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A single prompt turned a 3-node Arista cEOS lab into a working MPLS L3VPN — RR, LDP, VPNv4, two VRFs. Opus 4.7 patched its own skill's blind spot mid-run, caught an IACL ordering trap, and verified itself with VRF pings.
What a network MCP server is, why multi-device correlation is the real value, and the hard problems: two paths for different use cases, command whitelists as a safety model, and auth delegation.
A reference guide to YANG data models — the modeling language that defines what NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI actually transport, and how to work with it.
A hands-on guide to installing and configuring Claude Code for network engineering — from CLAUDE.md setup to encoding BGP best practices as a skill and generating device configs.
A deep technical analysis of draft-yang-nmrg-mcp-nm and its constellation of companion specs — what the IETF is proposing for MCP in network management, what holds up, and what's missing.
Watched the Cisco Live 2026 Amsterdam opening keynote. Cisco is going full AI mode — no surprise there, but interesting to see how they’re positioning it across the portfolio. Will be following the rest of Cisco Live remotely to catch the technical sessions and see what’s actually substance vs. slide deck hype.