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Create Google Slides Presentation

Creates a new Google Slides deck, adds slides, and shares it with a teammate via the gws CLI

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Repository
googleworkspace/cli
Stars
32,059
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
1 file

What it does

This skill gives an AI agent a short recipe for making a Google Slides presentation from a conversation. It tells the agent to use the gws command-line tool to create a new presentation with a title, read back its ID, and then share it with a team member as an editor. The skill is a set of instructions, so the agent carries out the steps by running gws commands on your computer rather than doing the work in the chat itself.

Great for

  • Team members who regularly start new decks in Google Slides and want the agent to set them up
  • People already using the gws CLI with a Google Workspace account who want a quick repeatable workflow
  • Managers who want a presentation created and shared with a colleague in one request

Skip it if

  • Users without a Google Workspace or Google account, or without gws installed and authenticated, since the commands will fail
  • Situations where the presentation must be shared with specific people or domains only after review, because the recipe shares with a hardcoded example address (team@company.com) and gives writer access immediately
  • Editing or formatting the content of existing slides, since the recipe only creates a presentation and adds initial slides

Try asking

  • “Create a new Google Slides deck called 'Quarterly Review Q2' and share it with my team”
  • “Make a presentation titled 'Product Launch Plan' and give edit access to alex@mycompany.com”
  • “Start a new slide deck for next week's planning meeting and share it with the project team”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Create Google Slides PresentationInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    recipe-create-presentation.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip recipe-create-presentation.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip recipe-create-presentation.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Replace the example title and the team@company.com address with your own values, or tell the agent who to share with, so the file is not shared with the wrong person.
  • The recipe grants writer (edit) rights to the email address you give; check the address before the agent runs the share step.
  • Install and authenticate gws and the gws-slides skill first, since this recipe will not work without them.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from googleworkspace/cli under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.