build-zoom-video-sdk-app

build-zoom-video-sdk-app is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 39 tokens per session (3,317 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reference for building custom video-session products with the Zoom Video SDK. The SDK is software that lets an application use Zoom's video infrastructure while the developer controls the session experience and interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or build applications with custom video sessions, custom rendering, participant joining, and either prebuilt React components or a fully custom interface.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a custom video session from a regular Zoom meeting and prevents using meeting-specific join fields or REST endpoints for the wrong job.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Need help with OAuth or signatures?** See the **[zoom-oauth](../oauth/SKILL.md)** skill for authentication flows..

Part of the zoom-plugin plugin — 43 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan or build applications with custom video sessions, custom rendering, participant joining, and either prebuilt React components or a fully custom interface.

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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 · 23,911 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/video-sdk

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zoom-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,317 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.03317
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01658
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00663
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00332

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0c2e14022346, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-zoom-video-sdk-app scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d ago.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://source.zoom.us/videosdk/zoom-video-1.12.0.min.js" -o js/zoom-video-sdk.min.js
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

partner-built/zoom-plugin/skills/video-sdk/SKILL.md · 373 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/build-zoom-video-sdk-app

Background reference for fully custom video-session products. Prefer plan-zoom-product first when the boundary between Meeting SDK and Video SDK is still unclear.

Build custom video experiences powered by Zoom's infrastructure.

Hard Routing Guardrail (Read First)

  • If the user asks for custom real-time video app behavior (topic/session join, custom rendering, attach/detach), route to Video SDK.
  • Do not switch to REST meeting endpoints for Video SDK join flows.
  • Video SDK does not use Meeting IDs, join_url, or Meeting SDK join payload fields (meetingNumber, passWord).

Meeting SDK vs Video SDK

Feature Meeting SDK Video SDK
UI Default Zoom UI or Custom UI Fully custom UI (you build it)
Experience Zoom meetings Video sessions
Branding Limited customization Full branding control
Features Full Zoom features Core video features

UI Options (Web)

Video SDK gives you full control over the UI:

Option Description
UI Toolkit Pre-built React components (low-code)
Custom UI Build your own UI using the SDK APIs

Prerequisites

  • Zoom Video SDK credentials from Marketplace
  • SDK Key and Secret
  • Web development environment

Need help with OAuth or signatures? See the zoom-oauth skill for authentication flows.

Need pre-join diagnostics on web? Use probe-sdk before Video SDK join() to reduce first-minute failures.

Start troubleshooting fast: Use the 5-Minute Runbook before deep debugging.

Quick Start (Web)

NPM Usage (Bundler like Vite/Webpack)

import ZoomVideo from '@zoom/videosdk';

const client = ZoomVideo.createClient();
await client.init('en-US', 'Global', { patchJsMedia: true });
await client.join(topic, signature, userName, password);

// IMPORTANT: getMediaStream() ONLY works AFTER join()
const stream = client.getMediaStream();
await stream.startVideo();
await stream.startAudio();

Read the full file on GitHub · 373 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 373 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 0c2e14022346

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-zoom-video-sdk-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,911 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,317 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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