clab-lab-management

clab-lab-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from automateyournetwork/netclaw. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,880 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A manager for ContainerLab, a system for running network-device test labs in containers. It connects to a ContainerLab API server to control labs and their nodes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list labs, deploy network topologies, inspect lab status and management addresses, run commands on nodes, and destroy labs with cleanup options.
Why use it?
It avoids managing test topologies and node commands manually through separate tools. It keeps common lab actions in one workflow, including starting, inspecting, using, and removing labs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to list labs, deploy network topologies, inspect lab status and management addresses, run commands on nodes, and destroy labs with cleanup options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/automateyournetwork/netclaw/clab-lab-management
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill clab-lab-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,880 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 $0.00067 $0.01880
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00940
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00188

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3957e64b240a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clab-lab-management 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/clab-lab-management/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ContainerLab Lab Management

MCP Server

  • Command: python3 -u $CLAB_MCP_SCRIPT (stdio transport)
  • Requires: CLAB_API_SERVER_URL, CLAB_API_USERNAME, CLAB_API_PASSWORD environment variables
  • Auto-authentication: Every tool call auto-authenticates — no explicit authenticate call needed

How to Call Tools

python3 $MCP_CALL "python3 -u $CLAB_MCP_SCRIPT" <tool_name> '<args_json>'

Available Tools

Tool Parameters What It Does
authenticate apiServerURL, username, password Manual auth override (optional — auto-auth handles normal usage)
listLabs none List all labs on the ContainerLab server
deployLab topologyContent (JSON object), reconfigure (bool) Deploy a new lab topology
inspectLab labName, details (bool) Get lab details, node status, management IPs
execCommand labName, command, nodeName (optional) Execute a command on one or all nodes
destroyLab labName, cleanup (bool), graceful (bool) Destroy a lab and clean up resources

Workflow: Deploy a New Lab

When a user wants to create a containerized network lab:

  1. List existing labs: listLabs — check what's already running, avoid name conflicts
  2. Deploy topology: deployLab with a topology JSON object
  3. Inspect lab: inspectLab with details: true — verify success, get management IPs
  4. Execute commands: execCommand — run show commands to verify connectivity
  5. Report back: Tell the user the lab is ready with node names and management IPs

Example: 2-Node SR Linux Lab

# List existing labs
python3 $MCP_CALL "python3 -u $CLAB_MCP_SCRIPT" listLabs '{}'

# Deploy
python3 $MCP_CALL "python3 -u $CLAB_MCP_SCRIPT" deployLab '{"topologyContent":{"name":"srlinux-demo","topology":{"nodes":{"srl1":{"kind":"nokia_srlinux","image":"ghcr.io/nokia/srlinux:latest","type":"ixrd2l"},"srl2":{"kind":"nokia_srlinux","image":"ghcr.io/nokia/srlinux:latest","type":"ixrd2l"}},"links":[{"endpoints":["srl1:e1-1","srl2:e1-1"]},{"endpoints":["srl1:e1-2","srl2:e1-2"]}]}}}'

# Inspect
python3 $MCP_CALL "python3 -u $CLAB_MCP_SCRIPT" inspectLab '{"labName":"srlinux-demo","details":true}'

# Execute command
python3 $MCP_CALL "python3 -u $CLAB_MCP_SCRIPT" execCommand '{"labName":"srlinux-demo","nodeName":"srl1","command":"show version"}'

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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 · 164 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 3957e64b240a

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clab-lab-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (652 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,880 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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