Gorgos and n8n: which layer does what
The question n8n or Gorgos is the wrong one. The right one is: who executes the step, and who decides whether it may be executed.
What does n8n do?
It connects systems and runs a flow: fetch, transform, send. It has approval nodes that can hold a flow for a human decision. Choose the tool against the actual workflow and available integrations.
Approval inside a flow works within that flow. Whoever designed it decides where the gate stands.
What should you check across several flows?
An approval step in one flow does not itself establish that the same rule covers the others. Check which action paths are actually connected to it.
With one flow that does not matter. With thirty, built by different people over a year, a rule written separately into each stops being a rule.
What does it look like together?
In a proposed setup, a connected flow asks the gate before performing an action. The gate applies the selected policy. The integration, refusal and decision record must be verified on that specific path.
The practical aim is to maintain the rule in one place. A new flow still requires connection and permission-boundary checks.
n8n does the work. The policy decides what may be done alone. Trading one for the other makes no sense.
When do you not need Gorgos?
When your automations are internal and reversible, and everything that leaves the company passes one person anyway. The gate already exists then, and it has that person's name.
Gorgos starts to earn its place when that person can no longer sit at every decision, and the list of things happening on their own no longer fits in one head.