Artifact Delivery with Codex: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for artifact delivery in cross-industry operations using Codex: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Teams whose agents create files customers download
The problem
Teams whose agents create files customers download need artifact delivery to run repeatedly against reports, exports, patches, PDFs, and manifests. 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 reports, exports, patches, PDFs, and manifests 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 artifact delivery, 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 artifact delivery using Codex.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "artifact_delivery".
Run this on Argo