Slides MCP

Mar 2026AI agentsPrivate

Slides MCP is a server I built that lets AI agents make real Google Slides decks.

It gives an agent 18 tools, from creating a deck and building a whole slide in one call to generating images and pulling icons and stock photos, then sharing the finished link.

I built it in two days in March 2026 so a prompt like 'make a 10-slide pitch deck for Ippo' could end in a deck instead of a list of instructions.

tools an agent can call: 18

Eighteen tools an agent can call

AI agents are good at writing a deck's content and bad at producing the file, because they have no hands in Google Slides. MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is the standard way to give an agent new tools, so I wrote an MCP server for Slides. It has no screen of its own; agents call its tools. Here it is in the MCP Inspector, connected and listing all 18, for decks, slides, text, images, shapes, backgrounds, icons, photos, templates and sharing. The workhorse is build_slide, which sets the background and places every text box, shape and image in one call, so an agent builds a deck slide by slide instead of one element at a time.

From one prompt to a shared deck

An agent starts from one of four built-in themes, Dark Minimal, Pitch Deck, Clean Corporate and Neon Gradient, each a ready-made deck of 8 to 10 slides. For visuals it generates images with Gemini and hosts them on Google Drive, searches more than 200,000 free icons through Iconify and pulls stock photos from Unsplash and Pexels. When the deck is done, it shares the link with anyone or with a specific email.

How an agent builds a deck

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Eighteen tools an agent can call

From one prompt to a shared deck