design-mcp-workflow

design-mcp-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex 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 CodeCodex

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

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/zoom/zoom-plugin/design-mcp-workflow
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, Codex.

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. 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 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 5d ago against content hash 42f3a3824904, 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 5d 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. 5d ago First seen · 33 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 42f3a3824904

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design-mcp-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository zoom/zoom-plugin (7 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 315 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 2026-08-30.

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