AI Agents: An Artificially Intelligent Network Engineer

🚀 AI Agents: Not Just the Future—They’re the Present! 🚀

I’m beyond excited to share something incredible—a fully functional AI Agent that operates a Cisco IOS XE router through natural language commands. This isn’t just a concept. It’s real, it’s working, and it’s built with only 425 lines of Python! 🤯

🛠️ Key Highlights:

✅ No pyATS job files. No hardcoded scripts.

✅ Decorated pyATS functions as tools for the AI Agent to use dynamically.

✅ Powered by Ollama and Command-R7B (local, private, free, and
confidential).

✅ Directly manages network devices like a junior network engineer would—but faster and smarter.

🔍 What can it do?

Interpret natural language commands.

Execute real-time configurations on Cisco IOS XE routers.

Provide instant, accurate insights—completely autonomously.

Full configuration management !

💡 Why this matters:

AI Agents aren’t some distant future of 2025—they’re here, now. This is a real-world example of how AI can transform IT operations today, saving time, reducing human error, and empowering engineers to focus on strategic tasks.

This isn’t a prototype. It’s a free, local, and confidential AI Agent ready to revolutionize how we interact with network infrastructure.

Imagine scaling this across your entire network. The possibilities are endless. Oh and because it's using pyATS - it's very fast. This took seconds to perform even though I am constrained by my local GPU (and RTX 2060 in case you are wondering)

Look at the logs - you can see the tail end of the pyATS job running and the "show ip interface brief GigabitEthernet1" command being parsed to JSON and then a final /api/generate call to give me the human answer !

🔗 Curious about how this works or how to bring AI Agents into your operations? Let’s connect and explore the future—today!

Get the code here:

https://github.com/automateyournetwork/ReACT_AI_Agent_for_Cisco_IOS_XE

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