Automate real PowerPoint with AI

Drive Microsoft PowerPoint with natural language from GitHub Copilot, Claude and any MCP client — slides, shapes, tables, charts, text formatting and export-to-verify visual checks on a live desktop instance.

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Live COM automation, not file parsing

Most PowerPoint MCP servers manipulate .pptx files offline with libraries like python-pptx, or use agent-run scripts with LibreOffice-rendered thumbnails. This project instead drives a live, real PowerPoint desktop instance via Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint — the official Primary Interop Assembly.

True-fidelity rendering. PowerPoint itself renders and saves the file, so there's zero risk of producing a .pptx that PowerPoint can't open.
Export-to-verify. After any visual edit, export the slide (or the whole deck) to an image with export(action="export-slide-to-image", ...) / export(action="export-all-slides-to-images", ...) and let a vision-capable AI assistant see the result — catching overlapping shapes, text overflow, and layout regressions that text-only automation simply cannot detect.

Also automating spreadsheets?

Check out Excel MCP Server — the sister project, built the same way.

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Check out Windows MCP Server — automate Windows apps and browsers from your AI assistant.

PowerPoint MCP in 60 seconds¶

The video shows an AI request becoming a native, editable PowerPoint dashboard, then being exported and visually checked. English captions are available from the player controls.

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PowerPoint is where ideas become decisions. PowerPoint MCP lets your AI work directly in the real desktop app, not through a file parser. Start with a simple request. Ask for an executive dashboard, a project update, or a complete presentation. Behind the scenes, MCP turns that intent into precise PowerPoint operations: creating slides, placing native shapes, formatting text, and building charts. The result is a real, editable deck, rendered by PowerPoint itself. The AI exports each slide, inspects the layout, and verifies the result. For scripts and coding agents, `pptcli` provides the same engine through a compact, token-efficient command line. Seventeen domains. Get started at powerpointmcpserver.dev.

Key features¶

Slides & layouts

Add and delete slides, apply and inspect layouts, and query slide count for state discovery.
Shapes & text

Add rectangles and text boxes, position and resize shapes, set and read rich text with font size, bold and color.
Tables & charts

Build tables cell-by-cell and add charts with real data — then read the data back to verify.
Speaker notes

Set and read presenter notes per slide for talk-track generation and review.
Images

Insert pictures from local files directly onto any slide.
Templates & themes

Apply a .potx/.pptx template's masters, theme and layouts while preserving existing slide content, and read back the current theme name.
Slide masters

Set title/body placeholder fonts and background color on the slide master — one edit, applied to every slide that inherits it.
Animations & transitions

Add entrance/emphasis/exit effects to shapes and set slide transitions, then read them back to verify.
Export-to-verify

Export any slide — or the whole deck — to images for multimodal visual verification. The project's core differentiator over text-only PowerPoint tooling.

See all 17 tools (205 operations) across 17 domains

See it in action¶

Ask your AI assistant in plain language — it drives PowerPoint for you:

📝 Build a deck from scratch

You: "Create a new presentation with a title slide and three content slides about our Q3 results, then export it as images so I can see it."

AI creates the presentation, adds slides with headings and body text, and exports PNGs of every slide to verify the result.

📊 Tables & charts

You: "Add a 4x3 table summarizing this data, then add a bar chart next to it."

AI builds the table cell-by-cell and adds a chart shape with the given data, then exports the slide to confirm the layout looks right.

🎨 Formatting & shapes

You: "Make the title bold and blue, and move the logo to the top-right corner."

AI applies text formatting through the TextFrame tools and repositions the shape, then exports an image to verify nothing overlaps.

🗣️ Speaker notes

You: "Write speaker notes for each slide summarizing the key talking point."

AI reads each slide's content and writes tailored notes via notes(action="set-notes-text", ...).

🖼️ Visual verification

You: "Export slide 3 as an image and tell me if the chart overlaps the text box."

AI exports the slide with export(action="export-slide-to-image", ...) and inspects the rendered PNG directly — catching issues no text-only tool could see.

CLI or MCP Server?¶

This project provides both a CLI and an MCP Server interface. Choose based on your use case:

Interface	Best for	Why
CLI (`pptcli`)	Coding agents (Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf)	Single tool, no large schemas — better for cost-sensitive, high-throughput automation.
MCP Server (`mcp-powerpoint`)	Conversational AI (Claude Desktop, VS Code Chat)	Rich tool discovery, persistent session. Better for interactive, exploratory workflows.

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