Knowledge Base Maintenance with Codex: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for knowledge base maintenance in cross-industry operations using Codex: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Support and documentation teams
The problem
Support and documentation teams need knowledge base maintenance to run repeatedly against docs, tickets, changelogs, and stale article lists. In cross-industry 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 docs, tickets, changelogs, and stale article lists 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 knowledge base maintenance, 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 knowledge base maintenance using Codex.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "knowledge_base_maintenance".
Run this on Argo