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Modernizing pyATS MCP: Streamable HTTP, Nine New Tools, and Two Bugs From April 2025 That Nobody Noticed August 23, 2026
pyATS MCP has been live since April 2025. Bringing it to Streamable HTTP and nine new tools meant an isolated venv (after breaking my own other MCP servers first), a real CML lab whose testbed was pointing at the wrong network, two silent bugs from the original release, and an honest benchmark that didn't say […]
John Capobianco
Running Cisco Antares-1B Locally (macOS / Apple Silicon) August 11, 2026
A working start-to-finish guide to running Cisco Foundation AI's Antares-1B vulnerability localization model on Apple Silicon — including the one non-obvious BF16 conversion step that will otherwise waste your afternoon. The post Running Cisco Antares-1B Locally (macOS / Apple Silicon) appeared first on Automate Your Network.
John Capobianco
Twenty-Three Specs in Six Days: What Happened When I Handed NetClaw a Roadmap August 5, 2026
I wrote down twenty-five gaps in what NetClaw could actually reach, ordered them by dependency, and set one rule: one item, one spec, one branch, no batching. Six days later twenty-three specs had merged — twelve new MCP servers, twenty-three new skills, 199 skills to 221 — and reality had corrected my own roadmap four […]
John Capobianco
My Network Agent Lives in My Pocket Now — And Nobody Is in the Middle July 26, 2026
From an emulator Claude Code drove itself, to a real Android phone in someone else's hands, to an iPhone talking to that Android through my own Border — voice, photos, and a live CML lab, all over NCFED. No Slack, no Discord, no Webex, no third party in the path. The post My Network Agent […]
John Capobianco
BISQUE: NetClaw gets a bookshelf — an offline, agentic RAG knowledge base July 18, 2026
Introducing BISQUE — the Base of Ingested Semantic Queries for Unified Embeddings — NetClaw's fully offline, agentic RAG knowledge base. Because the tastiest thing you can make from claws is a bisque. Uploaded a 212-page book from Slack to cited answers in under three minutes, with honest misses instead of hallucinations. The post BISQUE: NetClaw […]
John Capobianco
Claws that prove who they are: certificate security comes to NetClaw federation July 15, 2026
NetClaw federation used to trust a peer's identity on its say-so, in the clear. Claw Certification adds TLS encryption and real cryptographic identity — domain-verified via Let's Encrypt or pinned trust-on-first-use — and we cut the first claw over on a live domain. The post Claws that prove who they are: certificate security comes to […]
John Capobianco
NetClaws, Assemble: introducing N2N Federation and the NCFED protocol July 12, 2026
NetClaw's mesh could always tell you who was online. Now it tells you what they can do — and lets you use it. Introducing N2N Federation and NCFED, a new protocol for federating AI network engineers safely. The post NetClaws, Assemble: introducing N2N Federation and the NCFED protocol appeared first on Automate Your Network.
John Capobianco
Giving NetClaw Eyes and Hands: From Browser Control to Full Desktop Control July 8, 2026
Most of what NetClaw does, it does through APIs — gNMI, REST, NETCONF, GraphQL. That’s the right way to automate a network: structured, auditable, repeatable. But real networks are messy, and not everything worth touching has a clean API behind it. Some of the most useful information lives behind a login screen in a vendor’s […]
John Capobianco
I Rebuilt a Real Cisco Network as a 3D World — Inside NetClaw’s New Unreal Engine 5.8 Integration July 3, 2026
NetClaw can now clone a live Cisco Modeling Labs topology — gathered with pyATS — straight into a 3D world inside Unreal Engine 5.8, over the Model Context Protocol. Here's the achievement, the vision, and (for the technically curious) every hurdle it took to get there. The post I Rebuilt a Real Cisco Network as […]
John Capobianco
NetClaw + IP Fabric: Network Assurance Meets AI-Powered Automation June 27, 2026
Announcing the integration of IP Fabric's network assurance platform into NetClaw through 10 new MCP tools for health assessment, path analysis, visual diagrams, and API discovery. A collaboration with Daren Fulwell spanning nearly a decade. The post NetClaw + IP Fabric: Network Assurance Meets AI-Powered Automation appeared first on Automate Your Network.
