Customer Artifact Generation with Codex: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for customer artifact generation in cross-industry operations using Codex: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Product teams delivering reports or spreadsheets
The problem
Product teams delivering reports or spreadsheets need customer artifact generation to run repeatedly against source data, templates, and delivery 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
Package the customer artifact generation instructions as a skill, send source data, templates, and delivery requirements as run-scoped inputs, execute with Codex, poll terminal status, and consume argo.result.v1 instead of parsing a transcript.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
The API boundary forces the workflow to define inputs, terminal states, and result shape before customers depend on it. For customer artifact generation, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Run request
POST /api/skills/<skill_id>/run
provider=codex
workflow=artifact-generation
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
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