How to connect Google Slides to Cursor

1. 1. Enable Google Slides in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the Google Slides MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.

2. 2. Add Metorial to your MCP config

   Use ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for one.

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   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "metorial": {
         "url": "<your-magic-mcp-url>"
       }
     }
   }

3. 3. Sign in

   Open Customize in the sidebar, find Metorial and sign in to load Google Slides tools.

• Create Presentation: Creates a new blank Google Slides presentation with a given title.
• Add Image: Inserts an image onto a slide from a public URL, or replaces all shapes matching a text pattern with an image across the presentation.
• Manage Slides: Create, duplicate, reorder, or delete slides within a presentation.
• Replace Text: Performs bulk find-and-replace of text across an entire presentation.
• Get Presentation: Retrieves the full structure of a Google Slides presentation including all slides, page elements, masters, and layouts.
• Add Shape: Adds a shape or text box to a slide.
• Embed Sheets Chart: Embed a chart from a Google Sheets spreadsheet into a slide, or refresh an existing linked chart to reflect updated spreadsheet data.
• Batch Update: Sends multiple raw update requests to a presentation in a single atomic batch.
• Manage Speaker Notes: Read or update the speaker notes for a specific slide.
• Edit Text: Insert, delete, or style text within a specific text box or shape element on a slide.
• Delete Element: Deletes a page element (shape, text box, image, chart, etc.) from a slide by its object ID.
• Get Slide Thumbnail: Generate a PNG thumbnail of the latest version of a Google Slides page as a downloadable file.

• Cursor picks MCP tools automatically when they are relevant, including in Plan Mode. Name a Google Slides tool to steer it.
• Cursor asks for approval before it uses an MCP tool by default. Click the arrow next to the tool name to check the arguments first.
• Switch the Metorial server off from Customize in the sidebar without removing it.
• Cursor shows each Google Slides tool response in chat, with expandable views of the arguments and the result.

Metorial connects but tools are missing or failing

Open the Output panel (Cmd+Shift+U), choose MCP Logs, and look for authentication or connection errors.

Your company blocks the server

Enterprise admins approve remote servers in Team Settings, then MCP Configuration. Ask them to add a URL entry for your Metorial URL.

Cursor asks before every tool call

That is the default. Allowlist the Metorial tools you trust in your Run Mode settings to run them without a prompt.

Based on the Cursor MCP documentation.