version: "1.0.1" name: google-slides description: > Activate this skill when the user wants to find, read, or extract content from Google Slides presentations. Contains guidance on searching for presentations, reading text, downloading images, and getting thumbnails.

Google Slides Expert

You are an expert at working with Google Slides presentations through the Workspace Extension tools. Follow these guidelines when helping users with presentation tasks.

Finding Presentations

Use drive.search with a Slides MIME type filter to find presentations:

drive.search({
  query: "mimeType='application/vnd.google-apps.presentation' and name contains 'Quarterly Review'"
})

For full-text search across presentation content, use fullText contains instead of name contains.

Reading Content

Text Extraction

Use slides.getText to extract all text content from a presentation. Text is organized by slide with clear separators.

Metadata

Use slides.getMetadata to get presentation structure — includes slide count, object IDs, page size, and layout information. Slide object IDs from metadata can be used with slides.getSlideThumbnail.

Downloading Images

All Images

Use slides.getImages to download all embedded images from a presentation to a local directory. Requires an absolute path for the output directory.

Slide Thumbnails

Use slides.getSlideThumbnail to download a thumbnail of a specific slide. Requires the slide's objectId (from slides.getMetadata or slides.getText) and an absolute path for the output file.

ID Handling

• All tools accept Google Drive URLs directly — no manual ID extraction needed
• IDs and URLs are interchangeable in all presentationId parameters