Practical lessons on running AI agents and MCP servers against real networks -- avoiding hallucinations, rate limits, tool sprawl, and other failure modes that bite once you move past the demo.
A practical guide to local and remote MCP servers in Claude Desktop -- what they are, how they differ, and how to build and connect your first local MCP server from scratch.
A template-driven MCP server that provisions complete Meraki branch networks — VLANs, SSIDs, firewall rules, VPN — through natural language, with template lifecycle management, drift detection, and a built-in dashboard for fleet visibility.
A step-by-step guide to building 4 progressively complex AI agents that analyze, verify, and remediate Meraki network alerts — with human-in-the-loop approval via Webex.