Silas Silas

Your Gray Beard for Network & Security

Meet Silas — an AI agent with decades of network and security wisdom built in. Like having a veteran SME at your side, ready to help engineers, architects, and operators solve their toughest infrastructure challenges.

Declare your network. Silas reconciles it. GitOps-style plan, policy, and apply for F5, AVI — and the rest of your stack, next.

Silas

Wisdom Meets Modern Infrastructure

Deep Platform Knowledge

F5, AVI, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Citrix, Zscaler, VeloCloud, Versa, and more — expertise distilled into an always-available advisor.

Conversational Guidance

A standalone desktop and CLI app with natural language at its core. Integrates multiple LLMs for the most accurate, efficient answers.

Action, Not Just Advice

Silas doesn't just tell you what to do — with your approval, he can execute changes directly on your infrastructure.

Battle-Tested Patterns

Real-world engagement intelligence built into model tuning. Design and config guidance that won't break production — lessons other AIs never learned through scar tissue.

Recently Shipped

Spring 2026

Six weeks of dense delivery — Intent Module iteration 6, the F5 Load Balancer Operations dashboard, and three new observability integrations bundled into Desktop.

Core Platform

Silas Intent — Iteration 6

Vendor-agnostic declarative substrate. Stacks, Plans, Policies, State, Canary — 111 tests green, F5 provider first, Cisco / Juniper / Palo Alto providers in flight.

Observability

Splunk + Grafana + ServiceNow MCPs

51 new tools. Query logs, metrics, and incidents from the same conversation. Bundled into Desktop — no separate install.

F5 Operations

Load Balancer Ops Dashboard

Native desktop panel for VIP, pool, and certificate management. Zero-click auth from corporate credentials, live F5 data through the BIG-IP sidecar.

Migration

AVI → F5 Migration Suite

Snapshot, activate, deactivate, rollback, and verify as MCP tools. Policy + DataScript → iRule converter. Per-tenant rollback templates for safe cutover.

Observability

Real-Time Trace Streaming

Every tool call, SSH command, and REST request streams over NATS — color-coded in CLI, live in Desktop. Password and secret redaction built in.

Governance

Signed Prompt Governance

Ed25519-signed prompts with immutability guards, hot-swap reload, and validated promotion pipeline. Compliance-ready audit of who authored what.

Built Different

Silas isn't a chatbot wrapped around an API. It's a purpose-built system where multiple AI agents collaborate, each specialized for different aspects of network and security infrastructure.

Agent Architecture

A Coordinator decomposes complex tasks into parallel workstreams routed to specialized sub-agents — Python, Rust, Infra, and Desktop experts that work autonomously and report back.

DAG Scheduling • A2A Protocol • Model Escalation

MCP Sub-Agents

A parent MCP server spawns child servers for each platform — F5 BIG-IP, AVI, Splunk (28 tools), Grafana / Prometheus (14 tools), ServiceNow (9 tools), Remote Ops, and more. Tools auto-discovered, dynamically proxied, with health checks and auto-reconnect.

Auto-Proxy • Health Checks • 70+ Tools Shipped

Rust-Powered Core

Critical paths in Rust for memory safety and speed. Async SSH with connection pooling means sub-second responses even when managing hundreds of devices.

Async I/O • Connection Pooling • Zero-Copy

Governance Built In

Ed25519-signed prompts with immutability guards. Approval queues for sensitive ops. Data sanitization, encrypted credentials via 1Password vault resolution, NATS NKey device auth, and full audit trails.

Signed Prompts • Approval Queues • Audit Trail

Getting Started

1

Register

Sign up with your company email. We'll send you a license key and download link.

2

Install

Run the installer on your workstation. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

3

Connect

Add your F5, AVI, or other devices. Silas learns your environment.

4

Ask Away

Desktop app, CLI, or Slack. Silas is ready for your toughest questions.

Meet Your New Gray Beard

14-day trial. No credit card. Just decades of wisdom at your fingertips.