or restyle
slides and elements, insert and replace text, and brand a deck in one batch. Reorder
slides with an updateSlidesPosition request; duplicate a slide or element with a
duplicateObject request. To set speaker notes, insertText into a slide's
notes_object_id (surfaced per slide in the snapshot).
To add a slide into a specific branded layout, first read the deck and consult the
snapshot's layout inventory: each layout reports its placeholders (type, index, and
object id), so you can pick a layout that already carries the title/body/other
placeholders you intend to fill rather than guessing which layout holds what, and
address a specific placeholder in placeholderIdMappings (by {type, index} or by
layoutPlaceholderObjectId) even when a layout repeats a type. Read the snapshot to
discover the object ids later edits target.
The batch is atomic: one invalid request rejects the whole batch, so target object
ids that exist in the snapshot. Object ids you assign to new objects are validated
before the batch is sent. | 1 | ||
Derive a new on-brand deck from an existing branded deck, preserving its
masters, layouts, and theme, then optionally filling tokens.
Use this instead of building from scratch when the user wants a deck in their
company template; the new deck inherits the source's branding. | 1 | ||
Generate a URL where the user grants this app access to specific Drive files.
Check `status` first. "unavailable" is not an error: either this app already reaches
every presentation the connected account can open, so there is no per-file grant to
request, or the picker is not configured here. Either way `reason` explains it, no URL
exists, and a presentation that could not be read is one the account itself cannot
open. Do not retry it.
On "available", use this when a prior tool reported a file was not found or access was
denied and the user expects the file to exist; after the user completes the picker,
retry the prior tool. Opens Google's first-party Drive picker, not a sign-in prompt. | |||
Return an addressable snapshot of a deck: slide and element object ids,
placeholder types, text, speaker notes, and the layout and master inventory.
This is the read side of the read-edit loop: the object ids it returns are the
addresses that edit requests target. Each layout in the inventory
reports its placeholders with type, index, and object id, the identity a
createSlide placeholderIdMappings entry needs (by {type, index} or by
layoutPlaceholderObjectId), even when a layout repeats a placeholder type.
What this response leaves out is reported in words by next_step, which is empty only
when nothing was left out: read it before answering anything about slides it does not
contain. | 1 | ||
Render one slide to a PNG. By default this returns a short-lived content
URL and pixel size. Set include_image to get the PNG as a data URI so you
can visually confirm layout, overflow, and branding before sharing.
Use this after creating or editing a slide when you need a preview, not
when you only need object ids or text. data_uri is omitted unless
include_image is true; it is a PNG in the form data:image/png;base64,...
Prefer SMALL or MEDIUM when including the image; LARGE occupies more of
the context window. | 1 | ||
List a page of comments and their replies on a presentation, newest first. | 1 | ||
Close (resolve) or reopen a comment thread on a presentation.
Posts an action reply on the thread, so the lifecycle change is attributed to the
connected account; the thread's existing comments and replies are preserved. | 1 | ||
Search the user's Drive for presentations, newest first by default.
Keyword matching is full-text: a keyword matches a deck's body content as well
as its title, so a deck can match on words that never appear in its title. A
keyword search that matches nothing returns an empty list (not an error).
An empty list is only a definitive no-match when next_step is empty. When next_step is
set, the listing was not walked to its end and the pages it did not reach may hold the
match, so do not report that no such presentation exists from that response alone. | 1 | ||
Return the connected Google account's profile (name, email, picture). |
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