Workflow Versioning with Claude Code: Result JSON Schema
A production playbook for workflow versioning in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: result json schema, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Platform teams operating many skills
The problem
Platform teams operating many skills need workflow versioning to run repeatedly against skill folders, changelogs, runs, and rollback requirements. 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 workflow versioning 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 workflow versioning, 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": "workflow versioning completed",
"body": { "type": "workflow_versioning", "data": {}, "exceptions": [] },
"artifacts": []
}
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