contacts

name	contacts
description	Look up employee information via Lark - find colleagues by ID, list department members, search users by name, search departments. Use when user asks about a person, colleague, job title, department, or org structure.

Contacts Lookup Skill

Look up employee information via the lark CLI.

Running Commands

Ensure lark is in your PATH, or use the full path to the binary. Set the config directory if not using the default:

lark contact <command>
# Or with explicit config:
LARK_CONFIG_DIR=/path/to/.lark lark contact <command>

Commands Reference

Get User by ID

# Look up by open_id (default)
lark contact get ou_xxxx

# Look up by user_id
lark contact get 12345 --id-type user_id

Output:

{
  "user_id": "ou_xxx",
  "open_id": "ou_xxx",
  "name": "Jane Doe",
  "en_name": "Jane Doe",
  "email": "[e-mail]",
  "job_title": "Data Analyst",
  "department": "Business Intelligence"
}

List Users in Department

# List users in root department
lark contact list-dept

# List users in specific department
lark contact list-dept od_xxxx

Output:

{
  "contacts": [
    {
      "user_id": "ou_xxx",
      "name": "Alice",
      "job_title": "Engineer",
      "department": "Engineering"
    }
  ],
  "count": 1
}

Search Users by Name

lark contact search "Jane"
lark contact search "John Smith"

Output:

{
  "contacts": [
    {
      "user_id": "ou_xxx",
      "open_id": "ou_xxx",
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "department": "Engineering"
    }
  ],
  "count": 1
}

Search Departments

lark contact search-dept "Engineering"

Output:

{
  "departments": [
    {
      "department_id": "od_xxx",
      "name": "Engineering",
      "member_count": 42
    }
  ],
  "count": 1
}

Integration with Calendar

When showing calendar events with attendees, you can enrich attendee info:

1. Get attendee open_id from calendar event
2. Use contact get <open_id> to fetch job title and department
3. Present enriched attendee info to user

Example workflow:

# Get event with attendees
lark cal show <event_id>
# Returns attendees with open_id

# Look up each attendee
lark contact get ou_attendee_id
# Returns name, job_title, department

Output Format

All commands output JSON. Format appropriately when presenting to user.

Error Handling

Errors return JSON:

{
  "error": true,
  "code": "ERROR_CODE",
  "message": "Description"
}

Common error codes:

• AUTH_ERROR - Need to run lark auth login
• SCOPE_ERROR - Missing contacts permissions. Run lark auth login --add --scopes contacts
• NOT_FOUND - User or department not found
• API_ERROR - Lark API issue

Required Permissions

This skill requires the contacts scope group. If you see a SCOPE_ERROR, the user needs to add contacts permissions:

lark auth login --add --scopes contacts

To check current permissions:

lark auth status

Notes

• The search and search-dept commands require user authentication (OAuth via lark auth login)
• The get and list-dept commands use tenant token (no login required)
• Department IDs typically start with od_
• User open_ids typically start with ou_