Workflow Versioning with Codex: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for workflow versioning in cross-industry operations using Codex: api runtime pattern, 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
Package the workflow versioning instructions as a skill, send skill folders, changelogs, runs, and rollback 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 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.
Run request
POST /api/skills/<skill_id>/run
provider=codex
workflow=workflow-versioning
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
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