design-mcp-workflow

design-mcp-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 41 tokens per session (276 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning guide for using Zoom through MCP, a standard way for AI clients to call tools, alongside Zoom's REST API. It helps separate interactive AI workflows from fixed backend automation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether a Zoom task needs MCP, REST API calls, or both, including workflows involving Zoom Whiteboard.
Why use it?
It prevents developers from using MCP for jobs better handled by normal API code, or treating MCP as a replacement for every Zoom integration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the zoom-plugin plugin — 15 skills shipped together

About the project

Knowledge Work Plugins is an open-source collection of Claude extensions organized around roles such as productivity, sales, and customer support. Each plugin combines role-specific guidance, connectors, commands, and sub-agents so knowledge workers can use Claude with their team’s tools and processes. The catalogue entries are examples of, or workflows from, this plugin collection.

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins · 23,849 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/design-mcp-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill design-mcp-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install zoom-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 276 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00041 $0.00276
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00138
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 74674428bc0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-mcp-workflow scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/design-mcp-workflow/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Design MCP Workflow

Use this skill when the user wants Claude or another MCP-capable client to interact with Zoom via tool calls instead of only deterministic API code.

Covers

  • MCP fit assessment
  • REST API vs MCP boundaries
  • Hybrid architectures
  • Connector expectations
  • Whiteboard-specific MCP routing

Workflow

  1. Decide whether the problem is agentic tooling, deterministic automation, or both.
  2. Route MCP-only tasks to zoom-mcp.
  3. Route hybrid tasks to both zoom-mcp and rest-api.
  4. If Whiteboard is central, route to zoom-mcp/whiteboard.
  5. Call out transport, auth, and client capability assumptions explicitly.

Common Mistakes

  • Using MCP for deterministic backend jobs that should stay in REST
  • Treating MCP as a replacement for all API design
  • Ignoring client transport support and auth requirements
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 32 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 74674428bc0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-mcp-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,849 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 276 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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