Editor basics

The slide editor lives at Agents → [your agent] → Slides. It's a three-pane workspace: scene strip on the left, canvas in the middle, inspector on the right.

The three panes

1. Scene strip (left)

   A vertical list of slide thumbnails. Click a slide to make it active. Drag to reorder. Right-click (or use the toolbar) to duplicate or delete. Keyboard shortcuts: ⌘D duplicate, Delete or Backspace to remove the current slide.

2. Canvas (center)

   The slide preview at 16:9. Click an element to select it. Shift-click or ⌘-click to multi-select. Click empty canvas to deselect (the inspector flips to slide-level controls).

3. Inspector (right)

   Context-sensitive properties for whatever you have selected. Nothing selected → the Deck inspector (deck title, theme colors, font, text size, spacing, corners). Slide selected (no elements) → the Slide inspector (script, AI instructions, avatar dock, speaker notes, per-slide theme override). Element selected → the matching Element inspector (typography for text, fit + alt for image, etc.). Multiple elements selected → the Multi-select inspector (layer order, opacity, lock/hide). Avatar widget selected → the Avatar inspector (position, shape, dock, voice override).

Top toolbar

The top toolbar splits into two halves:

• Left — element creation: Text · Shape · Image · Button · Quiz · Embed · Video. Click to insert at the canvas center; for text, the cursor lands ready for typing.
• Right — deck actions: Layers (toggle the layer panel) · Test slide (preview this slide with the agent's voice) · Preview deck (open the published /a/<slug> URL) · Use template · Save as template · Save status indicator.

Save behavior

Every change auto-saves. The indicator on the top-right shows Saving… during in-flight requests, Saved when up to date, or Error if the most recent save failed (typically a 409 conflict from concurrent edits — refresh the page to pick up the latest version).

Saves happen in two formats under the hood:

• Ops (the default) — incremental patches, lightweight.
• Full doc (fallback) — when ops would exceed 5 MB, the editor sends the entire SlideDoc instead.

Both go to PATCH /api/slide-docs/[id] with optimistic concurrency control. You don't have to think about it; the editor picks the right format automatically.

Keyboard shortcuts

Read next

• Creating slides — add, duplicate, reorder
• Elements — the 7 element types
• Theming — deck colors and per-slide overrides