Google Slides for AI agents

Google Slides is Google's cloud presentation editor, offering templates and real-time collaboration that teams use to build, review, and share decks together without emailing files back and forth. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.

Connect Google Slides See the 8 actions ↓

DocumentsOAuth 2.0MCP + RESTslides.google.com

AUDIT LOG · GOOGLE SLIDESPOLICY: acme-support

09:41:07 · claude · u_8f2read

google_slides.get_page_thumbnail2

Get Page Thumbnail v2✓ allowed · 212ms

09:41:09 · claude · u_8f2write

google_slides.create_presentation

Create Google Slides Presentation✓ approved · approved by user

EVERY GOOGLE SLIDES CALL, ON THE RECORD

01 · USE CASES

What agents do in Google Slides.

Build a deck from an outline

Create a new presentation and populate slides from a bulleted outline of talking points.

Read a presentation's content

Pull the text content of an existing deck to summarize it before a meeting.

Copy a template for a new deck

Copy an approved slide template as the starting point for a new client presentation.

02 · ACTIONS

8 Google Slides actions, graded by risk.

Every Google Slides action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.

read

Look things up. Allowed by default.

google_slides.get_page_thumbnail2
Get Page Thumbnail v2

write

Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.

google_slides.create_presentation
Create Google Slides Presentation
google_slides.create_slides_markdown
Create Slides from Markdown
google_slides.presentations_get
Get Presentation
google_slides.presentations_pages_get
Get Presentation Page
google_slides.presentations_batch_update
Update Presentation (Batch/Markdown)
google_slides.presentations_copy_from_template
Copy Google Slides from Template
google_slides.presentations_pages_get_thumbnail
Get Page Thumbnail (Deprecated)

destructive

Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.

No destructive actions.

03 · HOW IT WORKS

Google Slides in three steps.

01Your users connect Google SlidesThey sign in to Google Slides on Arc0 Connect, under your brand, and approve the access you ask for.
02You set the rulesReads run, and writes like “create Google Slides Presentation” can wait for the user to approve.
03Any agent can actYour agent calls Google Slides through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.

POLICY.TS

await arc0.policies.set('google_slides', {
  read: 'allow',
  write: 'ask',        // create_presentation
  destructive: 'deny',  
})

# Claude Code: the same connection, one URL
$ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \
    https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2

04 · AUTH AND DATA

How Google Slides connects.

Users sign in to Google Slides on Arc0 Connect and approve the scopes you request. Build with Arc0’s Google Slides OAuth app, or bring your own so the Google Slides consent screen names you. Tokens refresh automatically, and you can export them whenever you want.

The same Google Slides connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →

AUTH: OAuth 2.0
CREDENTIALS: Per-tenant encrypted vault
MODEL SEES: Results only, never credentials
AUDIT LOG: Every call, on every plan

05 · WORKS WITH

Use Google Slides from any agent.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Codex

VS Code

OpenAI Agents SDK

Claude Agent SDK

Vercel AI SDK

Mastra

LangGraph

06 · RELATED

Google Slides and Arc0, answered.

Q01

Can I use Google Slides with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect Google Slides to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the Google Slides actions you allow.

Q02

How do users connect Google Slides?

Q03

Which Google Slides actions can my agent take?

8 in total: 1 read, 7 write and 0 destructive, such as “create Google Slides Presentation”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.

Q04

Can I make my agent read-only in Google Slides?

Yes. Allow read actions and deny writes in the Google Slides policy. Your agent can still look things up, and any write it attempts is blocked and logged.

Q05

Can my own backend call Google Slides too?

Yes. The same Google Slides connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.

Get started

Plug Google Slides into your agent.

Your users connect Google Slides once, under your brand. Your agent gets 8 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.

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Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan