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Google Slides Toolkit
The Google Slides toolkit connects Arcade to Google Slides (and Google Drive) via the Google APIs, enabling LLMs to create, edit, read, search, and comment on presentations programmatically.
Capabilities
- Deck creation and editing: Build presentations from scratch or apply atomic batches of edits — add/delete/restyle slides and elements, insert/replace text, reorder slides, duplicate objects, and set speaker notes — all in a single call.
- Template and branding workflows: Derive new decks from existing branded templates, preserving masters, layouts, and themes; inspect layout inventories (placeholder types, indices, object IDs) before constructing slides to target the right placeholders.
- Reading and visual inspection: Retrieve full addressable snapshots (object IDs, placeholder types, text, speaker notes, layout/master inventory) and render individual slide thumbnails for visual confirmation before sharing.
- Search and discovery: Full-text search across a user's Drive presentations, matching body content and titles; returns results newest-first.
- Comments and thread management: Add top-level comments or replies to existing threads, list paginated comments and replies, and resolve or reopen comment threads — all attributed to the connected account.
- Account and file access: Retrieve the connected Google account's profile, and generate a Google Drive file picker URL to grant per-file access when a presentation is inaccessible.
OAuth
This toolkit uses OAuth 2.0 via Google. See the Arcade Google auth provider docs for setup details.
Secrets
ENABLE_GOOGLE_DRIVE_INLINE_PICKER_URL— Controls whether theGenerateGoogleFilePickerUrltool is available in this environment. This is not a credential from Google; it is an Arcade-side configuration secret that enables or disables the inline Drive picker feature. Set it to enable the picker flow that lets users grant per-file Drive access without a full re-authorization. Configure this secret in your Arcade environment via the Arcade secrets dashboard. For full details on how Arcade tool secrets work, see the Arcade tool secrets guide.
Available tools(10)
10 of 10 tools
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 create_or_edit_presentation targets. 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. | 1 | ||
Render one slide to an image and return its content URL, for visually
confirming a deck looks right before sharing. | 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). | 1 | ||
Return the connected Google account's profile (name, email, picture). |
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