Agent CLI To API Migration with Claude Code: Result JSON Schema

A production playbook for agent CLI to API migration in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: result json schema, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.

Audience: Developer tools teams productizing a local CLI

The problem

Developer tools teams productizing a local CLI need agent CLI to API migration to run repeatedly against CLI commands, workspace files, auth, and output expectations. In cross-industry operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.

Implementation path

Define the outer result contract once, let the agent CLI to API migration skill own body.data, and reject terminal output that does not match the expected schema.

Tradeoffs and failure modes

Schema enforcement adds upfront design work, but removes prompt parsing from the product surface. For agent CLI to API migration, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.

Result shape

{
  "schema_version": "argo.result.v1",
  "summary": "agent CLI to API migration completed",
  "body": { "type": "agent_cli_to_api", "data": {}, "exceptions": [] },
  "artifacts": []
}

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