API & MCP reference
NetBox MCP (source of truth)
What it does: the official netboxlabs server queries NetBox — sites, devices, IPs, prefixes, VLANs, cables — READ-ONLY by default (deliberately hard to misuse; a write fork exists at your own risk).
Use it for: looking up INTENDED state (the DB) to reconcile against ACTUAL state (the live network) — i.e. drift detection, and IPAM lookups.
Notes: NetBox and Nautobot APIs have diverged — a NetBox MCP server will NOT drive a Nautobot instance (use nautobot-app-mcp for that).
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