RFP Response Drafting with Codex: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for RFP response drafting in cross-industry operations using Codex: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Sales engineering teams
The problem
Sales engineering teams need RFP response drafting to run repeatedly against RFP docs, product docs, security answers, and prior responses. 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 RFP response drafting instructions as a skill, send RFP docs, product docs, security answers, and prior responses 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 RFP response drafting, 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=rfp-response-drafting
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
Run this on Argo