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# network-aiops

> **Disclaimer**: This is a community-maintained open-source project and is **not
> affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cisco, Arista, Juniper, NetBox
> Labs, or any network vendor.** Vendor and product names are trademarks of their
> respective owners. Source code is publicly auditable at
> [github.com/AIops-tools/Network-AIops](https://github.com/AIops-tools/Network-AIops)
> under the MIT license.

Governed multi-vendor network device operations for AI agents — **33 MCP tools**,
every one wrapped with the bundled `@governed_tool` harness: a local unified audit
log under `~/.network-aiops/`, token/runaway budget guard, undo-token recording,
and descriptive risk-tier labels. Credentials (device passwords + the NetBox token)
are kept in an **encrypted store** (`secrets.enc`), never plaintext on disk.

Devices are reached over [NAPALM](https://napalm.readthedocs.io/); an optional
NetBox block adds source-of-truth lookups.

> **Standalone**: the governance harness is bundled in the package
> (`network_aiops.governance`) — network-aiops has no external skill-family
> dependency. Coverage focuses on common device operations and is not yet exhaustive.

> **Verification status**: the test suite is mock-based; not yet validated against live
> devices — self-testable with cEOS / vMX / containerlab. See
> [docs/VERIFICATION.md](docs/VERIFICATION.md).

## What works

Read device facts, interfaces (+ counters/IP), BGP/LLDP neighbors (summary and
detail), ARP/MAC tables, VLANs, route lookups, hardware environment, optics, NTP,
users, SNMP info, VRFs, and an aggregated `device_health`; run read-only **RCA
diagnostics** that flag down/erroring/flapping interfaces and unhealthy BGP
neighbors — each finding citing the measured number that tripped it; back up the
running config, dry-run a config diff, and merge/replace/rollback config — across the five
core NAPALM platforms below. Optional NetBox lookups (devices + interfaces) confirm
intended state before a change.

NAPALM does not implement every getter on every platform; an unsupported getter
returns a teaching error ("not supported by the `<driver>` driver") rather than
crashing. Secrets are never returned — `get_users` redacts password hashes and
`get_snmp_information` redacts community strings.

## Supported devices

| Platform | NAPALM driver | Transport |
|----------|---------------|-----------|
| Cisco IOS / IOS-XE | `ios` | SSH |
| Cisco Nexus NX-OS | `nxos` (NX-API) / `nxos_ssh` (SSH) | HTTPS / SSH |
| Cisco IOS-XR | `iosxr` | SSH (XML agent) |
| Arista EOS | `eos` | eAPI (HTTPS) |
| Juniper Junos | `junos` | NETCONF (SSH) |

Additional platforms (Nokia SR OS / SR Linux, Huawei VRP, etc.) are reachable via
NAPALM **community drivers** but are **not officially tested here**. Need one?
See [Contributing](#contributing--feature-requests).

## Supported actions

| Action | Tool | R/W | Risk |
|--------|------|:---:|:----:|
| Device facts (hostname/vendor/model/OS/serial/uptime) | `device_facts` | R | low |
| Interfaces (up/down, speed, description) | `get_interfaces` | R | low |
| Interface traffic + error counters | `get_interfaces_counters` | R | low |
| Interface IP addresses | `get_interfaces_ip` | R | low |
| BGP neighbors (summary / detail) | `get_bgp_neighbors` / `get_bgp_neighbors_detail` | R | low |
| LLDP neighbors (summary / detail) | `get_lldp_neighbors` / `get_lldp_neighbors_detail` | R | low |
| ARP table | `get_arp_table` | R | low |
| MAC address table | `get_mac_address_table` | R | low |
| VLANs | `get_vlans` | R | low |
| Route lookup | `get_route_to` | R | low |
| Hardware environment (fans/temp/power/CPU/mem) | `get_environment` | R | low |
| Optical transceiver levels | `get_optics` | R | low |
| NTP servers / sync stats | `get_ntp_servers` / `get_ntp_stats` | R | low |
| Local users (hashes redacted) | `get_users` | R | low |
| SNMP info (communities redacted) | `get_snmp_information` | R | low |
| Network instances (VRFs) | `get_network_instances` | R | low |
| Aggregated device health | `device_health` | R | low |
| Interface health RCA (down / errors / discards / flaps) | `interface_health_rca` | R | low |
| BGP neighbor RCA (down / shut / reset / route-less) | `bgp_neighbor_rca` | R | low |
| Back up running config | `config_backup` | R | low |
| Diff a candidate (dry-run) | `config_diff` | R | low |
| Merge config + commit | `config_merge` | W | medium |
| Replace full config + commit | `config_replace` | W | **high** |
| Roll back last commit | `config_rollback` | W | medium |
| NetBox list devices | `netbox_list_devices` | R | low |
| NetBox get device | `netbox_get_device` | R | low |
| NetBox device interfaces | `netbox_device_interfaces` | R | low |
| List recorded reversible writes | `undo_list` | R | low |
| Apply a recorded inverse (governed, single-use, dry-run capable) | `undo_apply` | W | medium |

## What this tool does, and does not, decide

It delivers multi-vendor network device (NAPALM) + NetBox operations — reads and writes —
accurately and efficiently, and records every one of them. It does **not** decide whether a
write is allowed to happen. That is the agent's judgement, or the permission of the account you
connect it with: log in with a device account at a read-only privilege level (and give NetBox a
read-only API token), and the writes fail at the server — the place that actually owns the
permission.

So there is no read-only switch, no policy file, no approval gate to configure. The one thing the
tool guarantees is that nothing is silent: **every call, over MCP and over the CLI alike, lands an
audit row** in `~/.network-aiops/audit.db`, and destructive writes still capture their before-state
and record an inverse where one exists.

