Workflow Cost Audit with Codex: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for workflow cost audit in cross-industry operations using Codex: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Founders and infra owners
The problem
Founders and infra owners need workflow cost audit to run repeatedly against run logs, token usage, sandbox minutes, and artifact storage records. 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 run logs, token usage, sandbox minutes, and artifact storage records 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 workflow cost 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 workflow cost audit using Codex.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "workflow_cost_audit".
Run this on Argo