Skills Reference
Schedule
What it does
Sets up recurring and one-shot scheduled actions using cron syntax, RRULE patterns, or simple timestamps. Your assistant can do things on a schedule without you asking, including recurring monitoring of a page, dashboard, or status check.
Setup required
None. Works immediately.
Permissions
- No special permissions needed
Common prompts
| You say... | What happens |
|---|---|
| “Remind me to check my email every morning at 9am” | Creates a recurring schedule |
| “Set a reminder for March 15th at 2pm” | One-time scheduled notification |
| “Every Friday at 5pm, summarize my week” | Recurring task with execution |
| “Watch this status page and alert me if a branch is late” | Creates a recurring schedule that checks the page and notifies on exceptions |
| “Show me my active schedules” | Lists all scheduled items |
| “Cancel the morning email reminder” | Deletes a schedule |
Configuration
- Supports cron syntax for recurring schedules
- RRULE (RFC 5545) for complex recurrence patterns
- ISO 8601 timestamps for one-time events
- Four modes: “execute” (run a task), “notify” (send a notification), “script” (run a shell command), or “workflow” (run a saved workflow)
- Timezone-aware
- Notify mode can prefer the Vellum app used to create the schedule on macOS, Windows, or iOS when no source channel is available
- Each schedule is pinned to a model profile when it is created, so changing your default model later does not change what your existing schedules cost
Tips & gotchas
- Recurring monitoring. Ask the assistant to watch a page or dashboard. It creates a schedule you can pause and edit, not a script to run yourself.
- Persistent across conversations. Schedules persist across conversations — set it once and it runs until you cancel it.
- Simple reminders. For simple reminders, just say “remind me.”
- Complex patterns. For complex patterns (“every other Tuesday”), the RRULE support handles it.
- Same permission rules. Scheduled actions run with the same permission rules as interactive actions — your assistant won't do anything it couldn't do in a normal conversation.
- Results reach you. A schedule that produces output — a digest, a report, a check whose answer is “nothing changed” — delivers it the way you asked: a notification, an email, a Slack post. If a run finishes with output and delivered it nowhere, the assistant sends you its final reply as a notification, so a scheduled run never finishes silently in a conversation you don't have open.
- In-app links in Vellum chat. In Vellum chat, schedule and conversation names the assistant mentions are links to their details. Those links work in the Vellum app only, not in Slack, Telegram, Discord, email, or notifications.