VibeOps Forum

Where AI meets network ops, without the gatekeeping.

A free Slack community for engineers, architects, and curious minds who want to explore how AI agents, MCP, and agentic automation are reshaping infrastructure operations.

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What Is The VibeOps Forum?

The practitioner-led community that other forums wouldn’t let exist.

VibeOps started because every other networking community was aggressively anti-AI. Want to share an agent you built? Dismissed. Discuss MCP for network ops? Dogpiled. VibeOps was built to fix that – a space where real configs, real agents, and real topologies are the currency, and AI-forward thinking is the norm, not the exception.

AI agents
MCP
Network automation
VibeOps
Agentic ops
Prompt engineering
Vibe coding
pyATS · Ansible · NAPALM

“I was getting tired of being shut down every time I tried to talk about AI or MCP in network spaces. So I built my own.”

John Capobianco – Head of AI & DevRel, Itential // Founder, VibeOps Forum

What Gets Built in This Community

The VibeOps Lounge

The energy in the forum is the same energy we brought to the VibeOps Lounge where John built agents live, on real networks, in front of a packed room. Here are two of those sessions, showcasing the kind of work members are shipping and sharing inside the VibeOps Forum every day.

Live Demo of FlowAgents

Get in the Flow

John builds three working network agents live in front of the room:

Interface Health Test: Described in plain language, it uses pyATS to pull live interface state, run tests, and email a health report
Sync to NetBox: One prompt reads interfaces and IPs off the device and bulk-creates them in NetBox (55 synced live)
Sync to device: The same approach in reverse, NetBox as source of truth, pushing config back down to close the loop

Live Demo of NetClaw

Inside NetClaw: An Open-Source Network Agent

A walk through NetClaw, John’s open-source networking agent including 112 skills, 51 MCP integrations:

The architecture and the composable skills model
The agent “soul” file and the rules it can’t break
How he layered security on top – shared as a lab-first experiment, not a production drop-in

@netclaw is live in the forum, go try it yourself.

Get Started

Join the Movement

Free. Open to everyone. No question too basic, no background required.
Start with #FlowAI or dive into any channel that matches where you are.

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Common Questions

What people ask before they join

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VibeOps is the intersection of “vibe coding” and infrastructure operations — using natural language, AI agents, and MCP to drive network automation instead of writing scripts by hand. It’s a philosophy, a practice, and now a community. The VibeOps Forum is the Slack workspace where practitioners building in this space share their work, ask questions, and push the field forward.

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Not at all. VibeOps is explicitly built for enthusiasts, not just experts. If you’re a network engineer curious about what AI agents can actually do in production, you belong here. The culture is generosity over gatekeeping.

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard that lets AI models talk to external tools, data sources, and systems. For network ops, it’s what makes it possible for an AI agent to actually query a device, run a diff, or trigger a change — not just talk about it.

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No. VibeOps is practitioner-led, not vendor-driven. Members discuss tools across the ecosystem — Claude, GPT, Gemini, pyATS, Ansible, NAPALM, Nornir, and more. Itential has a dedicated #FlowAI channel where their team is available for direct, unfiltered conversation — but that’s a feature, not the point of the forum.

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John Capobianco — Head of AI & Developer Relations at Itential, author of Automate Your Network and the Cisco Press pyATS book — founded and runs the forum. He’s an active member, not just a figurehead.

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Yes. VibeOps is free to join and open to everyone. There’s no paywall, no premium tier, no catch.

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That’s exactly why now. VibeOps is being built before the textbooks catch up. The people in this community are the ones writing the playbook — joining early means you help define what VibeOps actually means in practice.