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Zoom General

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  • Tool integration
  • Automation and integrations
  • MIT
  • Medium risk

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Use when comparing products.
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Zoom General serves as a strategic starting point for developers and architects to navigate the Zoom ecosystem. It provides a structured workflow to classify integration requirements, identify the correct Zoom product surface (such as APIs, SDKs, or webhooks), and determine the necessary authentication model. By guiding users through a decision-making process, it ensures that developers select the right tool for their specific use case before routing to more specialized skills.

What it does

  • Classifies integration jobs based on desired outcomes like embedding meetings or automating resources.
  • Maps requirements to specific Zoom surfaces including REST APIs, WebSockets, and various SDKs.
  • Provides guidance on selecting the correct authentication and scope model for an integration.
  • Facilitates routing to specialized skills once the product context is established.
  • Offers comparative context for tasks that span multiple Zoom product boundaries.

When to use it

  • When you are in the early stages of planning a Zoom integration and need to choose the right app type.
  • When you need to compare different Zoom surfaces to determine which fits your technical requirements.
  • When a task involves multiple Zoom products and requires a high-level architectural approach.
  • When you need to confirm the correct authentication flow for a specific integration scenario.

Advantages

  • Prevents premature selection of tools by enforcing a structured classification process.
  • Clarifies the distinction between user-level OAuth, account-level OAuth, and SDK signatures.
  • Reduces complexity by routing users to narrow, specialized skills after initial planning.
  • Provides a clear decision matrix for choosing between General Apps, Server-to-Server OAuth, and Webhook Only apps.

Usage examples

“I want to build an app that automates meeting reports. Which Zoom app type should I use?”
The agent will guide you to classify the job as backend automation, leading to the recommendation of Server-to-Server OAuth for its lack of user interaction requirements.
“Should I use the Meeting SDK or the Video SDK for my project?”
The agent will help you compare the two based on your specific embedding needs and surface requirements, ensuring you choose the correct SDK for your use case.

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/openai/zoom-general/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip zoom-general.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Zoom

Zoom General

Use this skill for cross-product platform context after the user’s goal is understood. For first-step routing, prefer start, plan-zoom-product, or plan-zoom-integration.

Workflow

  1. Classify the job by outcome: embed meetings, custom video, automate resources, consume events, process media, use meeting intelligence, or publish a Marketplace app.

  2. Choose the Zoom surface that owns the behavior: REST API, webhooks, WebSockets, Meeting SDK, Video SDK, Zoom Apps SDK, Phone, Contact Center, Virtual Agent, Scribe, Rivet, or Cobrowse.

  3. Confirm auth and scope model before implementation; Zoom surfaces differ on user-level OAuth, account-level OAuth, and SDK signatures.

  4. Route to the narrow skill once the surface is chosen rather than keeping broad guidance in context.

  5. Use the preserved guide only when a task crosses product boundaries or needs detailed comparison tables.

References

Files

references/distributed-meeting-fallback-architecture.md

Distributed Meeting Creation and Event Processing with Fallbacks

Use this architecture for high-volume meeting creation with resilient event processing.

Core Architectural Considerations

  1. Separation of planes

  • Command plane: REST meeting creation/update APIs.

  • Event plane: webhook ingestion and async projection.

  1. Idempotency and dedupe

  • Require caller-provided idempotency key per create request.

  • Dedupe webhook events by stable event key.

  1. Token isolation

  • Central token broker with distributed lock (Redis/Postgres advisory lock).

  1. Backpressure and queueing

  • Queue all webhook events and meeting commands.

  • Use DLQ for poison messages.

  1. Fallback mechanisms

  • Retry with exponential backoff + jitter for retriable failures (429/5xx/network).

  • Circuit breaker around Zoom API dependency.

  • Reconciliation poller when webhook delivery is delayed/missed.

