rhuanssauro/cisco-mcp-server

Cisco MCP Server with Scrapli - Direct IOS-XE/XR/NX-OS device access via MCP tools for AI-powered network automation

What's novel

Cisco MCP Server with Scrapli - Direct IOS-XE/XR/NX-OS device access via MCP tools for AI-powered network automation

Code Analysis

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An MCP server that provides secure, validated SSH access to Cisco IOS-XE/IOS-XR/NX-OS devices for LLMs to execute show commands, apply configurations, and run diagnostics.

Strengths

Excellent safety-first design with multi-layer validation blocking dangerous operations; comprehensive test coverage including edge cases like auth failures, timeouts, and unknown devices; clean async pattern with proper resource cleanup.

Weaknesses

Critical validation logic depends on external git package (mcp_network_common); main.py is a trivial stub not used in production; credential handling relies on OS-level env var security without code-level encryption.

Score Breakdown

Innovation

5 (25%)

Craft

64 (35%)

Traction

6 (15%)

Scope

53 (25%)

Signal breakdown

Innovation

Not Fork+1

Code Novelty+1

Concept Novelty+1

Craft

Ci+5

Tests+8

Polish+0

Releases+0

Has License+5

Code Quality+25

Readme Quality+15

Recent Activity+7

Structure Quality+5

Commit Consistency+2

Has Dependency Mgmt+5

Traction

Forks+0

Stars+6

Hn Points+0

Watchers+0

Early Traction+0

Devto Reactions+0

Community Contribs+2

Scope

Commits+5

Languages+3

Subsystems+5

Bloat Penalty+0

Completeness+7

Contributors+6

Authored Files+8

Readme Code Match+3

Architecture Depth+5

Implementation Depth+8

Evidence

Commits

Contributors

Files

Active weeks

TestsCI/CDREADMELicenseContributing

Repository

Language

Python

Stars

Forks

License

MIT