Posse (multi-agent network sweep)

What it does: sends a POSSE of specialist agents to sweep your whole local network as a team. Five specialists each own a zone — reachability & path, naming & services, layer-2 & rogue, device health, and security & exposure — and each runs the read-only tools to find problems in its area. A coordinator agent then merges their findings into one prioritized report with a recommended fix for each issue. It's the multi-agent version of the Deputy.

Setup: uses the same Anthropic API key as the Deputy (store it in the Vault once). Specialists run on the balanced model and the coordinator on the deepest, to keep cost sane — but a posse of five agents is more token spend than a single chat, so it's a 'run it when you want a full sweep' feature, not something to spam.

Local instead of cloud? The Posse follows whatever provider the Deputy is set to — switch it to Ollama and the WHOLE posse runs on your machine: no key, no cost, nothing leaves the box. The specialist/coordinator model split above only applies to the cloud path; on Ollama every agent shares your one local model, so it's slower but fully private. See "Ollama — run the AI locally".

Safe to run: yes — every agent is READ-ONLY, exactly like the Deputy. They diagnose and RECOMMEND; they never change a device. Each finding comes with the steps you'd run yourself (with a verify-first note for anything disruptive). You can copy the report or save it straight to Incidents.

Reading results: the coordinator report leads with an overall verdict, then severity-ranked issues (each with the evidence and a fix), then what checked out healthy. Expand any zone to watch that specialist work and see its findings.