First-party app
Zoho Cliq

Zoho Cliq

Post messages, manage channels, teams, reminders and files in Zoho Cliq, across every Zoho data centre.

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About

Zoho Cliq ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 32 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.zoho-cliq
Version
0.1.0
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Communication · Productivity

Overview

Zoho Cliq is Zoho’s team chat. This app puts it into a workflow: post messages to channels, group chats, bots and individual users (with replies and bot identities), edit and delete messages, read chat history, create and manage channels and their members, look up users and teams, share files, and create and complete reminders.

Zoho hosts every organization in one of nine regional data centres, each with its own Cliq API host and its own OAuth accounts host, so each region gets its own connection method rather than one that could silently send an EU organization’s requests through the US region. Canada is the one region where BOTH hosts break the naming pattern (cliq.zohocloud.ca, accounts.zohocloud.ca), and this app points at the real hosts.

Organization-level APIs only: Cliq network (external collaboration) endpoints, events/calendars, user and role administration, databases, custom domain/email, extensions and the CSV maintenance exports are deliberately left out.

Build with Zoho Cliq

Three routes to the same 32 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Zoho Cliq's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Create Channel

channel-create

Create a channel and optionally add its first members.

Delete Channel

channel-delete

Permanently delete a channel.

Get Channel

channel-get

Get one channel's details, including its unique name and chat id.

Join Channel

channel-join

Join a channel as the user who authorized the connection.

Leave Channel

channel-leave

Leave a channel as the user who authorized the connection.

List Channels

channel-list

List channels in the organization, filtered by name, status, level or membership.

Add Channel Members

channel-member-add

Add users to a channel by user id or email address (max 100 per call).

List Channel Members

channel-member-list

List the members of a channel with their roles.

Remove Channel Members

channel-member-remove

Remove users from a channel by user id or email address (max 100 per call).

Update Channel

channel-update

Rename a channel, change its description or its configuration settings.

List Chats

chat-list

List direct, group and bot chats (not channels — use List Channels). Page backwards with 'Modified before'.

List Chat Members

chat-member-list

List the members of a chat.

Share File in Channel

file-share-channel

Upload a file into a channel by channel id or unique name, optionally as a bot.

Share File in Chat

file-share-chat

Upload a file into a chat by chat id.

Share File with User

file-share-user

Send a file to a user as a direct message, by email address or Zoho user id.

Delete Message

message-delete

Delete a message from a chat or channel.

Edit Message

message-edit

Edit the text of a message in a chat or channel.

Get Message

message-get

Get one message from a chat or channel.

List Messages

message-list

List messages in a chat or channel (use the channel's chat id).

Post Message via Bot

message-post-bot

Send a message to a bot's subscribers (or to chosen subscribers) as that bot.

Post Message to Channel

message-post-channel

Post a message to a channel by channel id or unique name, optionally as a bot or as a reply.

Post Message to Chat

message-post-chat

Post a message to a chat (group chat, direct chat or thread) by chat id.

Send Direct Message

message-post-user

Send a direct message to a user by email address or Zoho user id (zuid).

Complete Reminder

reminder-complete

Mark one of your own reminders as complete.

Create Reminder

reminder-create

Create a reminder for yourself, for up to 4 other users, for a chat/channel, or on a message.

Delete Reminder

reminder-delete

Delete a reminder.

List Reminders

reminder-list

List reminders in a category (mine, mine-completed, others, others-completed).

Get Team

team-get

Get one team's details.

List Teams

team-list

List the teams in the organization.

Get User

user-get

Get one user's full profile by user id or email address.

List Users

user-list

List the users in the Zoho Cliq organization, optionally searched by name or email.

List a User's Teams

user-team-list

List the teams a user belongs to.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Zoho Cliq's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "zoho-cliq-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "channel-create",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.zoho-cliq",
        "action": "channel-create",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "name": "<name>",
        "level": "<level>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Create Channel

    perform
    channel-create
  • Get Channel

    read
    channel-get
  • Join Channel

    perform
    channel-join
  • List Channels

    read
    channel-list
  • Add Channel Members

    perform
    channel-member-add

+27 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Zoho Cliq, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Zoho Cliq. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "channel-create",
  payload: {
    name: "<value>",
    level: "<value>",
    // description: "<value>",
    // inviteOnly: "<value>",
    // teamIds: "<value>",
    // userIds: "<value>",
    // emailIds: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action channel-create --payload '{"name":"<value>","level":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Zoho Cliq — without giving it Zoho Cliq's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.zoho-cliq#channel-create",
    "input": {
      "name": "<name>",
      "level": "<level>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Zoho Cliq connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Zoho Cliq's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Zoho Cliq itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Zoho Cliq declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Zoho Cliq platform status

Reads the "Zoho Cliq" component off Zoho's StatusIQ RSS feed (us.zohostatus.com/rss). Unauthenticated and unsigned.

quota

Rate-limit headroom