January 15, 2021 - Automate Your Network

January 15, 2021January 16, 2021

Designing the Next-Gen Parliament Precinct Network

I really enjoyed sitting down with Zig to discuss my journey !

Parliament Precinct Network – A True Enterprise Network Design Use Case (zigbits.tech)

# The Day the Network Became Self-Aware: Building a Multi-Human, Multi-NetClaw BGP Agent Mesh March 1, 2026
**March 1, 2026** *By John Capobianco on his 48th birthday — with NetClaw 🦞* — ## Prologue: A Different Kind of Sunday Morning Most engineers spend Sunday morning with coffee and maybe a lab they’ve been meaning to spin up for weeks. On March 1, 2026, John Capobianco and Sean Mahoney spent theirs doing something […]
John Capobianco
6 days of netclaw – by netclaw February 27, 2026
# Six Days, 82 Skills, and a Community PR: How NetClaw Went from Idea to 160 Stars Six days ago I pushed the first commit of [NetClaw](https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw) — an open-source, CCIE-level AI network engineering agent built on [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw). The idea was simple: give Claude the same mental models a senior network engineer carries, then connect […]
John Capobianco
8 hours of netclaw – by netclaw February 20, 2026
We Gave a Slack Channel Full of Engineers an AI Network Agent. Here’s What Happened. A live red-team session, a VASI BGP lab, and 30+ social engineering attempts — all in one Friday afternoon. ─── The Setup The premise was simple: drop an AI agent with real network access into a Slack channel full of […]
John Capobianco
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Part 2: The Multi-Protocol Agent January 18, 2026
## Or: How I Taught an AI Agent to Speak Every Language in the Network *Building on [Part 1: Teaching an AI to Speak OSPF](https://www.automateyournetwork.ca/uncategorized/i-taught-an-ai-agent-to-speak-ospf-its-now-my-routers-neighbour/)* — ## The Question That Started It All (Again) Remember when we asked: “What if networks didn’t need to be configured—what if they could just… talk?” We proved that with […]
John Capobianco
I Taught an AI Agent to Speak OSPF: It’s Now My Router’s Neighbour January 16, 2026
Wont You Be My Neighbour? ## The Network as a Conversation, Not a Configuration For decades, we’ve treated networks as things to be **configured**. We push commands, pull outputs, parse CLI text, and hope our automation scripts survive the next OS upgrade. **What if we’ve been thinking about this wrong?** What if networks aren’t meant […]
John Capobianco
Vibe Coding: Building a CCIE-Level Enterprise Network with AI, GAIT, and pyATS January 11, 2026
Vibe Coding: Building a CCIE-Level Enterprise Network with AI, GAIT, and pyATS The Power of AI-Driven Network Configuration with Version Control Date: January 11, 2026 Author: Claude Code (Anthropic) + Ralph Wiggum Loop Tools: Claude Code CLI, GAIT (version control for AI reasoning), pyATS MCP, Ralph Loop Network: 4 devices (2 routers, 2 switches) Configuration […]
John Capobianco
Building the Future of Network Automation: RALPH, GAIT, and pyATS in Harmony January 11, 2026
Building the Future of Network Automation: RALPH, GAIT, and pyATS in Harmony Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on an incredible journey pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI-assisted network automation. What started as an experiment has evolved into a sophisticated workflow that’s transforming how I approach network engineering and automation. The Power […]
John Capobianco
VibeOps Forum December 29, 2025
I was getting pretty tired and aggravated at all of the networking forums and discords and slack channels for being *so* anti-AI; can’t share ideas; can’t discuss AI / MCP / Agents; can’t bring Vibe Coding or VibeOps topics out in the open without being dogpiled by curmugeons and Luddite’s and ancient thinking. It was […]
John Capobianco
Now available: Cisco pyATS: Network Test and Automation Solution June 27, 2024
Cisco Press: Cisco pyATS Network Test and Automation Solution: Data-driven and reusable testing for modern networks | Cisco Press Amazon Cisco pyATS ― Network Test and Automation Solution: Data-driven and reusable testing for modern networks (Networking Technology): 9780138031671: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com The post Now available: Cisco pyATS: Network Test and Automation Solution appeared […]
John Capobianco
Local RAFT: Fine-tuning Llama3 with domain-specific knowledge locally and privately May 11, 2024
An approach to fine-tuning using open source tools Recap of Part 1 In the first part of this series (Augmenting Network Engineering with RAFT – Automate Your Network ), we dove into the innovative world of Retrieval Augmented Fine-Tuning (RAFT) and its implementation using Cisco’s pyATS and Langchain pipelines. We explored how this methodology leverages […]
John Capobianco

