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Skill batches

Run a Skill once per row of a spreadsheet, approve the ready rows together, and read the results workbook.

Run a Skill over a spreadsheet

Attach a spreadsheet (.xlsx or .xlsm) or a CSV to a mission and ask Skyflo to run a Skill on it. Each row is one run. You can also hand it a set of documents, or a folder of them, and each document becomes one row. Blank rows are skipped.

The first row runs in front of you, so you can watch it work. When it settles, the remaining rows run in background browser tabs, three at once by default. If Skyflo runs fewer at once, the batch says why.

Follow the batch

The batch ledger in the mission lists every row with its status: Queued, Running, Waiting, Done, Needs you, Failed, Skipped or Cancelled.

One approval for the ready rows. When the mission is not in Full access and the Skill asks before its final step, each row stops just before that step and waits. The ledger then offers one approval for every checked row, labelled with the Skill's own final step (for example Submit application), with Decline beside it. The same approval appears in Needs you on Home.

Rows that need you. A row that cannot finish without you, because of missing data or a form that does not match, goes to Needs you with the reason. Rows with the same cause are grouped, so one Answer covers all of them.

Pause after failures. If three rows in a row fail, the batch pauses itself. Fix the cause, then choose Resume in the ledger.

The results workbook

When the batch finishes, Skyflo saves a results file in the mission's area folder, or the General folder for work outside an area, and attaches it to the mission. If it cannot write the file, ask for it in the mission. It is named after your sheet with "(Skyflo results)" added. Your original file is never changed. An .xlsx source gives an .xlsx; a CSV or .xlsm source gives a .csv.

The results keep your columns and add four:

ColumnWhat it holds
StatusHow the row ended.
ReferenceThe confirmation or reference the run captured.
Fields checkedHow many of the row's fields were checked against your data, such as 18 of 18.
NoteWhy a row needs you, failed or was skipped.

An .xlsx with more than two rows ends with a Batch summary row: the share of rows done with no help, the share of fields checked, minutes per row, and how many rows are in Needs you. Choose Save results file again in the ledger to rewrite it.

Run the same sheet again

Skyflo recognises each row by its values. When you run the same Skill on the sheet again, rows already done are marked Skipped with "Already done in an earlier batch", and only the rest run.

When a Skill earns more

Every clean, checked run counts. After three in a row, Skyflo offers to let the Skill finish on its own, and a later mismatch takes that back. See Skills for how that authority works.

Written for Skyflo Desktop 1.8.0. Last reviewed November 9, 2026.

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