Construction: Change Order Audit with Claude Code: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for change order audit in construction operations using Claude Code: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Construction finance and project controls teams
The problem
Construction finance and project controls teams need change order audit to run repeatedly against change orders, contracts, invoices, schedules, and field reports. In construction operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Put the operating procedure in SKILL.md, keep examples beside the skill, attach change orders, contracts, invoices, schedules, and field reports per run, and let Argo turn the folder into a repeatable Claude Code execution.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
A skill folder is less flexible than an open chat, but it gives the product a versioned workflow that can be tested and rolled back. For change order audit, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
SKILL.md starter
# SKILL.md
You run change order audit using Claude Code.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "construction_change_order_audit".
Run this on Argo