> Each tool declares a `risk_level`, carried into the audit row as a descriptive tier
> (none/confirm/review) — so a reviewer can see at a glance that a row was a high-risk delete. It
> is a label, not a gate.

Running a smaller / local model? See
[agent-guardrails.md](skills/network-aiops/references/agent-guardrails.md) — it lists the guardrails
this tool enforces for you (so you don't spend prompt budget restating them) and gives a ready-made
system prompt for what's left.

## Quick Start

### As a Claude Code plugin

One install gives an agent both the skill and the MCP server:

```
/plugin marketplace add AIops-tools/marketplace
/plugin install network-aiops@aiops-tools
```

The MCP server is fetched with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) and pinned to the
package version this plugin declares, so an audit row can be traced back to the
code that wrote it. Credentials are still configured with `network-aiops init` — see below.

### As an OpenClaw plugin

The same bundle is published on [ClawHub](https://clawhub.ai/plugins), where one
install delivers the skill and its MCP server together:

```bash
openclaw plugins install clawhub:@zw008/network-aiops
openclaw skills info network-aiops          # expect: Visible to model: yes
```

Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so it loads the plugin. The MCP server is
fetched with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), pinned to this exact release, so
`uvx` has to be on `PATH` — without it the skill still installs but reports
`Visible to model: no`. Credentials are configured exactly as below.

### As a CLI or standalone MCP server

```bash
uv tool install network-aiops
network-aiops init                                  # wizard: device + driver + host + encrypted password
network-aiops doctor
network-aiops device facts -t core-sw1
network-aiops device health -t core-sw1
network-aiops diagnose interface-health -t core-sw1   # worst-first interface RCA
network-aiops diagnose bgp -t core-sw1                # worst-first BGP-neighbor RCA
network-aiops config backup -t core-sw1 -o core-sw1.cfg
```

### Playbook: triage a flaky uplink before touching config

```bash
# 1. Ask the device what's actually wrong — findings are ranked worst-first and
#    each cites the measured value (error count, last-flap seconds, uptime).
network-aiops diagnose interface-health -t core-sw1
network-aiops diagnose bgp -t core-sw1

# 2. If interface-health flags a link admin-up/oper-down with climbing errors and
#    BGP shows the peer on that path recently reset, you have your root cause: a
#    physical-layer fault (cable/optic) resetting the session — not routing.

# 3. Confirm intended state, then remediate with the governed, audited path.
network-aiops device counters -t core-sw1
network-aiops config diff -t core-sw1 -f fix.cfg      # dry-run the change first
```

Create `~/.network-aiops/config.yaml`:

```yaml
devices:
  - name: core-sw1            # used as -t core-sw1
    driver: eos               # ios | nxos | nxos_ssh | iosxr | eos | junos
    host: 10.0.0.1
    username: admin
    optional_args:            # passed verbatim to NAPALM (optional)
      secret: enable-pw       # enable/secret
      port: 443
# Optional source-of-truth:
netbox:
  url: https://netbox.example.com
```

Secrets are stored **encrypted** in `~/.network-aiops/secrets.enc` (Fernet/AES +
scrypt-derived key; chmod 600) — never in config.yaml or a plaintext `.env`.
Device passwords are keyed by device name; the NetBox token uses the reserved
name `netbox-token`:

```bash
network-aiops init                     # interactive wizard (recommended)
network-aiops secret set core-sw1      # store a device password (hidden prompt)
network-aiops secret set netbox-token  # store the NetBox API token
network-aiops secret list              # names only — values are never printed
network-aiops secret migrate           # import a legacy plaintext .env, then delete it
```

Export `NETWORK_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD` to unlock the store non-interactively (MCP
server / cron). Legacy plaintext env vars (`NETWORK_<TARGET_UPPER>_PASSWORD`,
`NETWORK_NETBOX_TOKEN`) remain a deprecated fallback. An empty device password is
allowed for key-based SSH auth.

## MCP

```jsonc
{
  "command": "network-aiops",
  "args": ["mcp"],
  "env": {
    "NETWORK_AIOPS_CONFIG": "~/.network-aiops/config.yaml",
    "NETWORK_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD": "…"   // unlocks the encrypted secret store
  }
}
```

## Audit & Safety

- Every tool call is logged to `~/.network-aiops/audit.db` (local SQLite;
  relocate with `NETWORK_AIOPS_HOME`).
- `config_merge` / `config_replace` capture the pre-change running config and
  record an inverse `config_replace`-to-backup undo descriptor.
- `config_replace` is `risk_level=high`; CLI destructive commands (`config
  merge/replace/rollback`) require double confirmation and support `--dry-run`
  (which prints the diff without committing).
- All device text passes through `sanitize()` (output hygiene: control/format-char
  stripping + truncation).
- Device passwords and the NetBox token live only in the encrypted `secrets.enc`
  (chmod 600); tools never return passwords, SNMP community strings, or hashes.

See `skills/network-aiops/SKILL.md` and `SECURITY.md` for details.

## Companion Skills

| If you want… | Use |
|--------------|-----|
| Network device config / facts (Cisco/Arista/Juniper) | **network-aiops** (this) |
| Kubernetes cluster operations | a cluster ops skill |
| Hypervisor VM lifecycle | a hypervisor ops skill |

## Contributing & feature requests

Coverage is intentionally focused. **Need a device or action
that isn't here yet?** Open an issue or pull request at
[github.com/AIops-tools/Network-AIops](https://github.com/AIops-tools/Network-AIops/issues)
— contributions, feature requests, and comments are all welcome.

## License

MIT — [github.com/AIops-tools/Network-AIops](https://github.com/AIops-tools/Network-AIops)