choose-zoom-approach
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Use when choosing architecture.
🧩 One of 7 skills in the openai/plugins package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.
This is the playbook your agent receives when the skill activates — you don't need to read it to use the skill, but it's here to audit before installing.
Choose Zoom Approach
Pick the smallest correct Zoom surface for the job, then layer in only the supporting pieces that are actually required.
Decision Framework
| Problem Type | Primary Zoom Surface |
|---|---|
| Deterministic backend automation, account management, reporting, scheduled jobs | rest-api |
| Event delivery to your backend | webhooks or websockets |
| Embed Zoom meetings into your app | meeting-sdk |
| Build a fully custom video experience | video-sdk |
| Build inside the Zoom client | zoom-apps-sdk |
| Real-time media extraction or meeting bots | rtms plus meeting-sdk when needed |
| Phone workflows | phone |
| Contact Center or Virtual Agent flows | contact-center or virtual-agent |
Guardrails
- Do not recommend Video SDK when the user actually needs Zoom meeting semantics.
- Do not recommend Meeting SDK when the user needs a fully custom session product.
- Keep deterministic backend automation in REST APIs and event-driven code.
What To Produce
- One recommended path
- Minimum supporting components
- Hard constraints and tradeoffs
- Immediate next implementation step
Copy & paste — that's it
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/plugins --skill choose-zoom-approachRun this in your project — your agent picks the skill up automatically.
No common issues documented yet. If you hit a problem, the repository's GitHub Issues page is the best place to look.