Reference Topology

API Gateway
  -> Meeting Command Service
      -> Idempotency Store (Redis/Postgres)
      -> Token Broker
      -> Zoom REST API
      -> Outbox/Event Bus

Webhook Ingress
  -> Signature Verify + URL Validation
  -> Queue (Kafka/SQS/Rabbit)
  -> Projection Workers
  -> Meeting State Store

Recovery Services
  -> Retry Worker
  -> Reconciliation Poller (REST pull)
  -> Dead Letter Reprocessor

Command Plane Example (Meeting Creation Service)

type CreateMeetingInput = {
  idempotencyKey: string;
  hostUserId: string; // explicit user for S2S
  topic: string;
  startTime: string;
  duration: number;
};

type QueuePublisher = { publish: (topic: string, payload: object) => Promise<void> };
type IdempotencyStore = {
  get: (key: string) => Promise<object | null>;
  put: (key: string, value: object, ttlSec: number) => Promise<void>;
};

export async function createMeetingCommand(
  input: CreateMeetingInput,
  deps: {
    tokenBroker: { getToken: () => Promise<string> };
    idempotency: IdempotencyStore;
    queue: QueuePublisher;
    breaker: CircuitBreaker;
  },
) {
  const cached = await deps.idempotency.get(input.idempotencyKey);
  if (cached) return cached;

  if (!deps.breaker.canCall()) {
    // degraded mode: queue command for delayed processing
    await deps.queue.publish('meeting.create.delayed', input);
    return { accepted: true, mode: 'degraded_queued' };
  }

  const op = async () => {
    const token = await deps.tokenBroker.getToken();
    const res = await fetch(
      `https://api.zoom.us/v2/users/${encodeURIComponent(input.hostUserId)}/meetings`,
      {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
          Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
          'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        },
        body: JSON.stringify({
          topic: input.topic,
          type: 2,
          start_time: input.startTime,
          duration: input.duration,
        }),
      },
    );
    if (!res.ok) {
      const err = new Error(`zoom_create_failed:${res.status}`);
      (err as any).status = res.status;
      throw err;
    }
    return res.json();
  };

  try {
    const created = await retry(
      op,
      { retries: 4, baseMs: 300, maxMs: 5000 },
      (e) => [429, 500, 502, 503, 504].includes((e as any).status),
    );

    deps.breaker.recordSuccess();
    await deps.idempotency.put(input.idempotencyKey, created, 3600);
    await deps.queue.publish('meeting.created', { meetingId: created.id, hostUserId: input.hostUserId });
    return created;
  } catch (e) {
    deps.breaker.recordFailure();
    throw e;
  }
}

Event Plane Example (Webhook Ingress + Queue + Projection)

import crypto from 'crypto';

export function verifyWebhook(rawBody: string, ts: string, sig: string, secret: string): boolean {
  // reject stale requests to reduce replay risk
  const nowSec = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
  const tsSec = Number(ts || 0);
  if (!Number.isFinite(tsSec) || Math.abs(nowSec - tsSec) > 300) return false;

  const msg = `v0:${ts}:${rawBody}`;
  const expected = `v0=${crypto.createHmac('sha256', secret).update(msg).digest('hex')}`;
  return sig === expected;
}

export async function ingestWebhook(req: any, res: any, queue: QueuePublisher, secret: string) {
  if (req.body.event === 'endpoint.url_validation') {
    const plainToken = req.body.payload?.plainToken;
    const encryptedToken = crypto.createHmac('sha256', secret).update(plainToken).digest('hex');
    return res.json({ plainToken, encryptedToken });
  }

  const ts = String(req.headers['x-zm-request-timestamp'] || '');
  const sig = String(req.headers['x-zm-signature'] || '');
  const raw = String(req.rawBody || '');
  if (!verifyWebhook(raw, ts, sig, secret)) return res.status(401).send('invalid_signature');

  try {
    // durable write first, then ack
    await queue.publish('zoom.webhook.raw', req.body);
    return res.status(200).send('ok');
  } catch {
    // non-200 triggers Zoom retry for at-least-once delivery
    return res.status(503).send('queue_unavailable');
  }
}

export async function projectEvent(evt: any, stateStore: any, dedupe: IdempotencyStore) {
  const dedupeKey = `${evt.event}:${evt.event_ts}:${evt.payload?.object?.uuid || evt.payload?.object?.id || 'unknown'}`;
  const seen = await dedupe.get(dedupeKey);
  if (seen) return;

  const id = String(evt.payload?.object?.id || '');
  const current = (await stateStore.get(id)) || { status: 'unknown', participants: 0, lastEventTs: 0 };
  if (evt.event_ts < current.lastEventTs) {
    await dedupe.put(dedupeKey, { stale: true }, 86400);
    return;
  } // stale event guard

  if (evt.event === 'meeting.started') current.status = 'in_progress';
  if (evt.event === 'meeting.ended') current.status = 'ended';
  if (evt.event === 'meeting.participant_joined') current.participants += 1;
  if (evt.event === 'meeting.participant_left') current.participants = Math.max(0, current.participants - 1);
  current.lastEventTs = evt.event_ts;

  await stateStore.put(id, current);
  await dedupe.put(dedupeKey, { ok: true }, 86400);
}
Express raw-body setup (required for signature verification)
app.use(express.json({
  verify: (req: any, _res, buf) => {
    req.rawBody = buf.toString('utf8');
  },
}));

