Announcing Agent Skills for the Zoom Developer Platform

We are excited to introduce Agent Skills, now available on GitHub! This is a new way for developers to build faster, smarter, and more innovative applications on Zoom. These skills give your coding agent context to easily perform complex programming tasks when building with the Zoom Developer Platform.

Why you should start building with Agent Skills today

1. Higher accuracy for coding agents

By giving your coding agent a set of defined skills, you ensure it follows an established framework instead of guessing. Rather than speculating about how to call a Zoom API or structure an integration, the agent can use a pre-defined skill to complete the task more accurately.

2. Handle complex, multi-step tasks

Agent Skills help your coding agent reason through workflows that involve multiple systems and several stages of execution. For example, your agent can work through a sequence like pulling a transcript, identifying action items, and then updating a third-party CRM without losing track of the overall flow.

3. Accelerated development and streamlined troubleshooting

Agent Skills reduce the trial-and-error that often comes with heavy prompt engineering. Because the technical context is already defined, your coding agent can spend less time making incorrect assumptions and you can spend less time debugging failed executions.

See it in action

Ready to see how it works? Watch this Getting Started Video to see a step-by-step walkthrough of how to load and utilize Agent Skills for the Zoom Developer Platform:

Watch the "Getting Started" video

Agent Skills loading in 3 steps

Step 1: Clone the repository

Run the following command in your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/zoom/skills

Step 2: Load the skills

Open your favorite CLI and ask your coding agent to load the skills using one of these commands:

  • From local directory: load these skills located at ~/skills
  • From GitHub directly: load these skills located at https://github.com/zoom/skills

Step 3: Verify the installation

  • Restart your CLI
  • Verify successful loading by asking your coding agent: what are the list of skills that are loaded?

It's as easy as that! Now your agent can build with an established knowledge of Zoom skills.

Implementation resources

You can begin integrating Agent Skills into your project using the resources below: