# build-zoom-team-chat-app

Guides development for Zoom Team Chat apps and bots. It outlines API choice, message-card design, OAuth token handling, and webhook verification.

- skill · `type=skill` · Codex, ChatGPT · ★ 7604
- Author: Zoom · official OpenAI repository
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/zoom/skills/team-chat/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/build-zoom-team-chat-app

## What it does

This skill guides you through creating Zoom Team Chat integrations. It starts by separating user-scoped operations via the Team Chat API from dedicated bot identities using the Chatbot API. The skill prompts you to model payloads before writing application code. That covers plain text, rich cards, forms, dropdowns, buttons, and slash commands.

Authentication logic stays separated from message delivery. You handle OAuth handshakes and token refreshes in an isolated storage layer. Incoming webhooks require request signature validation and retry-safe event processing. Without Zoom for Developers enabled on your Zoom account, app creation cannot proceed. Debugging steps cover JID formats, channel memberships, scopes, and card schemas.

## Install

### Codex (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill team-chat -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/team-chat/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Claude Code

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill team-chat -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/team-chat/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/team-chat/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/team-chat/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install openai/plugins team-chat
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/team-chat/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/openai/plugins --path plugins/zoom/skills/team-chat
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/team-chat/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/zoom/skills/team-chat/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- select between Team Chat API and Chatbot API for a project
- structure interactive message cards with buttons and dropdowns
- separate OAuth token refreshes from message delivery code
- verify webhook signatures with retry-safe event handlers
- diagnose errors in JID formatting, channel access, and scopes

## Example prompts
- Help me build an interactive message card with dropdowns for Zoom Team Chat
- Set up a webhook listener with signature verification for Zoom chat events
- Configure OAuth storage and token refresh routines for the Zoom Chatbot API

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: build-zoom-team-chat-app
description: Use when building Team Chat.
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# Build Zoom Team Chat App

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

1. Choose the API surface: Team Chat API for user-scoped actions, Chatbot API for bot identity and chatbot workflows.
2. Confirm app type, scopes, role enablement, and whether the account has Zoom for Developers enabled.
3. Model message structure before coding: plain messages, rich cards, buttons, dropdowns, forms, slash commands, and threaded replies.
4. Implement OAuth and token refresh separately from message sending, with clear storage boundaries.
5. Add webhook handlers for interactivity and lifecycle events with signature verification and retry-safe processing.
6. 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](references/full-guide.md)
- API selection: [concepts/api-selection.md](concepts/api-selection.md)
- Message structure: [concepts/message-structure.md](concepts/message-structure.md)
- Message cards: [references/message-cards.md](references/message-cards.md)
- Scopes: [references/scopes.md](references/scopes.md)
- Chatbot setup: [examples/chatbot-setup.md](examples/chatbot-setup.md)
- Common issues: [troubleshooting/common-issues.md](troubleshooting/common-issues.md)
```
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