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

Watch. Learn. Get Inspired.

Live @ The VibeOps Lounge

Where the vibes are real & so are the agents.

The VibeOps Lounge is a recurring video series where John sits down with the people actually building at the intersection of AI, MCP, and network ops – interviews, AMAs, unscripted takes, and live demos. No slides. No pitch. Just builders getting into it and figuring this stuff out together. Powered by the VibeOps Forum, the free Slack community where the conversation happens every day.

Episode 1 // GCF

GCF & Token-Efficient Data for AI Agents

Guest: Dayna Blackwell, creator of Graph Compact Form

What if you could cut 50–92% of your tokens versus JSON and get 100% comprehension on every frontier model? Dayna joins John to break it down. They cover:

Why JSON quietly wrecks your token budget at scale
The BPE tokenization problem hiding underneath it
How to wrap any MCP server with GCF in zero lines of code

Episode 2 // Transit AI

An AI Powered SSH Client That Can’t Break Your Network

Guest: Knox Hutchinson, Founder of Transit AI Software Inc

What if your AI assistant physically couldn’t run a config change or see your passwords? Knox joins John to demo Transit AI live. They cover:

Why there’s no git restore for the network, and what that does to engineers
Troubleshooting a broken DMVPN across 8 routers from a sloppy 2:30 a.m. prompt
How the Policy Gate blocks bad commands and redacts secrets in the app, not the prompt

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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.