Claude Routines Aren't a Reasoning Cron. They're a Repo-Centric Subset of One.
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A week after Anthropic shipped Routines, three of my cron jobs are running in production. Took thirty minutes. The PR auto-review that was polling GitHub every half hour? Dead. The weekly doc drift script that parsed commits in crusty bash? The SEO data refresh I kept putting off for six months (no time, you know how it is)? Live in five. Three jobs, thirty minutes, no friction. Convinced. That evening, I went for the fourth. And then, nothing. Not an error, not a quota, not a malformed