The Boundary in Practice
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The Boundary in Practice
Here’s a real example from my setup.
n8n handles: The contact form pipeline. A form submission arrives, n8n validates and stores it, fires a Telegram notification. I see the notification on my phone. This runs without me being at a computer.
Claude Code handles: My response. When I sit down to reply to an enquiry, I might use Claude Code to draft something. I give it the submission context, the kind of person asking, what I think the right response is. It drafts. I edit. I send.
The boundary is attention. n8n runs when I’m not watching. Claude Code runs when I am.
Another example: the site health monitor.
n8n handles: Running the checks every six hours and sending the alert. No human involvement until something breaks.
Claude Code handles: Diagnosing the cause when an alert fires. If a site goes down unexpectedly, I might open Claude Code, share the server logs or error output, and work through what happened. That’s an investigation, not a defined sequence. n8n can’t do it. Claude Code can.