The Gap
In Part 1, I built a routine board — a system that runs Claude on a schedule, defined as Markdown files, backed by a Rust engine with cron scheduling, crash recovery, and a self-contained dashboard. It works well for what it does.
But real work isn't a cron job.
Consider this: you need to audit all the places a deprecated API is referenced across a large codebase. That means searching multiple code areas, cross-referencing findings, identifying which references are active vs. dead code, and producing a prioritized cleanup plan. No single Claude session handles this well. The context is too broad, the work needs decomposition, and some pieces depend on others.
That’s the difference between “task execution” and “work management.” Execution is running a prompt. Work management is deciding what to run, in what order, with what context, and what to do when something fails
