Competitive Research Brief with Codex: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for competitive research brief in cross-industry operations using Codex: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Strategy and product marketing teams
The problem
Strategy and product marketing teams need competitive research brief to run repeatedly against public pages, notes, pricing screenshots, and source links. 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 competitive research brief instructions as a skill, send public pages, notes, pricing screenshots, and source links 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 competitive research brief, 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=competitive-research-brief
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
Run this on Argo