AI-native MCP server to design and manage Cisco network diagrams (L1/L2/L3, PPT/SVG) from LLMs.
If you already use Network Sketcher (Local MCP), the network sketcher (local mcp) mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. AI-native MCP server to design and manage Cisco network diagrams (L1/L2/L3, PPT/SVG) from LLMs.
For MCP users, Network Sketcher Local MCP lets LLM clients such as Cursor and Claude Code design Cisco-style networks directly through Model Context Protocol tool calls. It runs locally over stdio, keeps master files on your machine, and produces SVG / PowerPoint diagrams plus HTML device tables.
Network Sketcher Local MCP is the third edition of Network Sketcher. It wraps network-sketcher_online/ns_engine/ as a library and exposes the Network Sketcher CLI through the Model Context Protocol so that LLM clients can drive network design via Tool calls.
The server ships on PyPI as tkinterdnd2, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by cisco-open; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Network Sketcher (Local MCP)'s own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
{
"mcpServers": {
"network-sketcher": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["tkinterdnd2"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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