Build Zoom Team Chat App

From the author

Use when building Team Chat.

— the description by Zoom

AutoGineer summary

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This skill provides a systematic approach to building applications for Zoom Team Chat. It guides developers through selecting the appropriate API surface, configuring app settings, modeling message structures, and implementing secure authentication and webhook handling. It covers the lifecycle of building both user-scoped messaging integrations and interactive chatbot workflows.

What it does

Helps select between Team Chat API and Chatbot API based on integration requirements.
Outlines the configuration of app types, scopes, and role enablement.
Provides guidance on modeling message structures including rich cards, forms, and slash commands.
Details the implementation of OAuth flows and token management.
Supports the setup of webhook handlers with signature verification.
Assists in debugging common issues related to JID formats, channel membership, and payload shapes.

When to use it

When you need to integrate custom messaging or automation into Zoom Team Chat.
When designing interactive chatbot workflows with buttons, forms, or dropdowns.
When setting up OAuth authentication for Zoom-based applications.
When troubleshooting connectivity or message delivery issues in a Zoom integration.

Advantages

Provides a clear, step-by-step path for Zoom app development.
Ensures security best practices like signature verification are prioritized.
Helps avoid common pitfalls in API selection and message formatting.
Centralizes references for environment variables and API endpoints.

Usage examples

“How do I start building a chatbot for Zoom Team Chat?”: The agent will guide you through choosing the Chatbot API, configuring the bot identity, and setting up the necessary OAuth and webhook infrastructure.
“I am getting an invalid access token error when sending messages.”: The agent will help you verify your app type, check if the required scopes are enabled, and confirm if the user has re-consented after recent scope changes.

Install

Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/openai/build-zoom-team-chat-app/download

Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip build-zoom-team-chat-app.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Zoom

Use this skill when the target surface is Zoom Team Chat. First decide whether the integration is user-scoped messaging, a chatbot, an interactive message-card workflow, or a webhook-driven automation.

Workflow

Choose the API surface: Team Chat API for user-scoped actions, Chatbot API for bot identity and chatbot workflows.
Confirm app type, scopes, role enablement, and whether the account has Zoom for Developers enabled.
Model message structure before coding: plain messages, rich cards, buttons, dropdowns, forms, slash commands, and threaded replies.
Implement OAuth and token refresh separately from message sending, with clear storage boundaries.
Add webhook handlers for interactivity and lifecycle events with signature verification and retry-safe processing.
Debug by checking JID formats, channel membership, bot installation, scopes, role settings, and message-card payload shape.

References

Full preserved guide: references/full-guide.md
API selection: concepts/api-selection.md
Message structure: concepts/message-structure.md
Message cards: references/message-cards.md
Scopes: references/scopes.md
Chatbot setup: examples/chatbot-setup.md
Common issues: troubleshooting/common-issues.md

Files

ATTRIBUTION.mdAdded by AutoGineer880 B
LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer1.1 KiB
RUNBOOK.md2.7 KiB
SKILL.md1.5 KiB
agents/openai.yaml145 B
concepts/api-selection.md7.3 KiB
concepts/authentication.md1.4 KiB
concepts/deployment.md719 B
concepts/environment-setup.md8.8 KiB
concepts/message-structure.md675 B
concepts/security.md478 B
concepts/webhooks.md11.8 KiB
examples/button-actions.md393 B
examples/channel-management.md320 B
examples/chatbot-setup.md12.2 KiB
examples/database-integration.md312 B
examples/dropdown-selects.md304 B
examples/form-submissions.md385 B
examples/llm-integration.md532 B
examples/multi-step-workflows.md300 B
examples/oauth-setup.md1.6 KiB
examples/scheduled-alerts.md352 B
examples/send-message.md417 B
examples/slash-commands.md509 B
examples/token-management.md442 B
get-started.md1.6 KiB
references/api-reference.md538 B
references/environment-variables.md1006 B
references/error-codes.md448 B
references/full-guide.md22.9 KiB
references/jid-formats.md247 B
references/message-cards.md6.6 KiB
references/rate-limits.md205 B
references/sample-comparison.md1.1 KiB
references/samples.md14.2 KiB
references/scopes.md340 B
references/webhook-events.md564 B
troubleshooting/common-issues.md9.7 KiB
troubleshooting/deployment-issues.md641 B
troubleshooting/message-issues.md317 B
troubleshooting/oauth-issues.md882 B
troubleshooting/webhook-issues.md364 B

ATTRIBUTION.md

Attribution

This folder is an unmodified copy of the Agent Skill "build-zoom-team-chat-app", distributed by AutoGineer (https://autogineer.com/agent-skills).

Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/d420d13051bffe4543ed39e30fa46b87148e47dd/plugins/zoom/skills/team-chat
Commit: d420d13051bffe4543ed39e30fa46b87148e47dd
Created by: Zoom (https://github.com/zoom)
Publisher: OpenAI (https://github.com/openai)
Licence: MIT License (https://github.com/openai/plugins/blob/d420d13051bffe4543ed39e30fa46b87148e47dd/plugins/zoom/LICENSE)
Licence evidence: licence file plugins/zoom/LICENSE
Retrieved: 2026-11-07

The skill's own files are unmodified copies. AutoGineer is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author or the publisher.

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ATTRIBUTION.md: this file, written by AutoGineer
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