Scheduled Tasks + Claude Skills + Vercel AI Gateway: the always-on agent runtime stack that replaces bespoke infra

Combining OpenAI Scheduled Tasks (recurring model runs against a stored prompt), Anthropic Claude Skills (procedural workflows on demand via tool_search), and Vercel AI Gateway (multi-provider routing with fallback, retry, spend limits, per-request cost attribution) gives creators an always-on agent runtime without standing up dedicated infrastructure. The combo replaces the bespoke 'cron + lambda + multi-provider router + observability' pattern that teams previously had to build themselves. Each product solves a different slice of the same problem: Scheduled Tasks handles 'when', Skills handles 'how', AI Gateway handles 'where'.