Slides

Turns ideas, outlines, or documents into polished presentation decks and exports them as PDF. Give Slides a topic or paste your content — it handles structure, design, and output.

## What it's good at

- **Deck creation** — takes any input (topic, bullet list, document, meeting notes) and builds a structured, designed slide deck
- **Professional themes** — 9 built-in themes: Tech, Business, Science, Nature, Education, Art, Culture, Lifestyle, Health
- **PDF export** — high-quality 16:9 PDF at 1920×1080 (2× retina), ready to share or present
- **Content generation** — writes and refines slide content using a built-in LLM, including summaries and translations
- **Research** — can fetch web content to supplement your slides with current data
- **Custom visuals** — generates images for slides when needed

## How it works

Slides follows a four-stage workflow: **outline → content → design → export**.

First it proposes a slide structure based on your input. Once you approve (or adjust), it writes the content for each slide, applies the chosen theme, renders the HTML, and takes a screenshot to verify the layout. Finally it exports to PDF and delivers the file to your workspace.

The sandbox uses a desktop-lite image without a full VNC display — rendering is handled headlessly. The lifecycle is `oneshot`, so each conversation starts fresh. Deck files are saved to the workspace and persist between sessions.

If Docker sandbox is not enabled, tasks execute directly on the machine where Yao Engine is installed.

## How to write a good prompt

**Start with a topic or paste your content.** The less Slides has to guess, the better the structure. A one-line topic works; pasted meeting notes work even better.

**Specify the length and audience.** "10 slides for a product launch, audience is the sales team" gives Slides enough context to calibrate depth and tone.

**Name the theme if you have a preference.** Otherwise Slides picks based on the topic — Tech and Business are defaults for most professional decks.

**Iterate on the outline before the content.** It's faster to change structure before Slides writes all the copy.

**Examples:**

> Create a 10-slide deck introducing our new product: an AI-powered analytics platform. Audience: enterprise sales. Use the Business theme.

> Make a presentation about AI trends in 2026 — 8 slides, Tech theme, written for a general audience.

> Turn these meeting notes into a 6-slide summary deck: [paste notes]

> Translate this existing deck into English and reformat it as a Business theme presentation.

## Capabilities at a glance

| Capability | Details |
|------------|---------|
| Input | Topic, outline, document text, meeting notes |
| Themes | Tech, Business, Science, Nature, Education, Art, Culture, Lifestyle, Health |
| Output | HTML deck + PDF (16:9, 1920×1080, 2× retina) |
| AI features | Content writing, summarization, translation, web research, image generation |
| Sandbox | `claude-desktop-lite` image, 4 GB RAM, `oneshot` lifecycle |
| Workspace | Permanently stored — deck files persist across conversations indefinitely |

## What's next

- [Report Writer](/docs/en-us/built-in-agents/report-writer) — for text-first deliverables instead of slides
- [Transformer](/docs/en-us/built-in-agents/transformer) — structure raw data before feeding it to Slides
- [AI Experts: Find the Right One](/docs/en-us/getting-started/ai-experts-intro) — see all built-in experts