Cheers to a great week! Prost!

Day 2 at AutoCon 5 – the VibeOps Lounge is open and the agents are ready. 🤖 Live FlowAI demos: intent to governed action from plain language. Bring your hardest infra problem. Tomorrow → Chris' closing keynote, 9:10 AM main stage. Prost to automation 🍻#AutoCon5

We're on fire this morning!

The VibeOps Lounge is OPEN at #AutoCon5. 🔥 Live FlowAI demos already running. Real agents. Real networks. Real conversations. All week in Munich. Come find us on the expo floor. #NetworkAutomation #AgenticAI #MCP @John_Capobianco @AutomateIP

Man this room is packed!

"Does anybody user wireshark twice a year and it takes you two hours to figure out how to use filters all over again" - @John_Capobianco that got a chuckle out of me

Packed room at #AutoCon5 for @John_Capobianco's workshop "From RAG to MCP." 🇩🇪 With @AutomateIP @MacroEngineered — what RAG got us, where it hit a wall & why MCP bridges AI reasoning to infrastructure that acts. Great to see this many engineers digging into AI in network ops.

Sold out in Munich !! @AutomateIP @MacroEngineered @Itential

I feel like when I create content nowadays I have to leave a typo in every now and then as an easter egg to prove it wasn't all done by AI :/.

This is going to be super fun and I'm extremely jealous. Join @John_Capobianco for this!

AWS is looking fresh this morning

🏆 We won the Hackathon for MCP & AI Agents 2026! The @Itential Hackathon Team is incredibly proud to share that our kagent_vision project took home first place in the MCP & AI Agents Starter Track at MCP_HACK//26. Knowing that our submission was reviewed by a panel like Kelsey Hightower, Chris Aniszczyk (CTO, CNCF), Alan Blount (Google ADK), Nathan Taber (NVIDIA DGX Cloud), Carlos Santana (AWS), Keith Mattix II (Microsoft), my good friend @SebbyCorp , Lin Sun, Christian Posta, Dmytro Rashko, and Michael Levan — and being recognized by them — is humbling in the best way. This is a panel that has, quite literally, written the books on cloud-native and agentic AI. What made this win special was the how: this wasn't a one-person sprint. The Itential Hackathon Team collaborated tightly across engineering, product, and design to get kagent_vision across the line — late-night debugging sessions, whiteboard architecture battles, and the kind of "let's just try it" energy that only the best teams have. Every commit had a fingerprint on it. 🔓 And the best part — kagent_vision is fully open source. It's a kagent Agent with Vision: capture photos, transform them with Nano Banana, animate them with Veo3 — and yes, it supports ASL. You can clone it, run it, break it, extend it. The whole point of MCP is composability, and we want builders to take this and run with it. 👉 Repo: lnkd.in/dtD46m9F 👉 Hackathon: aihackathon.dev/ Huge thanks to solo.io and the entire MCP_HACK//26 organizing crew for putting on a world-class event, and to the global MCP community for being one of the most exciting places to build right now. And a huge thanks to Jessica Newland @AutomateIP Ankit Bhansali @MacroEngineered @KristenHRachels Holly Holcomb Jesse Ford Peter Sprygada for being part of the hackathon team ! As a team we have agreed to donate 100% of the $1000 prize to the Atlanta Humane Society. Ultimately the Vision Agent prize will go to helping the dogs and cats of Atlanta. For this, I am even more proud. #MCP #AIAgents #OpenSource #Hackathon #Itential #CloudNative #AgenticAI #kagent lnkd.in/d7cM8eGS

Opus 4.7 is officially out. I'm about to let it rip on Claude Code. We'll see what happens....

Went from a blank page to full DNS orchestration in minutes using Spec Driven Development for Itential Platform workflows. Check it out: itential.com/resource/demo/s…

So check this out I go out on vacation and then my RSA expires on GitLab which breaks a lot of stuff. That puts a whole different meaning to forgetting your password after coming back from vacation :)

I take the week off and Anthropic goes and leaks their Claude Code code base. I guess I should take time more often.

Stony Man Overlook

# NetClaw Update - New Integrations Two new MCP integrations and four new skills just landed in @openclaw NetClaw. We are up to 330 stars and 81 forks! --- ## Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) Enterprise MCP NetClaw now speaks Ansible. Full integration with Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform through four independent MCP servers: **AAP Controller** (45 tools) — Inventory management, job template execution and monitoring, project SCM sync, ad-hoc commands, host and group management, dynamic inventory sources, and Ansible Galaxy collection and role discovery. **Event-Driven Ansible** (12 tools) — Activation lifecycle management, rulebook listing and inspection, decision environment management, and event stream monitoring. **ansible-lint** (9 tools) — Playbook and role validation with configurable profiles, syntax checking, best practice enforcement, and project-wide analysis. **Red Hat Docs** — PDF-first documentation access across 50 official Red Hat domains with version auto-detection. Three new skills put it all together: - `aap-automation` — Full automation lifecycle from inventory audit through playbook execution to result verification - `aap-eda` — Reactive automation triggered by external events flowing into EDA rulebooks - `aap-lint` — Quality gate for Ansible content before AAP deployment Source: github.com/sibilleb/AAP-Ente… --- ## Firewall Rule Analyzer MCP written by @AutomateIP Multi-vendor firewall rule analysis is now built into NetClaw. The fwrule MCP server detects overlap, shadowing, conflicts, and duplication across nine firewall platforms using six-dimensional set intersection analysis. **Supported vendors:** Palo Alto PAN-OS | Cisco ASA | Cisco FTD | Cisco IOS/IOS-XE | Cisco IOS-XR | Check Point | Juniper SRX | Juniper Junos | Nokia SR OS **3 tools:** - `analyze_firewall_rule_overlap` — Compare candidate rules against existing rulesets across zones, addresses, ports, protocols, actions, and applications - `parse_policy` — Normalize vendor-native configs into a standardized JSON schema - `list_supported_vendors` — Reference info on all supported platforms No credentials required. Works entirely on config text input as a pure offline analysis engine. Two input modes: pass raw vendor configs and let the built-in parsers handle it, or provide pre-normalized JSON directly. New skill: - `fwrule-analyzer` — Pre-change rule validation, cross-vendor policy audit, and ruleset hygiene workflows Source: github.com/AutomateIP/fwrule… --- ## By the numbers - 5 new MCP servers (43 total) - 4 new skills (91 total) - 50 installation steps - Full UI HUD integration for both platforms All available now on the `aac_firewalls` branch.

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I merged in more skills and MCPs into netclaw today ! More to come but I’ve added @AutomateIP firewall MCP as a skill and @ansible AAP as an MCP and Skill