gns3-packet-capture

gns3-packet-capture is a skill for Claude Code from automateyournetwork/netclaw. It costs 26 tokens per session (831 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for capturing network traffic on links in GNS3, a program for building virtual network labs. Captures can be saved as PCAP files for inspection in tools such as Wireshark.

In plain words
What is it for?
Troubleshooting connectivity, checking routing-protocol exchanges, examining application traffic, and validating network or security policies.
Why use it?
It provides evidence of what packets are actually crossing a link when a network or application problem is difficult to explain.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Troubleshooting connectivity, checking routing-protocol exchanges, examining application traffic, and validating network or security policies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/automateyournetwork/netclaw/gns3-packet-capture
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add automateyournetwork/netclaw --skill gns3-packet-capture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 831 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 $0.00026 $0.00831
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash e6b892455510, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gns3-packet-capture 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 9d 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/gns3-packet-capture/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GNS3 Packet Capture

Start and stop packet captures on links in GNS3 projects. Capture network traffic for analysis and troubleshooting.

When to Use

  • Troubleshooting network connectivity issues in a lab
  • Capturing traffic for analysis with Wireshark
  • Verifying routing protocol exchanges (OSPF, BGP, etc.)
  • Debugging application traffic
  • Learning about network protocols
  • Validating QoS or security policies

MCP Server

  • Command: python3 -u mcp-servers/gns3-mcp-server/gns3_mcp_server.py (stdio transport)
  • Requires: GNS3_URL, GNS3_USER, GNS3_PASSWORD environment variables

Available Tools

Tool Parameters What It Does
gns3_start_capture project_id, link_id, capture_file_name? Start packet capture on a link
gns3_stop_capture project_id, link_id Stop packet capture and finalize PCAP file
gns3_get_capture project_id, link_id Get capture file path and stream URL

Workflow Examples

Capture Traffic for Analysis

# First, identify the link to capture
"List all links in routing-test"

# Start capture on the link between router1 and router2
"Start capturing traffic on link abc123 in routing-test"

# Generate some traffic (ping, routing updates, etc.)
# ...

# Stop capture when done
"Stop the capture on link abc123 in routing-test"

# Get the PCAP file location
"Get capture info for link abc123 in routing-test"

Custom Capture Filename

# Start capture with custom filename
"Start capturing on link abc123 in routing-test as ospf_adjacency.pcap"

Live Streaming

# Get stream URL for live capture viewing
"Get capture info for link abc123 in routing-test"
# Returns stream_url for live PCAP streaming

Integration with Other Skills

  • gns3-link-management: List links to find the one to capture
  • gns3-node-operations: Ensure nodes are running before capturing
  • packet-analysis: Hand off PCAP data for deep inspection

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 9d ago First seen · 108 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A e6b892455510

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gns3-packet-capture is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (657 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 831 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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