John Capobianco

Modernizing pyATS MCP: Streamable HTTP, Nine New Tools, and Two Bugs From April 2025 That Nobody Noticed August 23, 2026
pyATS MCP has been live since April 2025. Bringing it to Streamable HTTP and nine new tools meant an isolated venv (after breaking my own other MCP servers first), a real CML lab whose testbed was pointing at the wrong network, two silent bugs from the original release, and an honest benchmark that didn't say […]
John Capobianco
Running Cisco Antares-1B Locally (macOS / Apple Silicon) August 11, 2026
A working start-to-finish guide to running Cisco Foundation AI's Antares-1B vulnerability localization model on Apple Silicon — including the one non-obvious BF16 conversion step that will otherwise waste your afternoon. The post Running Cisco Antares-1B Locally (macOS / Apple Silicon) appeared first on Automate Your Network.
John Capobianco
Twenty-Three Specs in Six Days: What Happened When I Handed NetClaw a Roadmap August 5, 2026
I wrote down twenty-five gaps in what NetClaw could actually reach, ordered them by dependency, and set one rule: one item, one spec, one branch, no batching. Six days later twenty-three specs had merged — twelve new MCP servers, twenty-three new skills, 199 skills to 221 — and reality had corrected my own roadmap four […]
John Capobianco
My Network Agent Lives in My Pocket Now — And Nobody Is in the Middle July 26, 2026
From an emulator Claude Code drove itself, to a real Android phone in someone else's hands, to an iPhone talking to that Android through my own Border — voice, photos, and a live CML lab, all over NCFED. No Slack, no Discord, no Webex, no third party in the path. The post My Network Agent […]
John Capobianco
BISQUE: NetClaw gets a bookshelf — an offline, agentic RAG knowledge base July 18, 2026
Introducing BISQUE — the Base of Ingested Semantic Queries for Unified Embeddings — NetClaw's fully offline, agentic RAG knowledge base. Because the tastiest thing you can make from claws is a bisque. Uploaded a 212-page book from Slack to cited answers in under three minutes, with honest misses instead of hallucinations. The post BISQUE: NetClaw […]
John Capobianco
Claws that prove who they are: certificate security comes to NetClaw federation July 15, 2026
NetClaw federation used to trust a peer's identity on its say-so, in the clear. Claw Certification adds TLS encryption and real cryptographic identity — domain-verified via Let's Encrypt or pinned trust-on-first-use — and we cut the first claw over on a live domain. The post Claws that prove who they are: certificate security comes to […]
John Capobianco
NetClaws, Assemble: introducing N2N Federation and the NCFED protocol July 12, 2026
NetClaw's mesh could always tell you who was online. Now it tells you what they can do — and lets you use it. Introducing N2N Federation and NCFED, a new protocol for federating AI network engineers safely. The post NetClaws, Assemble: introducing N2N Federation and the NCFED protocol appeared first on Automate Your Network.
John Capobianco
Giving NetClaw Eyes and Hands: From Browser Control to Full Desktop Control July 8, 2026
Most of what NetClaw does, it does through APIs — gNMI, REST, NETCONF, GraphQL. That’s the right way to automate a network: structured, auditable, repeatable. But real networks are messy, and not everything worth touching has a clean API behind it. Some of the most useful information lives behind a login screen in a vendor’s […]
John Capobianco
I Rebuilt a Real Cisco Network as a 3D World — Inside NetClaw’s New Unreal Engine 5.8 Integration July 3, 2026
NetClaw can now clone a live Cisco Modeling Labs topology — gathered with pyATS — straight into a 3D world inside Unreal Engine 5.8, over the Model Context Protocol. Here's the achievement, the vision, and (for the technically curious) every hurdle it took to get there. The post I Rebuilt a Real Cisco Network as […]
John Capobianco
NetClaw + IP Fabric: Network Assurance Meets AI-Powered Automation June 27, 2026
Announcing the integration of IP Fabric's network assurance platform into NetClaw through 10 new MCP tools for health assessment, path analysis, visual diagrams, and API discovery. A collaboration with Daren Fulwell spanning nearly a decade. The post NetClaw + IP Fabric: Network Assurance Meets AI-Powered Automation appeared first on Automate Your Network.
John Capobianco