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DevNet AX: Agentic Experience for Cisco
Where developers build with agents, for agents
DevNet AX — Where developers and agents build together
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DevNet AX is the developer platform where Cisco meets agentic AI. Find resources here to build, secure, and operate AI agents on Cisco infrastructure, from MCP servers and agent-ready APIs to security labs and production-grade sample code. Start with a lab, browse the Code Exchange AI catalog, or connect your IDE in one click.
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Agent-ready DevNet
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DevNet Content Search MCP Server
Official Meraki and Catalyst Center API docs inside VS Code or Cursor, so your AI assistant works from current Cisco docs. One-click install.
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https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/CiscoDevNet/devnet-content-search-mcp/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
DevNet Content Search MCP Server
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Learning Labs, now with the LLM built in
Start a lab and the model is already there. AI Defense, MCP Security, A2A Protocol Security, and Skill Security labs are live.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/bringing-ai-to-devnet-learning-labs?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Learning Labs with LLM
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Shift.Forward() — October 27, 2026
A free, half-day virtual event by Outshift and Cisco DevNet covering production patterns for multi-agent AI, quantum networking, and emerging infrastructure.
Join
https://outshift.cisco.com/events/shift-forward?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Agentic AI
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Build agentic networking experiences with Meraki and Catalyst Center MCP servers
Use Cisco’s beta Meraki and Catalyst Center MCP servers to bring supported, read-only network data into the agents and apps you build.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/build-agentic-networking-experiences-with-meraki-and-catalyst-center-mcp-servers?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Meraki and Catalyst Center MCP servers
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Coding the Network: From Network as Code Fundamentals to AIOps | Ep. 101
This session explores the evolution of modern network operations, starting from the core principles of Network as Code and moving toward AI-driven network operations.
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https://youtube.com/live/bz8rHu-2cuM?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Coding the Network Ep 101
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MCP Servers and AI Agents for Networking and Security at Cisco Code Exchange
In this video, we show off the new Code Exchange AI repo catalog, where you can find MCP servers and AI Agents related to Cisco technologies.
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MCP Servers at Code Exchange
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Responsible AI
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Prioritizing Security, Privacy, and Trust in the AI Era
How Cisco embeds responsible AI governance — from data privacy and bias mitigation to threat detection — across its products and operations.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/our-corporate-purpose/prioritizing-security-privacy-and-trust-in-the-ai-era-fy25-purpose-report?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
FY25 Purpose Report
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Responsible AI Principles
Cisco Principles for Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
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https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/doing_business/trust-center/docs/cisco-responsible-artificial-intelligence-principles.pdf?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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The Cisco Responsible AI Framework
Security by Design / Human Rights by Design / Privacy by Design for personal data and consequential
decisions.
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https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/doing_business/trust-center/docs/cisco-responsible-artificial-intelligence-framework.pdf?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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What's New in AI
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AGNTCY's Internet of Agents is now on GitHub
The AGNTCY is an open source collective building the infrastructure for the Internet of Agents: an open, interoperable internet for agent-to-agent collaboration.
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Learning Lab Cisco AI Defense
Hands-on experience with Cisco AI Defense.
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Cisco AI Model for Security FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-8B
In this video Oleksii Borysenko review, test and validate Cisco AI Model for Security FoundationAI-SecurityLLM-base-8B
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What’s New in MCP : Elicitation, Structured Content, and OAuth Enhancements
What’s New in MCP 2025-06-18: Human-in-the-Loop, OAuth, Structured Content, and Evolving API Paradigms.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/whats-new-in-mcp-elicitation-structured-content-and-oauth-enhancements?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Announcing Cisco AI Canvas. Revolutionizing IT with AgenticOps
AI Canvas is Cisco's first Generative UI for cross-domain IT-a shared, intelligent workspace that brings real-time telemetry, AI insights, and team collaboration into one view.
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AI Defense Policies: Protecting Your Agents from Prompt Injection & Privacy Risks
Learn to create effective guardrails, see examples of blocked attacks, and explore the AI Defense dashboard for monitoring security events.
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Cisco Investments is excited to support Anthropic
Congratulations to Anthropic on successfully closing their Series E!
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cisco_anthropic-raises-series-e-at-615b-post-money-activity-7302437757765701632-7vGd?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NIM
In this stream, the discussion will focus on NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NIM inference microservices.
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Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation to make domain-specific agents
This video discussed Retrieval-Augmented Generation and how to create domain-specific LLM agents.
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Transforming DevOps with AI and ML: Innovations and Strategies
Explore the transformative impact of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) with DevOps.
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Cisco Launches $1B Global AI Investment Fund
Cisco is launching a $1B global investment fund to expand and develop secure, reliable and trustworthy AI solutions
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https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2024/m06/cisco-launches-1b-global-ai-investment-fund.html?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Top Takeaways from the Cisco Live 2024 DevNet Zone: AI, Programmability, and More
See how Cisco DevNet provides the resources and community automation engineers need to leveraging AI when building smarter, more efficient solutions.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/top-developer-takeaways-from-cisco-live-2024-ai-programmability-and-more?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Which Programming Language to Choose for AI?
