Automate Your Network – Page 5 – The modern approach to enterprise network management

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

Space APIs and Mind Maps!

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

New threads!

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022

Learn how to make “business ready” documents!

DevNet Snack Minutes Episode #63!

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

Guest who’s back?

I returned to The Art of Network Engineering Podcast!

Check it out!

December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

Introducing Mind nMap – An Open Source Network Mind Map Tool

automateyournetwork/mind_nmap: An automated network Mind Map utility build from markmap.js.org (github.com)

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

Art of Network Engineering

This was the most fun I’ve ever had on a podcast – I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

Shut / No Shut – With the Click of a Button

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

I won!

Thank you to Cisco DevNet and everybody in my community who has supported me over the years!

I won!

The DevNet Creator Award is how we recognize contributions from our community members.

Congratulations John Capobianco, 2021 DevNet Creator Awards Winner.
Find out more: https://t.co/Atjl811x97 and follow John here: @John_Capobianco
— Cisco DevNet (@CiscoDevNet) October 19, 2021

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021

Automate Your Network – The Educative.io Online Course!

I am so very happy to announce after 8 months of development Automate Your Network is now available on educative.io as an online course (early access) !

Automate Your Network – Learn Interactively (educative.io)

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021

My first Packet Pushers Blog!

Check it out!

Infrastructure as Software – Applying A Software Design Pattern to Network Automation!

Applying A Software Design Pattern To Network Automation – Packet Pushers

11,892 Probabilities, 48 Cents: What Happened When I Let Jev Grade All 227 of NetClaw’s Skills September 20, 2026
TypeSafe's Jev doesn't write a single word back — it returns a calibrated probability in under half a second. I pointed 11,892 of those probabilities at every skill in NetClaw: what's missing, what silently overlaps, and one bug a probability score alone could never explain. Total bill: forty-eight cents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Capobianco

11,892 Probabilities, 48 Cents: What Happened When I Let Jev Grade All 227 of NetClaw’s Skills September 20, 2026
TypeSafe's Jev doesn't write a single word back — it returns a calibrated probability in under half a second. I pointed 11,892 of those probabilities at every skill in NetClaw: what's missing, what silently overlaps, and one bug a probability score alone could never explain. Total bill: forty-eight cents.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Capobianco

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