What is pyats-network?

A pyATS skill for automating commands and tests on network devices, especially Cisco IOS-XE and NX-OS. It can inspect devices, run show commands, test connectivity, collect information, and apply configuration.

Use it to inventory devices, check router or switch state, run pings, collect configuration and logs, execute tests, and make configuration changes.

It lets an agent perform common network operations through a defined testbed instead of relying on ad hoc manual sessions.

pyats-network — Skill for Claude Code by automateyournetwork

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 pyats-network

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,585 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00072	$0.02585
Opus 5	$0.00036	$0.01293
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.00517
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00259

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5f44f0091899, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pyats-network scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Banned imports:** os, sys, subprocess, shutil, socket, pathlib, pickle, yaml, requests, urllib, http, ssl

workspace/skills/pyats-network/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pyATS Network Device Tool

Server & Testbed

Server script: $PYATS_MCP_SCRIPT
Testbed: $PYATS_TESTBED_PATH
Environment variable: PYATS_TESTBED_PATH=$PYATS_TESTBED_PATH

Available Devices

R1 (devnetsandboxiosxec8k.cisco.com) — Cisco IOS-XE, C8000v/CSR1kv

How to Call Tools

Use the $MCP_CALL protocol handler to invoke MCP tools:

PYATS_TESTBED_PATH=$PYATS_TESTBED_PATH python3 $MCP_CALL "${PYATS_PYTHON:-python3} -u $PYATS_MCP_SCRIPT" TOOL_NAME 'ARGS_JSON'

All 8 Available Tools

1. `pyats_list_devices`

List all devices in the testbed with their properties: name, alias, type, OS, platform, connection types, credentials summary.

PYATS_TESTBED_PATH=$PYATS_TESTBED_PATH python3 $MCP_CALL "${PYATS_PYTHON:-python3} -u $PYATS_MCP_SCRIPT" pyats_list_devices '{}'

Use when: Starting any session — always list devices first to confirm connectivity and inventory.

2. `pyats_run_show_command`

Execute any show command with automatic Genie structured parsing. Returns parsed JSON when a Genie parser exists, raw text otherwise.

device_name (string): Target device from testbed
command (string): Show command — must start with "show"

PYATS_TESTBED_PATH=$PYATS_TESTBED_PATH python3 $MCP_CALL "${PYATS_PYTHON:-python3} -u $PYATS_MCP_SCRIPT" pyats_run_show_command '{"device_name":"R1","command":"show ip interface brief"}'

Validation rules:

Must start with "show"
No pipes (|), redirects (>), or shell characters
Cannot include: copy, delete, erase, reload, write, configure keywords
Do NOT use for show running-config or show logging — use the dedicated tools

Commands with Genie parsers (structured JSON output) on IOS-XE:

Routing:

show ip route / show ip route vrf <name>
show ip protocols
show ip bgp / show ip bgp summary / show ip bgp neighbors
show ip ospf / show ip ospf neighbor / show ip ospf interface / show ip ospf database
show ip eigrp neighbors / show ip eigrp topology
show isis neighbors / show isis database
show ip static route

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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.

9d ago First seen · 262 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 5f44f0091899

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pyats-network is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (657 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,585 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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