Billing Reconciliation with Claude Code: Result JSON Schema

A production playbook for billing reconciliation in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: result json schema, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.

Audience: Billing operations teams

The problem

Billing operations teams need billing reconciliation to run repeatedly against Stripe exports, internal usage, invoices, and contracts. 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 billing reconciliation 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 billing reconciliation, 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": "billing reconciliation completed",
  "body": { "type": "billing_reconciliation", "data": {}, "exceptions": [] },
  "artifacts": []
}

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