Python? C++? Java? JavaScript? R? Julia?... As is usually the case, it depends on your context, methods, and use-case which programming language is right for your AI project.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/which-programming-language-to-choose-for-ai-in-2024?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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How to Get Started Using LLMs in IT and Network Engineering
LLMs can be thought of as the engine of Generative AI. See four use cases for using LLMs in applications specific to IT and network engineering.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/how-to-get-started-using-llms-in-it-and-network-engineering?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Experience Data Center Efficiency with Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS)
ALearn how Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) helps you stand at the forefront of data center energy-saving with attributes and design innovations.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/experience-data-center-efficiency-with-ciscos-unified-computing-system-ucs?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Create your own API & Code Assistant
Understanding RAG with Cisco Catalyst Center.
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Tools & repos
MCP servers, agent frameworks, and sample code for Cisco platforms. Start from a working repo, connect it to your agent, and ship. Every listing in the Code Exchange AI catalog is curated and security-scanned.
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Code Exchange AI catalog
MCP servers and AI agents for Cisco technologies, both Cisco-maintained and community.
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https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/search/#type=repo&topic=ai&utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Learning lab
Build Your Own AI Agent
Build an AI agent for network and security operations with pi and Cisco MCP servers.
Learn
https://developer.cisco.com/learning/labs/building-ai-agents-lab/introduction-to-lab/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Sample Code
SP Oncall: Multi-Agent Network Investigation
A multi-agent system that automates diagnostics and troubleshooting for service provider networks.
See repo
https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/jillesca/sp_oncall/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Sample Code
Cisco Secure Access MCP Server
Community MCP server for Cisco Secure Access.
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https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/CiscoDevNet/secure-access-mcp-community/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Month of Smart Connections
Multi-vendor automation, ending with a LibreChat agent built on pyATS, NetBox, and GitHub MCP servers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqH1UNsICmw&utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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MCP for DevOps: AI and MCP in Dev/Net/SecOps
Shannon McFarland at Cisco Live on how MCP connects agents to tools across Dev, Net, and SecOps.
Watch on demand
https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?search=DEVNET-3047#/session/1770243049903001vEk4?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Secure AI
Agents add new attack surfaces: tools, skills, MCP servers, and generated code. These DevNet labs, which come with the LLM built in, and open-source tools help you test and protect them before they reach production.
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Learning lab
Introduction to Cisco AI Defense
Hands-on guardrails and monitoring for AI applications.
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https://developer.cisco.com/learning/modules/ai-security/AIDefense/introduction-to-cisco-ai-defense/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Learning lab
A2A Protocol Security
Use Cisco A2A Scanner to detect risks in multi-agent systems. The LLM is included in the lab.
Learn
https://developer.cisco.com/learning/modules/ai-security/A2AScanner/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Learning lab
Introduction to Skill Scanner
Find unsafe instructions, risky tool use, and policy violations in agent skills.
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https://developer.cisco.com/learning/modules/ai-security/skill-scanner/introduction-to-skill-scanner/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Cisco AI Defense Explorer Edition
Red-team an OpenAI-compatible target and review the findings. Links to the lab.
Learn
https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/ai-defense-explorer?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
Learning lab
Why OpenClaw Needs DefenseClaw
Protect OpenClaw agents from malicious skills, MCP tools, prompt injection, and privacy risks.
Learn
https://developer.cisco.com/learning/modules/ai-security/defenseclaw/why-openclaw-needs-defenseclaw/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Cisco AI Model for Security: Foundation-sec-8B, tested
Oleksii Borysenko reviews, tests, and validates Cisco's security LLM.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DshZ36HP4A0&utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Agent-ready DevNet
DevNet AX is working toward making developer.cisco.com as useful for AI agents as it is for people. The goal: let agents discover, authenticate, and use Cisco docs, APIs, and labs directly. That way, your coding assistant gets accurate Cisco context on the first try. Stay tuned for more updates!
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DevNet Content Search MCP Server
Semantic search over Cisco API docs, inside your IDE.
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https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/CiscoDevNet/devnet-content-search-mcp/?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Beyond the Protocol: MCP Description
API engineering practices (versioning, linting, changelogs) applied to MCP servers.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/beyond-the-protocol?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Cisco API Documentation Is Adapted for GenAI
How OpenAPI documents in a prompt make model output more accurate.
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https://blogs.cisco.com/developer/cisco-api-documentations-is-now-adapted-for-gen-ai-technologies?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website
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Event
Shift.Forward() — Free Virtual Developer Event
A half-day virtual event by Outshift and Cisco DevNet on October 27, 2026. Sessions cover production patterns for multi-agent AI, quantum networking, and emerging infrastructure — with speakers from Cisco, NVIDIA, Red Hat, and more.
Join
https://outshift.cisco.com/events/shift-forward?utm_campaign=devnet_ai_hub_website&utm_channel=website