Agentic NetOps Gets Bold — an AI That Joins the BGP Control Plane
A solo open source project called NetClaw claims its AI agent can join a network as a live BGP, OSPF, and GRE peer, reopening the debate over how much control plane trust an agent should get. Also today: Cloudflare's leaderless consensus experiment versus Telstra's hidden time sync failure, and two engineers reaching opposite verdicts on AI written work in the same week.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Thursday, July ninth. There's a story in today's show about an AI agent that doesn't just read your network, it joins it, live, as an actual routing protocol speaker, and we need to talk about whether that's brilliant or terrifying.
I've been turning this one over since last night and I still don't have a clean answer. Let's get into it.
So the project is called NetClaw. One maintainer, a guy named John Capobianco who's been a known name in the network automation community for years, wired a Claude-based agent into full network operations.
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