# The Day the Network Became Self-Aware: Building a Multi-Human, Multi-NetClaw BGP Agent Mesh March 1, 2026
**March 1, 2026** *By John Capobianco on his 48th birthday — with NetClaw 🦞* — ## Prologue: A Different Kind of Sunday Morning Most engineers spend Sunday morning with coffee and maybe a lab they’ve been meaning to spin up for weeks. On March 1, 2026, John Capobianco and Sean Mahoney spent theirs doing something […]
John Capobianco
6 days of netclaw – by netclaw February 27, 2026
# Six Days, 82 Skills, and a Community PR: How NetClaw Went from Idea to 160 Stars Six days ago I pushed the first commit of [NetClaw](https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw) — an open-source, CCIE-level AI network engineering agent built on [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw). The idea was simple: give Claude the same mental models a senior network engineer carries, then connect […]
John Capobianco
8 hours of netclaw – by netclaw February 20, 2026
We Gave a Slack Channel Full of Engineers an AI Network Agent. Here’s What Happened. A live red-team session, a VASI BGP lab, and 30+ social engineering attempts — all in one Friday afternoon. ─── The Setup The premise was simple: drop an AI agent with real network access into a Slack channel full of […]
John Capobianco
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Part 2: The Multi-Protocol Agent January 18, 2026
## Or: How I Taught an AI Agent to Speak Every Language in the Network *Building on [Part 1: Teaching an AI to Speak OSPF](https://www.automateyournetwork.ca/uncategorized/i-taught-an-ai-agent-to-speak-ospf-its-now-my-routers-neighbour/)* — ## The Question That Started It All (Again) Remember when we asked: “What if networks didn’t need to be configured—what if they could just… talk?” We proved that with […]
John Capobianco
I Taught an AI Agent to Speak OSPF: It’s Now My Router’s Neighbour January 16, 2026
Wont You Be My Neighbour? ## The Network as a Conversation, Not a Configuration For decades, we’ve treated networks as things to be **configured**. We push commands, pull outputs, parse CLI text, and hope our automation scripts survive the next OS upgrade. **What if we’ve been thinking about this wrong?** What if networks aren’t meant […]
John Capobianco
Vibe Coding: Building a CCIE-Level Enterprise Network with AI, GAIT, and pyATS January 11, 2026
Vibe Coding: Building a CCIE-Level Enterprise Network with AI, GAIT, and pyATS The Power of AI-Driven Network Configuration with Version Control Date: January 11, 2026 Author: Claude Code (Anthropic) + Ralph Wiggum Loop Tools: Claude Code CLI, GAIT (version control for AI reasoning), pyATS MCP, Ralph Loop Network: 4 devices (2 routers, 2 switches) Configuration […]
John Capobianco
Building the Future of Network Automation: RALPH, GAIT, and pyATS in Harmony January 11, 2026
Building the Future of Network Automation: RALPH, GAIT, and pyATS in Harmony Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on an incredible journey pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI-assisted network automation. What started as an experiment has evolved into a sophisticated workflow that’s transforming how I approach network engineering and automation. The Power […]
John Capobianco
VibeOps Forum December 29, 2025
I was getting pretty tired and aggravated at all of the networking forums and discords and slack channels for being *so* anti-AI; can’t share ideas; can’t discuss AI / MCP / Agents; can’t bring Vibe Coding or VibeOps topics out in the open without being dogpiled by curmugeons and Luddite’s and ancient thinking. It was […]
John Capobianco
Now available: Cisco pyATS: Network Test and Automation Solution June 27, 2024
Cisco Press: Cisco pyATS Network Test and Automation Solution: Data-driven and reusable testing for modern networks | Cisco Press Amazon Cisco pyATS ― Network Test and Automation Solution: Data-driven and reusable testing for modern networks (Networking Technology): 9780138031671: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com The post Now available: Cisco pyATS: Network Test and Automation Solution appeared […]
John Capobianco
Local RAFT: Fine-tuning Llama3 with domain-specific knowledge locally and privately May 11, 2024
An approach to fine-tuning using open source tools Recap of Part 1 In the first part of this series (Augmenting Network Engineering with RAFT – Automate Your Network ), we dove into the innovative world of Retrieval Augmented Fine-Tuning (RAFT) and its implementation using Cisco’s pyATS and Langchain pipelines. We explored how this methodology leverages […]
John Capobianco