Finance: Accounts Payable Close Review with Codex: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for accounts payable close review in finance operations using Codex: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Finance operations teams closing AP
The problem
Finance operations teams closing AP need accounts payable close review to run repeatedly against invoices, approvals, purchase orders, payment runs, and exception reports. In finance 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 invoices, approvals, purchase orders, payment runs, and exception reports per run, and let Argo turn the folder into a repeatable Codex 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 accounts payable close review, 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 accounts payable close review using Codex.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "finance_ap_close".
Run this on Argo