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? Dead. 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 YAML. The job runs, the binary responds, but the service it queries lives on an IP Routines doesn't see and never will, by construction. The forty-seven other jobs on my server are in the same situation. Not one fits. And it's not a problem to fix (it's mechanical). Since Routines dropped, I've mostly seen demos. Everyone shows the three jobs that work. Nobody names the boundary. What follows is how to wire this into production infra, including the parts where Routines stops and you take over. TLDR.…