VibeOps Lounge @ Cisco Live US 2026 On-Demand

Agentic Ops, Live from the VibeOps Lounge

At Cisco Live US 2026, the Itential VibeOps Lounge was where agentic operations stopped being a slide and started running on real infrastructure. Live, unscripted, with agents built in front of the room.

Couldn’t make it to Vegas? We recorded the top sessions, all hosted by John Capobianco, Head of AI & Developer Relations at Itential.

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FlowAI: Building Infrastructure Agents

Building FlowAgents with Itential’s FlowAI

The day after FlowAI hit GA, John built three working FlowAgents in front of a live crowd – one in the FlowAgent Builder GUI, and two from Claude Code using Itential’s Builder Skills and spec-driven development. Along the way he walks the agentic operations stack, the ReAct agent model where agents reason and execute, and the autonomy journey from human in the loop to human in the lead, plus the SSO, RBAC, secrets management, and guardrails that actually get agents to production.

“From a simple prompt in Claude Code to a working agent to actually filling in NetBox.”

— John Capobianco

What FlowAgents Were Built:

Interface Health Test Agent: Built by natural language in FlowAgent builder, it uses pyATS to pull live interface state, generate and run tests, and email a health report (50 passed, 7 failed on the day).
Sync to NetBox Agent: Generated from one prompt with Itential’s Builder Skills and spec-driven development, it reads interfaces and IPs off the device with pyATS and bulk-creates them in NetBox (55 synced live).
Sync from NetBox Agent: The same skills pointed in reverse, with NetBox as the source of truth, configuring an interface downstream on the device to close the loop.

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Getting Started with MCP

Demystifying Model Context Protocol: How to Use & Build MCP Servers

A hands-on walk-through of MCP, the protocol that gives models real context. John frames MCP as the USB-C of agent tooling, then builds and runs real servers live, from a 30-line example up to a full pyATS server, and wires them into agents and into Copilot in VS Code.

“I like to think of MCP as the USB-C of protocols.”

— John Capobianco

What you’ll see:

What MCP actually is, said backwards: a protocol that provides context to the model
Building a FastMCP server from scratch, from a subnet calculator to pyATS, then discovering and calling its tools from an agent and from VS Code
Why tight, scoped agents beat one agent that tries to do everything, and the practical ceiling on tools per agent.

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Getting Started with SDD

Spec-Driven Development: The Spec Is the New Source of Truth

SDD inverts the old model: instead of the spec serving the code, the code serves the spec. John makes the case that network engineers are already natural SDD practitioners, then walks the GitHub Spec Kit end to end and shows Itential’s own implementation through the Builder Skills on the Anthropic Marketplace.

“This is not called SDD in our world. We call it doing your job.”

— John Capobianco

What you’ll see:

Why network engineers are already natural SDD practitioners – you front-load intent every change window: requirements, current state, post-change behavior, sign-off, rollback.
The GitHub Spec Kit’s 8-step workflow: constitution, specify, plan, tasks, implement.
How Itential’s Builder Skills – 1 plugin, 13 skills, 3 delivery agents – collapse work that used to take days, weeks, or months into 30 to 45 minutes.

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Getting Started with Netclaw

NetClaw: Agentic Networking Is Here

A look at John’s open-source project NetClaw, an OpenClaw fork rebuilt for enterprise networking, with 112 skills and 51 MCP integrations. He covers the architecture, the composable skills model, the agent “soul” file and its non-negotiable rules, and how he layered security on top. Framed honestly as an experimental, lab-first project rather than a production drop-in.

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What you’ll see:

Why network engineers are already natural SDD practitioners – you front-load intent every change window: requirements, current state, post-change behavior, sign-off, rollback.
The GitHub Spec Kit’s 8-step workflow: constitution, specify, plan, tasks, implement.
How Itential’s Builder Skills – 1 plugin, 13 skills, 3 delivery agents – collapse work that used to take days, weeks, or months into 30 to 45 minutes.

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The Itential Platform

The Platform Built for Agentic Infrastructure Operations

Build Agents That Know Your Network

Stop writing scripts for every scenario. FlowAI agents understand your infrastructure – devices, domains, dependencies – and act on intent. You define the outcome. The agent finds the path.

Every Change Governed & Auditable

AI reasoning and deterministic execution stay separate by design. Every agent-driven action flows through Itential’s orchestration engine with approval gates, rollback logic, and a full audit trail – before anything touches your network.

Works With Your Whole Stack

1,000+ pre-built integrations. Open API and MCP framework. Itential connects to everything already in your environment – Cisco, AWS, ServiceNow, and whatever else you’ve inherited – without replacing a single tool.

Role-Based Agents, Built for Enterprise

Define who builds agents, what systems they can touch, and when human approval is required. Governance is native to every workflow and every action, not a policy layer bolted on after the fact.

Why Itential

No lock-in, no limits, no compromise. Because your network doesn’t run on one vendor.

Any Vendor

1,000+ pre-built integrations and an open API and MCP framework mean Itential works with every vendor in your stack – from the legacy gear you can’t touch to the cloud platforms you’re building toward.

Any AI Model, MCP, or Agent

OpenAI, Anthropic, custom models, MCP servers – Itential doesn’t pick your AI for you. Bring whatever model or agent framework your team has chosen – or build your own. Itential orchestrates the execution layer safely, at enterprise scale.

Any Automation Tool

You’ve already invested in automation with Ansible, Python, Terraform and custom-built scripts. Itential makes that investment go further – connecting your existing tools into end-to-end workflows without rewriting a single playbook.

100% Enterprise-Grade Governance

Role-based access, approval flows, audit trails, and compliance enforcement aren’t add-ons – they’re native to the platform. Every agent, workflow, or human action is logged, governed, and traceable from intent to execution.