Collaborating with agents

DeckWerk is closely integrated with agents that can edit slides directly, see and resolve comments that you put on elements or slides, create whole presentations from scratch, and essentially can do ~anything that a coding agent can do today.

Click Agent… to start a deck-scoped agent session. A compact chat panel drops down beneath the toolbar with the message box focused, while the ordinary editor remains visible. Type a request and press Enter to send it; use Shift+Enter for a new line.

When you send a prompt to the agent, the agent receives access to a specificially designed web API that gives the agent full affordance over the Deck. It can create slides from scratch in HTML and import them in DeckWerk, with no limits to its creativity or styling. Or it can execute surgical edits to styling and content of existing slides.

Sign in with ChatGPT if DeckWerk asks you to. The signed-in email appears at the top of the panel. Choose Switch account to use a different ChatGPT account; DeckWerk keeps this login isolated from other Codex clients on the computer.

Choose a model from the Model menu. DeckWerk starts with the default reported by Codex for the signed-in account, and a new choice takes effect with the next message.

You can keep typing while the agent works. Sending another message steers the active turn; use Stop separately when you want to interrupt it. The ⚡ button switches supported models between standard and Fast mode (lit means Fast).

The agent works through the revision-bound HTTP API while you watch changes appear live. Applied drafts become named changes in History. In the background, the editor is a peer of the same authoritative collaboration session, so local and agent edits stay synchronized.

Choose Stop to interrupt a turn or New chat to discard the current conversation while keeping the same live session. Click Agent… or press Escape to tuck the panel away without stopping the session; choose Close in the panel to end it.

Agents can also read and reply to comments. This makes a comment a useful way to leave a precise request on a slide or object before opening the chat.

Keep DeckWerk open while the agent works so the loopback API and live player remain available.