Scheduled Skills let Valendata do the work while you sleep. Instead of triggering a run manually every time you need fresh data, you attach a schedule to a published Skill and Valendata executes it on your chosen cadence. Results appear in the Runs tab the moment each run completes, ready to query or forward to a downstream system.
Why schedule a Skill
Scheduling is the right tool whenever you need:
- Recurring data pulls — price monitoring, inventory checks, SERP tracking
- Change detection — watch a page for updates and alert downstream systems when something new appears
- Pipeline feeds — push fresh structured data into a database or HTTP endpoint on a fixed cadence
- Compliance snapshots — capture a page state at a known timestamp for audit or archiving purposes
Prerequisites
Before setting up a schedule, make sure you have:
- A published Skill in your Workspace
- Sufficient credit balance to cover the expected number of runs
- (Optional) A Chrome Profile attached to the Skill if the target site requires authentication
If the Skill needs to log into a site, attach a Chrome Profile during schedule setup. The profile stores your browser session in the cloud so every scheduled run starts already authenticated — even if your own computer is off.
Setting up a schedule
Open the Schedules page
In the main sidebar, click Schedules. This page lists all Skills that have an active schedule. Click New Schedule to create one.
Select a Skill
Choose the Skill you want to schedule from the dropdown. Only Skills without an existing schedule are listed.
Choose your run frequency
Select one of the built-in presets or choose Custom for more control:Selecting Custom lets you set a specific daily time, an interval in minutes, a specific weekday, or a raw cron expression. Attach a Chrome Profile (optional)
If the Skill targets a site that requires a logged-in session, select a Chrome Profile from the dropdown. If you have not created one yet, set one up first from the Profiles page.
Create the schedule
Click Create Schedule. The schedule is live immediately — no further action required. The Schedules page will show the Skill with its next scheduled run time.
Monitoring scheduled runs
Every execution appears in the Runs tab on the Skill detail page. Each entry shows the status, duration, credits used, and the full structured output downloadable as JSON or CSV.
Pausing or removing a schedule
To temporarily pause a schedule without losing its configuration, open the Schedules page and toggle the Active switch off on the Skill’s schedule row. Toggle it back on to resume — runs that occurred while paused are not backfilled.
To remove a schedule entirely, click the delete icon on the schedule row. Your Skill remains published and callable via API. You can create a new schedule for it at any time.
If your credit balance reaches zero, scheduled runs will fail at execution time. Top up your balance before the next scheduled run to avoid missed executions.
Credit cost estimation
The cost of a scheduled run covers AI tokens consumed and browser session time. Check the Runs tab on the Skill for past run costs before setting an aggressive schedule — start with a daily cadence, verify the credit spend, then increase frequency if the budget allows.