Gws Slides

A straightforward wrapper around the Google Slides API that lets you read, write, and manipulate presentations programmatically. You can create new presentations, fetch existing ones, and batch update slides with text, images, or layout changes. The `gws schema` command is genuinely helpful for understanding the Google API's often complex parameter structures before you make calls. It's built on the broader `gws` CLI ecosystem, so you'll need that toolchain set up first. Most useful when you're automating report generation, building presentation templates, or need to programmatically update slides based on data from other sources.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill gws-slides --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

slides (v1)

PREREQUISITE: Read ../gws-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules. If missing, run gws generate-skills to create it.

gws slides <resource> <method> [flags]

API Resources

presentations

batchUpdate — Applies one or more updates to the presentation. Each request is validated before being applied. If any request is not valid, then the entire request will fail and nothing will be applied. Some requests have replies to give you some information about how they are applied. Other requests do not need to return information; these each return an empty reply. The order of replies matches that of the requests.
create — Creates a blank presentation using the title given in the request. If a presentationId is provided, it is used as the ID of the new presentation. Otherwise, a new ID is generated. Other fields in the request, including any provided content, are ignored. Returns the created presentation.
get — Gets the latest version of the specified presentation.
pages — Operations on the 'pages' resource