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Claude + Zoom

The Zoom-for-Claude connector — what it is, how it works, and how to switch it on.

Claude reaches into Zoom's meeting archive over MCP. Read-only, past meetings, no live join. Here's the enable path from a Claude Max seat.

TL;DR — the one-screen answer

What it is: the Zoom for Claude connector — an MCP connector Zoom built (with Anthropic), launched ~9 April 2026. It lets Claude pull your Zoom meeting summaries, transcripts, recordings and assets into Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Direction of travel: Claude → Zoom (Claude the client, Zoom the data source). It does not put Claude inside a live call.

Claude plan (Max)

✓ Supported

Directory connectors + Cowork ship on every paid tier — Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise. No upgrade needed.

The real gate

Zoom side

Needs a Zoom Workplace Pro+ licence with AI Companion Smart Recording + Meeting Summary on.

What it can't do

No live agent

No joining calls, no real-time, no event triggers — only scheduled sweeps of past meetings.

Best for

Recaps & follow-ups

Search past meetings, pull transcripts and summaries, and turn them into action items inside Claude.

Not the image zoom tool: Claude's image "zoom tool" is a different feature, where Claude requests a high-res crop of a downscaled image. This guide covers Zoom, the meeting platform.

1. What it is

A first-party MCP connector that makes Zoom's meeting intelligence available inside Claude — built by Zoom, in partnership with Anthropic.

Product

Zoom for Claude connector

Listed in Claude's Connectors Directory; a Claude Code plugin variant also exists.

Ships from

Zoom × Anthropic

Zoom authored the connector on the open MCP standard; joint go-to-market.

Launched

~9 Apr 2026

Zoom newsroom + NoJitter coverage; rolled out through Q2 2026.

Direction

Claude → Zoom

Claude is the agent; Zoom is a read data source. Not "Claude in a Zoom call."

Access model

Read / retrieval

Past meeting assets only. No writes to calls, no live participation.

One-line what's new

Meeting data → agent workflow

Your Zoom archive becomes queryable, actionable context for Claude.

The shape in one sentence: ask Claude in plain English — "recap Tuesday's product review, pull the action items, draft the follow-up" — and it searches your Zoom meetings, reads the AI summary + transcript + recording, and produces the artifact. The intelligence Zoom already generates (AI Companion) now flows into an agent that can act on it.

2. How it works

Three stages: Zoom generates the assets, an OAuth-scoped MCP server exposes them, Claude consumes and acts.

Diagram — the retrieval pipeline

① Zoom Cloud

AI Companion runs on your calls
Smart Recording + Meeting Summary
Transcripts, recordings, whiteboards, docs

➜MCP
+OAuth

② Zoom MCP server

OAuth 2.0 user consent
Scoped, per-user token
Exposes ~7 read tools
Callback ▸ claude.ai/api/mcp/auth_callback

➜tool
calls

③ Claude

Cowork · Code · claude.ai chat
Searches & reads meeting assets
Recaps, action items, follow-up docs
Runs on a schedule (not on triggers)

The connector never joins a meeting. It calls Zoom's API after the fact, on your behalf, using a token you authorize once. Everything Claude sees is an asset AI Companion already produced. Source: Zoom newsroom; Zoom Developer Docs (Zoom for Claude connector).

The tools it exposes (what Claude can actually call)

Table 1 — Default Zoom MCP tools
Tool	Does	Kind
search_meetings	Find meetings by natural-language query	read
get_meeting_assets	Pull summary, transcript, docs, whiteboards for a meeting	read
recordings_list	List available cloud recordings	read
get_recording_resource	Fetch a specific recording + playback URL	read
search_zoom / get_file_content	Search across Zoom content; read a file's contents	read
create_new_file_with_markdown	Write a follow-up doc back as a file	write (doc)

Six of seven are read-only; the only write path creates a new markdown document — it never modifies or joins a live call. Tool names per Zoom's zoom-plugin skill docs; exact set may evolve.

3. How to enable it — the stepper

Your Claude Max seat is not the blocker. The prerequisites live on the Zoom side — clear those first.

