catalyst-center-readonly

catalyst-center-readonly is a skill for Claude Code from automateyournetwork/netclaw. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,311 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only connection to Cisco Catalyst Center, a system for managing and monitoring Cisco networks. It can search and run the platform’s read-only operations for devices, sites, wireless networks, health, compliance, software, and events.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect device inventory and site hierarchy, review wireless and assurance health, check compliance and software images, examine events, and query other read-only Catalyst Center data.
Why use it?
It lets you investigate a Cisco network without changing its configuration. It also helps find the correct operation before requesting details, which matters because the platform has many operations with specific names.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to inspect device inventory and site hierarchy, review wireless and assurance health, check compliance and software images, examine events, and query other read-only Catalyst Center data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/automateyournetwork/netclaw/catalyst-center-readonly
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill catalyst-center-readonly
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,311 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.01311
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00131

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7c1851c5bda0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

catalyst-center-readonly scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

workspace/skills/catalyst-center-readonly/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Catalyst Center (read-only)

Server

catc-mcp — a NetClaw client over Cisco's official tool catalogue (cisco-en-programmability/catc-mcp-oss, Apache-2.0, release/2.3.7.11). Strictly read-only: all 514 GET operations, the one mutating operation excluded. Manifest 1,821 tokens, where inlining every upstream tool would cost 64,420.

The 10 tools

Start with discovery — the catalogue is far too large to carry in the tool list:

Tool Use
catc_find(query, group, limit) Search all 514 operations by keyword or URI. Start here
catc_describe_operation(name) Full parameter schema for one operation

Then dispatchcatc_<group>(operation, params):

catc_devices · catc_sites · catc_wireless · catc_health · catc_compliance · catc_software · catc_events · catc_other

Operation names are not guessable. They are generated from Cisco's API spec — the device list is api_getSites-style naming, not getDeviceList. Always catc_find first. Guessing wastes a call and gets a refusal that names near-matches.

⚠ Two rules

1. An empty inventory is not an empty network

Zero devices means this controller manages none. It does not mean the network is empty. The causes are different and matter:

Cause What it means
Discovery has not run devices exist, Catalyst Center has not found them
RBAC scopes the account the estate is larger than this account can see
The wrong appliance you are asking a controller that manages nothing
A filter excluded everything your parameters, not the network
Genuinely nothing onboarded the only case that is about the estate

This is not hypothetical. The two DevNet sandboxes share credentials and are not equivalent — sandboxdnac.cisco.com has 4 devices and 25 sites; sandboxdnac2.cisco.com has 0 devices and authenticates perfectly. An inventory answer from the second looks exactly like a real empty estate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 103 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 7c1851c5bda0

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catalyst-center-readonly is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (652 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,311 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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