Workflow Cost Audit with Claude Code: Artifact Delivery
A production playbook for workflow cost audit in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: artifact delivery, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Founders and infra owners
The problem
Founders and infra owners need workflow cost audit to run repeatedly against run logs, token usage, sandbox minutes, and artifact storage records. In cross-industry operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Require Claude Code to write customer-visible files under /skill/output/artifacts, validate filenames and sizes, then return signed artifact metadata in argo.result.v1.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
Artifact policy constrains file output, but customers receive files that are durable, typed, and safe to download. For workflow cost audit, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Artifact manifest
artifacts:
- workflow-cost-audit-summary.md
- workflow-cost-audit-evidence.csv
- workflow-cost-audit-review.json
signed_urls: true
retention: org_policy
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