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How to use Microsoft PowerPoint with VS Code

You want Microsoft PowerPoint inside VS Code so it can create presentations from a written brief, review slide content and speaker notes, add slides to an existing deck, and prepare and update speaker notes — without you copy-pasting between tabs. Here is the whole setup, once.

Create your Microsoft PowerPoint gateway

The gateway is the thing VS Code connects to, and it is where you decide which Microsoft PowerPoint tools an agent may use. You create it once and every client reuses it.

  1. Create an Arcade account

    Sign up and open the dashboard. The free tier is enough to follow this through.

  2. Create an MCP Gateway and select your Microsoft PowerPoint tools

    In the dashboard, create a gateway and pick the Microsoft PowerPoint tools you want to expose. The gateway is what your client connects to, and it is where tool access is decided.

  3. Copy your gateway URL

    Every client below needs it.

    https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/<YOUR-GATEWAY-SLUG>

Create a Microsoft PowerPoint gateway Opens the gateway builder in your Arcade dashboard.

Connect the gateway to VS Code

  1. Add the server

    VS Code 1.107.0 or higher. Command Palette → MCP: Add Server… → choose HTTP, paste your gateway URL, and name it something like mcp-arcade.

  2. Start it and authenticate

    Click Start next to the server in mcp.json or under Extensions → MCP Servers - Installed, then approve the Arcade sign-in and consent screens.

  3. Try it out

    Open the chat pane, switch to Agent mode, and ask it to use one of your Microsoft PowerPoint tools.

Full VS Code guide in the docs steps verified 2026-08-13

Get started with these PowerPoint prompts

VS Code can now act on your Microsoft PowerPoint account. Click a prompt to copy it.

Use permissions to separate reading presentations from creating slides or changing speaker notes. Pair it with Contextual Access policies so an agent can inspect a deck without being allowed to modify it.

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