THE CCIE DESK

Agentic AI Engineering

The companion code

The aae agent package, the NetOps capstone agent, an MCP server example and the full offline test suite. Appendix H of the book indexes every file.

Download the code (ZIP)See the books

Set it up

Four commands

unzip agentic-ai-engineering-code.zip && cd code
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m pytest -q        # 22 passed, offline, no API key needed

Needs Python 3.11 or later on macOS, Linux or Windows (WSL). To run the agents against a real model, set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY first. The book's Introduction explains each step.

In the ZIP

What you get

The aae package

The agent loop, tools, policies and guard rails, memory, retrieval, durable runs, tracing and evals, as small readable Python modules.

The capstone

A complete NetOps agent and its live eval suite, built chapter by chapter in the book.

MCP server and tests

An example MCP server (stdio or HTTP) and tests that run offline with a scripted model, so you can change the code safely.

The books

Agentic AI from The CCIE Desk

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Network Automation

Agentic AI for Network Engineers

Build AI agents that troubleshoot, audit and automate Cisco, Juniper and Arista networks, safely: working Python code, a network simulator and a free Containerlab lab.

  • Agents that find the fault and quote the evidence
  • Changes with approval, rollback and post-checks
  • A free network simulator and Containerlab lab

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AI at Work

Agentic AI Engineering

Design, build, evaluate and secure production AI agents with Python, MCP, A2A and multi-agent systems, with tested code for every chapter.

  • From the agent loop to multi-agent systems
  • Tested Python code and an MCP server
  • Evals, guard rails and security for production

Kindle $9.99Paperback $34.99

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