Finance: Accounts Payable Close Review with Claude Code: Result JSON Schema

A production playbook for accounts payable close review in finance operations using Claude Code: result json schema, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.

Audience: Finance operations teams closing AP

The problem

Finance operations teams closing AP need accounts payable close review to run repeatedly against invoices, approvals, purchase orders, payment runs, and exception reports. In finance 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 accounts payable close review 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 accounts payable close review, 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": "accounts payable close review completed",
  "body": { "type": "finance_ap_close", "data": {}, "exceptions": [] },
  "artifacts": []
}

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