Retry + Circuit Breaker Example (TypeScript)

type RetryOptions = {
  retries: number;
  baseMs: number;
  maxMs: number;
};

function sleep(ms: number) {
  return new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
}

function backoff(attempt: number, baseMs: number, maxMs: number) {
  const exp = Math.min(maxMs, baseMs * 2 ** attempt);
  const jitter = Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.min(250, exp / 4));
  return exp + jitter;
}

export async function retry<T>(fn: () => Promise<T>, opts: RetryOptions, isRetriable: (e: any) => boolean): Promise<T> {
  let lastErr: any;
  for (let i = 0; i <= opts.retries; i += 1) {
    try {
      return await fn();
    } catch (e) {
      lastErr = e;
      if (i === opts.retries || !isRetriable(e)) break;
      await sleep(backoff(i, opts.baseMs, opts.maxMs));
    }
  }
  throw lastErr;
}

export class CircuitBreaker {
  private failures = 0;
  private openUntil = 0;

  constructor(private threshold = 5, private coolDownMs = 15_000) {}

  canCall() {
    return Date.now() > this.openUntil;
  }

  recordSuccess() {
    this.failures = 0;
  }

  recordFailure() {
    this.failures += 1;
    if (this.failures >= this.threshold) {
      this.openUntil = Date.now() + this.coolDownMs;
    }
  }
}

Reconciliation Poller Example (Fallback for Missed Events)

export async function reconcileMeetingState(
  meetingId: string,
  hostUserId: string,
  deps: {
    tokenBroker: { getToken: () => Promise<string> };
    stateStore: { get: (id: string) => Promise<any>; put: (id: string, v: any) => Promise<void> };
  },
) {
  const token = await deps.tokenBroker.getToken();
  const res = await fetch(`https://api.zoom.us/v2/meetings/${encodeURIComponent(meetingId)}`, {
    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
  });
  if (!res.ok) return;

  const apiState = await res.json();
  const projected = (await deps.stateStore.get(meetingId)) || {};
  const merged = {
    ...projected,
    status: apiState.status || projected.status,
    topic: apiState.topic || projected.topic,
    hostId: hostUserId,
    reconciledAt: Date.now(),
  };
  await deps.stateStore.put(meetingId, merged);
}

Distributed Coordination and Load-Balancing Considerations

  • Partition command/event streams by meetingId or hostUserId so all updates for one meeting land on the same consumer shard.

  • Use a distributed lock for shared singleton jobs (token refresh rotation, reconciliation scheduler leader).

  • Keep webhook ingress stateless so horizontal autoscaling is safe behind L4/L7 load balancers.

  • Apply queue consumer concurrency limits to protect downstream Zoom API quotas.

Redis-Style Lock Skeleton
export async function withLock(lock: { acquire: (k: string, ttlMs: number) => Promise<boolean>; release: (k: string) => Promise<void> }, key: string, fn: () => Promise<void>) {
  const got = await lock.acquire(key, 10_000);
  if (!got) return;
  try {
    await fn();
  } finally {
    await lock.release(key);
  }
}

Token Broker Example (Cached Refresh + Distributed Lock)

type CachedToken = { accessToken: string; expiresAtMs: number };

export class TokenBroker {
  constructor(
    private cache: { get: (k: string) => Promise<CachedToken | null>; put: (k: string, v: CachedToken, ttlSec: number) => Promise<void> },
    private lock: { acquire: (k: string, ttlMs: number) => Promise<boolean>; release: (k: string) => Promise<void> },
    private fetchToken: () => Promise<{ access_token: string; expires_in: number }>,
  ) {}

  async getToken(): Promise<string> {
    const cached = await this.cache.get('zoom:s2s-token');
    const now = Date.now();
    if (cached && cached.expiresAtMs - now > 60_000) {
      return cached.accessToken;
    }

    const gotLock = await this.lock.acquire('zoom:s2s-token:refresh', 10_000);
    if (!gotLock) {
      await sleep(200);
      const retryCached = await this.cache.get('zoom:s2s-token');
      if (retryCached && retryCached.expiresAtMs - Date.now() > 30_000) {
        return retryCached.accessToken;
      }
      throw new Error('token_refresh_lock_contention');
    }

    try {
      const fresh = await this.fetchToken();
      const value = {
        accessToken: fresh.access_token,
        expiresAtMs: Date.now() + fresh.expires_in * 1000,
      };
      await this.cache.put('zoom:s2s-token', value, Math.max(60, fresh.expires_in - 90));
      return value.accessToken;
    } finally {
      await this.lock.release('zoom:s2s-token:refresh');
    }
  }
}

