Building With Cisco: Network ChatOps in n8n

Learn how to run AI agents on network infrastructure safely with n8n, using guardrails, human-in-the-loop approvals and the pyATS MCP server. Pancho Sandoval, Developer Advocate at Cisco DevNet, demos two free n8n workflows: Slack ChatOps for reading and changing network devices, and automated network audit reports with GitHub issues and Slack alerts. WHAT WE BUILT 1. Slack ChatOps with guardrails and human in the loop: you mention a Slack bot, and a planning agent decides if the request is read-only or a config change. ▸ Read-only requests go to an agent whose MCP Client Tool can only use r