GPT WORLD / INDEPENDENT CODEX FIELD MANUAL Source review · 2026-07-31

Retrospective edition / OPERATIONS

Move tolerant workloads to batch processing

Batch work needs stable custom identifiers, immutable input manifests, per-item status, result reconciliation, and bounded replay.

01 / DECIDE

Architecture decision

Use it for offline evaluation, classification, enrichment, or large queues that do not require interactive latency.

Batch work needs stable custom identifiers, immutable input manifests, per-item status, result reconciliation, and bounded replay. Map input, output, state, and side effects as one observable path before deciding which layer owns move tolerant workloads to batch processing.

02 / BUILD

Three-step implementation

  1. 01

    Frame the contract

    Write down the caller, data classification, success condition, timeout, cancellation, and ownership. Use it for offline evaluation, classification, enrichment, or large queues that do not require interactive latency.

  2. 02

    Build one narrow path

    Implement one end-to-end path with request correlation, typed state, and reversible failure handling. Batch work needs stable custom identifiers, immutable input manifests, per-item status, result reconciliation, and bounded replay.

  3. 03

    Prove the outcome

    Turn acceptance into a repeatable fixture, contract test, or browser test. Reconciliation proves every input is succeeded, failed, cancelled, or explicitly pending with no silent loss.

03 / BOUND

Production boundary

Do not submit unbounded sensitive datasets; define retention, encryption, cancellation, and partial-result policy first.

04 / PROVE

Acceptance evidence

Reconciliation proves every input is succeeded, failed, cancelled, or explicitly pending with no silent loss.

SOURCE / HTTP

Reproducible source probe

curl -fsSI 'https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/batch' | sed -n '1,5p'

PRIMARY / OFFICIAL

Official OpenAI sources

Sources checked · 2026-08-10

  1. 01Batch API