High-Volume Create Worker (Concurrency + Rate Protection)

type CreateJob = CreateMeetingInput & { attempts: number };

class TokenBucket {
  private tokens: number;
  private lastRefill = Date.now();

  constructor(private readonly capacity: number, private readonly refillPerSec: number) {
    this.tokens = capacity;
  }

  async take() {
    while (true) {
      const now = Date.now();
      const elapsedSec = (now - this.lastRefill) / 1000;
      this.tokens = Math.min(this.capacity, this.tokens + elapsedSec * this.refillPerSec);
      this.lastRefill = now;
      if (this.tokens >= 1) {
        this.tokens -= 1;
        return;
      }
      await sleep(100);
    }
  }
}

export async function runCreateWorker(
  queue: { receiveBatch: (n: number) => Promise<CreateJob[]>; ack: (job: CreateJob) => Promise<void>; retryLater: (job: CreateJob, delayMs: number) => Promise<void> },
  deps: {
    createMeeting: (job: CreateJob) => Promise<void>;
    breaker: CircuitBreaker;
    limiter: TokenBucket;
  },
  concurrency = 8,
) {
  while (true) {
    const jobs = await queue.receiveBatch(concurrency);
    await Promise.all(jobs.map(async (job) => {
      if (!deps.breaker.canCall()) {
        await queue.retryLater(job, 30_000);
        return;
      }

      try {
        await deps.limiter.take();
        await deps.createMeeting(job);
        deps.breaker.recordSuccess();
        await queue.ack(job);
      } catch (e: any) {
        deps.breaker.recordFailure();
        const delay = backoff(job.attempts, 500, 60_000);
        await queue.retryLater({ ...job, attempts: job.attempts + 1 }, delay);
      }
    }));
  }
}

Reconciliation Scheduler (Lag Detection + Leader Election)

export async function reconcileLaggingMeetings(
  deps: {
    lock: { acquire: (k: string, ttlMs: number) => Promise<boolean>; release: (k: string) => Promise<void> };
    stateStore: { listLagging: (ageMs: number, limit: number) => Promise<Array<{ meetingId: string; hostUserId: string }>> };
    reconcile: (meetingId: string, hostUserId: string) => Promise<void>;
  },
) {
  await withLock(deps.lock, 'zoom:reconcile:leader', async () => {
    const lagging = await deps.stateStore.listLagging(5 * 60_000, 250);
    for (const item of lagging) {
      await deps.reconcile(item.meetingId, item.hostUserId);
    }
  });
}

DLQ Replay Worker

export async function replayDlq(
  dlq: { receiveBatch: (n: number) => Promise<any[]>; ack: (msg: any) => Promise<void>; moveBack: (topic: string, msg: any) => Promise<void> },
  topic = 'meeting.create.delayed',
) {
  const failed = await dlq.receiveBatch(100);
  for (const msg of failed) {
    await dlq.moveBack(topic, { ...msg, replayedAt: Date.now() });
    await dlq.ack(msg);
  }
}

Distributed State Rules

  • Meeting state is event-sourced or projection-based, not only request-response based.

  • Persist last_seen_event_ts and status transitions to handle out-of-order events.

  • Add monotonic transition guards (e.g., do not move ended -> in_progress).

Fallback Matrix

FailurePrimary responseFallback
Token refresh failureRetry token exchangeFail fast + alert + pause new create requests
REST 429 / 5xxRetry w/ backoffQueue command for delayed retry
Webhook verification failureReject 401Alert security pipeline
Webhook processor downBuffer in queueDLQ + replay job
Missing webhook eventDetect via reconciliation lagREST poll and repair projection
Dependency outageOpen circuit breakerServe degraded status + queued commands

Requirements and compatibility

Written for: OpenAI Codex

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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