Localization Review with Codex: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for localization review in cross-industry operations using Codex: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Localization and product teams
The problem
Localization and product teams need localization review to run repeatedly against strings, screenshots, glossaries, and market rules. 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 localization review instructions as a skill, send strings, screenshots, glossaries, and market rules 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 localization review, 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=localization-review
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
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