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: the Posse follows whatever provider the Deputy is set to — Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible (ChatGPT/Groq/…), Google Gemini, or local Ollama. On the Anthropic cloud path the specialists run on the balanced model and the coordinator on the deepest, to keep cost sane; on every other backend all five agents share the one model you've configured. Either way 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? Switch the Deputy to Ollama and the WHOLE posse runs on your machine: no key, no cost, nothing leaves the box (slower, but fully private). See "Ollama — run the AI locally". Redaction of secret-shaped text applies before any cloud provider (Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini) and is skipped only on Ollama.

Import device output: click 'Import device output…' to load a captured log, 'show tech', or counters dump and have the posse analyze it (great with local Ollama — a device capture never leaves the box). Tick 'Analyze file only' to skip the live sweep when you're on-site on an unrelated network. The imported text is treated strictly as data to analyze, not as instructions, and secret-shaped values in it are redacted before any cloud send.

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.