fathom

What This Skill Does

The Fathom skill provides OpenClaw with seamless access to your Fathom AI meeting ecosystem. By integrating with the Fathom external API, this skill allows you to programmatically fetch meeting recordings, full-text transcripts, AI-generated summaries, and organized action items. It bridges the gap between your calendar and your meeting notes, enabling automated workflows for tracking deliverables, maintaining meeting accountability, and syncing meeting insights directly into your personal or professional databases.

Installation

To begin, ensure you have the OpenClaw environment configured. First, install the skill using the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/lauren-hayes-ai/fathom-meetings. Once installed, you must authenticate the agent by creating a secrets file at ~/.openclaw/secrets/fathom.env. Add your FATHOM_API_KEY and FATHOM_WEBHOOK_SECRET to this file. You can retrieve these credentials by navigating to your Fathom account settings under Integrations > API. Once saved, ensure the agent has permission to read from this file path to enable secure API calls.

Use Cases

This skill is designed for high-velocity environments where meeting context is critical. Use it to automatically aggregate action items from a full week of calls, build a dashboard of external partner interactions, or archive meeting transcripts into local markdown files for long-term knowledge management. It is also ideal for creating 'sync' workflows that cross-reference calendar events with recording metadata to ensure no meeting goes undocumented. Furthermore, developers can use this skill as a template to build robust meeting analytics, such as identifying frequently discussed topics or tracking specific external domains present in client calls.

Example Prompts

1. "Look at my Fathom meetings from yesterday and extract all action items assigned to me, then format them into a markdown checklist."
2. "Did I have any meetings with external partners last week? Please provide a summary of the discussions for those specific calls."
3. "Sync my recent Fathom meeting transcripts into my local Obsidian vault under the 'Meeting Notes' folder."

Tips & Limitations

When filtering by date, ensure you use ISO 8601 formatting for the created_after and created_before parameters to avoid parsing errors. Note that the Fathom API utilizes a pagination system via a next_cursor; if you are fetching a large volume of historical data, ensure your logic iteratively requests the next cursor until it returns null. Be mindful that API rate limits apply based on your Fathom subscription tier. For complex matching logic—such as pairing Fathom recordings to calendar events—it is best to perform a windowed time-overlap check, as event titles in calendars may occasionally differ from the exact meeting title in Fathom.