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Impress agent

Slides, drafted.

A deck is not a document with pages. The Impress agent builds slides as objects — layouts, placeholders, speaker notes — rather than dumping text onto a canvas.

One prompt builds the whole deck from the open workbook: cover, agenda, KPI cards, two charts and a summary, using the workbook's own figures. Replica of the app window, driven through the agent's real states, not a screen recording.

What it does in Impress.

34 tools, grouped by what they’re for. Every capability below is a real tool the agent calls — the names are the evidence, the text explains what they let you do.

Reading & structure2 tools

  • Read each slide's title, layout and shape count
  • Read the shapes and text on one slide
  • Include speaker notes when asked
All 2 tools
  • get_presentation_info
  • read_slide

Slides — build & organize7 tools

  • Add, move, duplicate and delete slides
  • Switch a slide's layout and name it
  • Write titles and body text into the layout's placeholders
All 7 tools
  • add_slide
  • delete_slide
  • move_slide
  • duplicate_slide
  • set_slide_layout
  • rename_slide
  • write_slide_text
OfficeLabs Impress sidebar on a fictional company's board-review deck after the user asks "Add a slide, copy it, then retitle the copy." Add Slide and Write Slide Text create a slide titled "Four things for the board today", Duplicate Slide copies it, and Write Slide Text retitles the copy "Summary and decision" with three bullets.
A slide added, duplicated and retitled, one call each.

Theme & visual identity6 tools

  • Apply a named design theme to the deck
  • Set backgrounds and swap the master slide
  • Add slide transitions and shape animations
All 6 tools
  • apply_theme
  • set_slide_background
  • set_slide_master
  • slide_template_setup
  • apply_slide_transition
  • apply_animation
OfficeLabs Impress sidebar on a three-slide fictional board-review deck after the user asks "Apply the navy theme, then recolour the cover." Apply Theme restyles every slide, then Slide Background gives the cover its own background.
One theme applied to every slide, then a custom background on the cover.

Objects on the slide10 tools

  • Place shapes, images, tables and charts
  • Add positioned text boxes and hyperlinks
  • Group, move, resize or re-text what is already there
All 10 tools
  • insert_shape_on_slide
  • delete_shape_on_slide
  • insert_image_on_slide
  • insert_table_on_slide
  • insert_chart_on_slide
  • insert_text_box_on_slide
  • resize_move_shape
  • set_shape_text
  • group_shapes
  • insert_hyperlink_on_slide
OfficeLabs Impress sidebar on a fictional board-review deck after the user asks "Add the KPI cards, then chart revenue by month." Layout Grid places four KPI cards, then Insert Chart on Slide adds a revenue-by-month chart on the next slide.
Four KPI cards laid out on a grid and a revenue chart inserted.

Text, notes & finishing5 tools

  • Format font, size, color and alignment
  • Set speaker notes and slide numbers
  • Find and replace across every slide, then export to PPTX
All 5 tools
  • format_slide_text
  • set_speaker_notes
  • add_slide_numbering
  • find_replace_slides
  • export_pptx

Bulk build & scripting4 tools

  • Build a whole presentation from one structured plan
  • Place stat or KPI cards in a computed grid
  • Fall back to Python UNO code when nothing else fits
All 4 tools
  • render_deck
  • apply_slide_ops
  • layout_grid
  • execute_script

Skills.

Alongside the tools above, Impress carries 20 skills — pre-built prompt blueprints for common Impress work. A keyword match against what you ask selects one automatically and folds it into the agent’s instructions before it starts; there is no picker to operate.

Presentation types10 skills

A structure matched to the occasion — a pitch deck, a quarterly review, a keynote, a training course — rather than a generic slide-by-slide outline.

  • company_overview
  • executive_briefing
  • keynote
  • pitch_deck
  • portfolio_review
  • product_launch
  • quarterly_review
  • sales_proposal
  • training_course
  • workshop

Visual design5 skills

Deck-level visual patterns: data visualization, an infographic layout, a photo essay, animation choreography across slides, a master-slide design setup.

  • animation_choreography
  • data_visualization
  • infographic
  • master_setup
  • photo_essay

Advanced techniques5 skills

Techniques beyond a linear slide deck: a comparison deck, interactive navigation between sections, a deck built from a data source, a reusable template, a timeline deck.

  • comparison_deck
  • interactive_navigation
  • slide_from_data
  • template_creation
  • timeline_deck

How it actually works.

A slide is not a text box floating on a canvas. Adding one means choosing a layout — title and content, two content areas, title only — and its placeholders come from that layout, not from text dropped at a coordinate.

Content and container stay separate: filling in a title or body writes into the layout's own placeholder, a positioned text box is a genuinely separate element for captions or callouts, and speaker notes live in their own field — visible in presenter view, never printed onto the slide itself.

Where the edges are.

  • Visual polish is the active work: layout quality is being improved, and a generated deck is a starting point you edit, not a finished design.
  • It builds from your structure — give it an outline or a source document and it has something to work from.

The other two

Writer agent

Drafts that land.

Calc agent

Formulas, solved.

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