When Zoom Search is enabled for your organization, connect your own account to find past meetings and read available artifacts. It uses Member accounts and the official Zoom Meetings MCP server, separately from workflow OAuth connections.
Connect
Zoom Search requires deployment enablement and organization access before setup or retrieval is available. Ask your admin about availability if Zoom is missing.
- An admin adds Zoom → Member accounts in Settings → Sources.
- Each person selects Integrations → Zoom → ⋯ → Connect, signs in, and authorizes the read permissions. Zoom account-admin approval may be needed.
- Return to Sim, confirm the account appears, and search a known meeting. Read the result and follow its source link.
A workflow Zoom connection does not authorize Search. Its dedicated app registration prevents Search reauthorization from replacing or narrowing a workflow app's grant.
Search and read meetings
Open Search → Assistant and ask Sim: “Search Zoom for deployment rollback decisions last week and cite the transcript.” Use short plain keywords such as deployment rollback. Zoom matches topics, agendas, and available meeting content.
Results identify past occurrences by UUID rather than recurring meeting number. Use native kind meeting when sending multiple queries to one account. startDate and endDate use actual start time, with an exclusive end. Continue nextCursor with the same account, query, and filters; rerun an expired continuation. Zoom's Meetings API documents a 15-minute page-token lifetime; restart Search if the MCP continuation expires.
Each page verifies at most ten candidates. Sorting that page does not establish the globally newest or oldest match. Boolean/field operators, project selection, ownership, and modification-date filters are unsupported.
Reads return available timestamped transcripts, personal notes, and separately labeled AI summaries. Notes and summaries are not verbatim speech. Sim does not download recordings or transcribe audio. Recording, transcription, AI Companion settings, licenses, processing state, and sharing permissions determine which artifacts exist.
Missing artifacts do not prove a discussion never happened. Oversized or malformed reads fail explicitly; provider failures do not appear as complete searches with no matches.
Self-hosted operator setup
Zoom Search is disabled by default. Enable it with ZOOM_SEARCH=true for otherwise eligible organization scopes on a self-hosted deployment. Organization-targeted deployments can use the zoom-search AppConfig feature flag instead. Availability does not grant membership or provider access. Disabling the rollout blocks later Search setup and retrieval while retaining saved grants and conversations; members can still disconnect.
Configure a separate General, User-managed Search app with ZOOM_MCP_CLIENT_ID and ZOOM_MCP_CLIENT_SECRET. Enable meeting:read:search and meeting:read:assets. Register this exact callback in both the redirect field and OAuth allow list:
An internal app supports only its Zoom account. Other accounts require approved external distribution, including unlisted production apps; beta sharing has a separate approval process. Follow Zoom's MCP app setup, production distribution, and beta sharing guidance.
The connection uses PKCE and client_secret_basic. Sim requests only those two read scopes and permits search_meetings and get_meeting_assets, even if discovery includes writes. Its fixed endpoint is https://mcp.zoom.us/mcp/meeting/streamable.
Disconnect and troubleshoot
In Integrations, open Zoom's … menu, select Disconnect for the account, and confirm. This stops use in the organization. Workflows using that same connection lose access; other members' connections are unaffected.
To remove Zoom authorization too, open Zoom App Marketplace → My Library, find the Search app, and select More → Remove. Account admins may control removal. Disconnecting does not delete meetings/recordings or existing Sim conversations. Zoom removal instructions.
Related docs
- Zoom Meetings MCP server
- Sim Privacy Policy — data handling and deletion requests
- Contact support