GNS3 Packet Capture provides tools to control packet captures within GNS3 lab projects. It exposes operations to start and stop captures on specific links, finalize and retrieve PCAP files stored on the GNS3 server, and return live stream URLs when supported. This enables automated troubleshooting, protocol verification, and evidence capture for networking exercises.
Use this skill when debugging connectivity or protocol issues in a GNS3 topology, when collecting traffic for Wireshark analysis, or when automating network test scenarios that require packet records. It’s appropriate for network engineers, students, and automated test suites interacting with GNS3.
Suited for agent runtimes that can call Python MCP servers or control network lab infrastructure (Codex CLI, Claude Code, Cursor).
GNS3 Packet Capture wraps an external MCP server to start/stop packet captures on GNS3 network simulation links and retrieve PCAP files or live stream URLs. No bundled scripts — it's a pure SKILL.md describing how to invoke an external Python MCP server. The documentation is well-structured with workflow examples, error handling table, and integration notes, but depends entirely on a separately hosted MCP server that isn't included or validated.
Clean skill, no security concerns. Pure documentation wrapper around an external MCP server. Would benefit from including the MCP server script or at least version-pinning the dependency.
