Workflow Versioning with Codex: SKILL.md Template
A production playbook for workflow versioning in cross-industry operations using Codex: skill.md template, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Platform teams operating many skills
The problem
Platform teams operating many skills need workflow versioning to run repeatedly against skill folders, changelogs, runs, and rollback requirements. 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 skill folders, changelogs, runs, and rollback requirements 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 versioning, 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 versioning using Codex.
Read only /skill/.argo/inputs.
Write artifacts to /skill/output/artifacts.
Return argo.result.v1 with body.type = "workflow_versioning".
Run this on Argo