What is Zoho Show MCP?
Zoho Show MCP lets supported AI assistants and MCP clients connect securely to your Zoho Show account, access presentations your account has permission to use, and help you perform actions in Zoho Show from a conversation.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. It is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external applications through secure, structured tools. With Zoho Show MCP, supported AI assistants can use Zoho Show tools to create, read, update, generate, organize, and manage presentations based on your permissions in Zoho Show.
What you can do with Zoho Show MCP?
Zoho Show MCP helps you use an AI assistant as a presentation assistant for Zoho Show. You can ask the assistant to create presentations, generate slides, update slide content, edit text and tables, inspect layouts, align objects, understand relationships between slide objects, and perform actions in Zoho Show.
Examples:
- Create a presentation from a topic, outline, or document text.
- Generate slides with titles, subtitles, bullet lists, text blocks, tables, and flowcharts.
- Duplicate, delete, reorder, or change the layout of slides.
- Update slide titles, body text, bullet lists, and other shape text.
- Create and edit tables in slides.
- Find available space on a slide before inserting new content.
- Align, distribute, or snap slide objects into position.
- Inspect grouped objects, nested objects, parent-child relationships, and object order.
Use Show MCP prompt templates and built-in knowledge resources for slide creation, presentation generation, text actions, table actions, spatial search, anchoring, traversal, relationships, master layouts, themes, and data operations.
Main capability areas
1. Presentations
Create new Zoho Show presentations and list existing presentations that your account can access.
2. Slide creation and generation
Create slides one at a time, create multiple slides in a batch, generate slides from structured content, or create slides from document text.
3. Slide management
Duplicate, delete, reorder, or change the layout of slides in a presentation.
4. Structured objects
Create structured tables and flowcharts in slides from organized input.
5. Data operations
Read, list, validate, and update presentation data, including slides, objects, masters, layouts, metadata, and object facets.
6. Text editing
Read text from shape objects, check text length or paragraph count, replace or edit text, and apply text styling.
7. Tables
Read table sizes and cell text, replace or edit cell text, insert or delete rows and columns, and merge or unmerge cells.
8. Spatial search and layout
Find available regions on a slide, inspect object bounds, calculate clearance, identify nearby objects, and find objects within a selected region.
9. Anchoring and alignment
Align objects, distribute spacing, check alignment status, evaluate placement feasibility, and snap objects to a grid or relative position.
10. Relationships and object hierarchy
Inspect parent objects, child objects, ancestors, descendants, grouped objects, nested objects, and relationship evidence between slide objects.
11. Traversal
Understand object order, neighbouring objects, and before-or-after context around objects on a slide.
12. Themes and layouts
List available theme data and retrieve layout data so the assistant can use Show themes, master layouts, fonts, colors, and placeholders correctly.
13. Knowledge resources and prompt guides
Read Show MCP knowledge resources and use prompt guides for presentation management, slide management, data updates, data retrieval, data validation, text actions, table actions, spatial search, anchoring, relationships, traversal, presentation generation, and composition structure.