design-mcp-workflow

design-mcp-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from zoom/zoom-plugin. It costs 41 tokens per session (315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for deciding how Claude or another AI client should use Zoom tools. MCP is a way for an AI client to call connected tools, while a REST API is a standard way for software to make direct requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between Zoom MCP, Zoom's REST API, or both; plan Whiteboard workflows; and identify when a Zoom Marketplace app must be registered.
Why use it?
It helps prevent using AI tool calls for jobs that should be predictable API code, or designing a mixed workflow without clear responsibilities. It also makes assumptions about login, connection methods, and client support explicit.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the zoom-plugin plugin — 47 skills, 7 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose between Zoom MCP, Zoom's REST API, or both; plan Whiteboard workflows; and identify when a Zoom Marketplace app must be registered.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zoom/zoom-plugin/design-mcp-workflow
About the project

Zoom Plugin is a Claude plugin that helps plan, build, and debug Zoom integrations across APIs, SDKs, webhooks, bots, and MCP connections. It is for developers creating Zoom applications, with catalogue entries providing guidance, workflows, and MCP connectors for selecting and implementing the relevant Zoom products.

zoom/zoom-plugin · 7 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.

Any agent
npx skills add zoom/zoom-plugin --skill design-mcp-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zoom/zoom-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zoom-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 7 MCP servers.

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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 315 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00041 $0.00315
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00126
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 42f3a3824904, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

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.

skills/design-mcp-workflow/SKILL.md · 33 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. If the client needs manual app registration, route to setup-zoom-marketplace-app and select the matching MCP template.
  6. 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. 1mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 42f3a3824904

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-mcp-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository zoom/zoom-plugin (7 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 315 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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