How to connect Zoom to Claude Cowork

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Zoom account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to schedule a Zoom meeting for tomorrow, add a registrant to your next webinar, summarize your last recorded meeting, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Zoom to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Zoom account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Zoom or give it any Zoom-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Schedule a Zoom meeting for tomorrow"
  • "Add a registrant to your next webinar"
  • "Summarize your last recorded meeting"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Zoom account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Zoom through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Zoom MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Zoom MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Zoom account. It provides structured and secure access to your meetings, webinars, and usage data, so your agent can schedule meetings, register attendees, retrieve recordings, summarize sessions, and analyze participant engagement on your behalf.

  • Automated meeting scheduling and management: Instruct your agent to create new Zoom meetings, fetch details for upcoming or past meetings, and manage all your session logistics effortlessly.
  • Seamless participant and registrant registration: Have your agent add attendees or registrants to meetings and webinars, handling all required information and permissions automatically.
  • On-demand access to recordings and summaries: Let your agent retrieve meeting recordings or generate AI-powered meeting summaries, making it easy to review or share past sessions.
  • Insightful participant analytics: Ask your agent to fetch detailed lists of past meeting participants or generate daily usage reports, helping you track engagement and attendance trends.
  • Efficient recording and data cleanup: Direct your agent to delete outdated recordings or manage your Zoom storage, keeping your account streamlined and organized.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Add a meeting registrantThis text guides on creating and customizing a user's registration for a zoom meeting, with a max of 4,999 registrants.
Add a webinar registrantZoom users with a webinar plan can create and manage webinars, broadcasting to up to 10,000 attendees.
Create a meetingEnable zoom meeting creation via user-level apps with "me".
Delete meeting recordingsSummary: to delete all meeting recordings, ensure the user's account has cloud recording enabled.
Get a meetingThe text provides details on api permissions for reading meeting information, categorizing permissions into general and granular scopes, and labels the rate limit as 'light'.
Get a meeting summaryMeeting summary info requires a pro+ host plan, ai companion enabled, excluding e2ee meetings.
Get a webinarAccess zoom webinar details requires pro or higher plan and webinar add-on.
Get daily usage reportThe daily report provides zoom service usage details, like new users, meetings, participants, and minutes per day for a month, requiring a pro plan or higher.
Get meeting recordingsTo download meeting recordings, use `download url`.
Get past meeting participantsApi allows paid users (pro+) to fetch past meeting attendee info, excluding solo participants.
List all recordingsThis text details how to list zoom cloud recordings for a user, notably by using "me" for user-level apps and requiring an oauth token for access.
List archived filesZoom's archiving solution enables administrators to automatically record and archive meeting data to third-party platforms for compliance, needing the meeting and webinar archiving feature enabled.
List devicesThis api lets you list devices.
List meetingsThis zoom api lists a user's scheduled meetings using the `me` value for user-level apps, excluding instant meetings and only showing unexpired ones.
List webinar participantsGet a list of past webinar participants with a pro plan or above plus an add-on.
List webinarsThe api lists all scheduled webinars for zoom users with a webinar plan, using `me` for user-level apps.
Update a meetingTo update a meeting via api, ensure `start time` is future-dated; `recurrence` is needed.

Available tools and triggers

After setup, the supported Zoom tools and triggers listed on this page are available to Cowork through Composio Connect.

You can now ask Cowork to handle Zoom workflows in natural language, from quick summaries and drafting tasks to more complex multi-step work across connected apps.

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Zoom MCP?

With a standalone Zoom MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Zoom tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Zoom and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Can I use Tool Router MCP with Claude Cowork?

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Zoom tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Zoom while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Zoom scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Zoom data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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