build-zoom-meeting-app

This is a lightweight routing and planning skill for building Zoom meeting experiences. It helps a developer decide how to embed or implement a Zoom meeting flow and, critically, which Zoom product surface to use, addressing the common confusion between the Meeting SDK (for real Zoom meetings) and the Video SDK (for custom video sessions).

Rather than shipping implementation code itself, the skill provides a short decision workflow and a set of pointers to sibling reference skills. It covers Meeting SDK selection and platform routing, join and authentication planning, meeting creation plus join-flow design, web versus native platform considerations, and the boundary between Meeting SDK and Video SDK. Its workflow directs the developer to confirm whether they need an actual Zoom meeting or a custom session, route to the Meeting SDK accordingly, pull in the relevant platform references (meeting-sdk, rest-api, webhooks, rtms, video-sdk), and add REST API, webhooks, or RTMS only when the use case explicitly requires them. It also calls out common mistakes such as misusing the Video SDK for normal meeting embeds and mixing resource-management APIs into the core join flow.

It targets developers and solution architects integrating Zoom into web or mobile applications who need help choosing the right SDK and structuring the join lifecycle. Because it mainly orchestrates other reference skills, it is best understood as a decision guide rather than a deep standalone implementation resource.