Retail: Product Catalog Cleanup with Claude Code: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for product catalog cleanup in retail operations using Claude Code: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Retail and marketplace catalog teams
The problem
Retail and marketplace catalog teams need product catalog cleanup to run repeatedly against product feeds, images, descriptions, taxonomy rules, and exception lists. In retail 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 product feeds, images, descriptions, taxonomy rules, and exception lists 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 product catalog cleanup, 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 product catalog cleanup using Claude Code.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "retail_product_catalog_cleanup".
Run this on Argo