Anthropic just dropped managed agents and routines. Everyone's asking "does this replace n8n?" Short answer: no. Here's why. Routines are time-based only. No webhooks. No event triggers. Research preview. The Register called them "mildly clever cron jobs." Managed agents? Powerful — but single-task. No multi-tenant awareness. No version tracking across clients. No rollback. So what actually happens in a real agency stack: → n8n for event-driven workflows → Claude routines for scheduled reasoning → Make for the stuff already wired up → Custom scripts for edge cases → GHL sub-accounts held together with prayer → Now managed agents on top of all of it 6 dashboards. Zero shared view of what's actually running. Every new tool solves one problem and adds another integration to maintain. The issue was never which tool — it's that nobody's tracking what's running across all of them. DM me if you're hitting the scaling wall — I'll help you map the fix.

I'm Rob from NJ, US. Exploring the possibilities of building AI automations. Considering the VS Code->Claude Code->n8n Workflows method. Looking forward to learning from you all 😊