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**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 their...


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# 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 mo...


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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.

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The Setup

The premise was simple: drop an AI agent with real network access into ...


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## 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)


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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?**...


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