Prerequisite checklist — clear before you start:

✓Claude plan: Claude Max qualifies. Directory connectors + Cowork are on every paid tier. Nothing to upgrade.
!Zoom licence: a licensed Zoom Workplace Pro (or higher) account — the free tier will not work.
!Zoom AI Companion: Smart Recording and Meeting Summary must be turned on (that's what generates the assets Claude reads).
!Admin rights: enabling those AI Companion features, and approving the app, may require Zoom account owner/admin privileges. If you're not admin on the Zoom account, you'll need them to flip these.
✓Meeting ownership: you can only read assets for meetings you hosted or were explicitly given access to.

Path A — Claude.ai / Cowork

The one-click route. Do this one.

Zoom admin

Turn on the AI features

In the Zoom admin console, enable AI Companion → Smart Recording and Meeting Summary. Record at least one meeting so there's data to read.

claude.ai ▸ Settings ▸ Connectors

Open the Connectors Directory

In Claude, go to Settings → Connectors (a.k.a. the Connectors Directory) and search for "Zoom".

Connector card

Connect + authorize (OAuth)

Click Connect on "Zoom for Claude." A Zoom sign-in window opens — review the requested scopes and Authorize. This is the consent step; approve it yourself.

Back in Claude

Verify it works

New chat → toggle the Zoom connector on → ask: "Search my recent Zoom meetings and summarize the last one." A result = you're live.

Path B — Claude Code

For the developer / plugin route.

marketplace.zoom.us

Create a Zoom OAuth app

Develop → Build App → General app, user-level OAuth. Add redirect URL https://claude.ai/api/mcp/auth_callback.

terminal

Install the plugin + token

Add Zoom's zoom-plugin, then export your token:
export ZOOM_MCP_ACCESS_TOKEN="…" and restart the plugin.

Claude Code

Run the setup command

Run /setup-zoom-mcp to finish wiring and design the workflow.

Claude Code

Verify the tools

Confirm the client lists the 7 Zoom tools (search_meetings …). If they appear, you're connected.

Bottom line on gating: nothing on Claude's side stops you — Max is enough. The honest catch is Zoom: you need a paid Zoom Workplace Pro+ licence with AI Companion enabled, and turning those settings on (plus approving the app) can require Zoom admin rights. If your Zoom is free, or you're not its admin, that's the step to resolve first — not Claude.

Claude Max is enough on Claude's side — the gate is a paid Zoom licence with AI Companion on.

It's a read-only, post-meeting retrieval connector: powerful for recaps and action items, and not built for live participation in a call.

References

All URLs accessed 24 July 2026. primary = Zoom/Anthropic-published; secondary = third-party, corroborating.

Primary — Zoom / Anthropic

primary Zoom newsroom — "Zoom unlocks meeting intelligence for AI workflows with Claude" — news.zoom.com/zoom-meeting-intelligence-in-claude
primary Zoom Developer Docs — Zoom for Claude Connector — developers.zoom.us/docs/mcp/plug-ins-and-connectors/claude-connector
primary Zoom Developer Docs — Connect to Zoom MCP Servers — developers.zoom.us/docs/mcp/servers/connect-to-zoom-mcp-servers
primary Zoom zoom-plugin — Claude plugin + zoom-mcp skill / OAuth setup — github.com/zoom/zoom-plugin
primary @claudedevs — image "zoom tool" cookbook (naming collision, not the video product) — x.com/claudedevs/status/2080434253175943400

Secondary — coverage & analysis

secondary NoJitter — "Zoom accelerates work with Claude Cowork and Code" — nojitter.com/…/zoom-accelerates-work-with-claude-cowork-and-code
secondary UC Today — "Zoom Launches MCP Connector for Claude" — uctoday.com/…/zoom-launches-mcp-connector-for-claude
secondary useCarly — "Claude + Zoom: What the Integration Can (and Can't) Do in 2026" (the "no event triggers" analysis) — usecarly.com/blog/claude-zoom-integration
secondary Merge.dev — "How to connect a Zoom MCP with Claude Code (4 steps)" — merge.dev/blog/zoom-mcp-claude-code
secondary Claude plan/Cowork tiering (Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise) — usecarly.com/blog/claude-cowork-pricing