generated: '2026-08-19'
method: searched
source: >-
  Registry metadata endpoints queried 2026-08-19: galaxy.ansible.com/api/v3 (cisco.aci),
  registry.terraform.io/v1/providers (CiscoDevNet/aci), pypi.org/pypi/acitoolkit/json,
  api.github.com/repos (CiscoDevNet/*). PyPI was also queried for acicobra and pyaci — both 404.
note: >-
  Cisco does not ship conventional REST client SDKs for ACI in the npm / Maven / NuGet / crates.io sense.
  The first-party automation surface is infrastructure-as-code: an Ansible collection and a Terraform
  provider, both maintained in the CiscoDevNet GitHub org, plus the Cobra Python SDK which Cisco distributes
  from the APIC controller itself rather than from a public registry. npm was probed for cisco-aci,
  aci-client and node-aci — all 404.
package_count: 5
official_count: 4
packages:
- name: cisco.aci
  language: ansible
  registry: ansible-galaxy
  url: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/cisco/aci/
  repository: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-aci
  official: true
  version: 2.13.0
  published: '2025-12-09'
  downloads: 3382048
  note: >-
    The certified Ansible collection for ACI. Namespace `cisco`, source repo in the CiscoDevNet org, so
    first-party. Galaxy reports 3.38M downloads and the collection tracks APIC releases.
- name: CiscoDevNet/aci
  language: terraform
  registry: terraform-registry
  url: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/CiscoDevNet/aci/latest
  repository: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/terraform-provider-aci
  official: true
  version: 2.20.0
  published: '2026-06-23'
  note: >-
    First-party Terraform provider for ACI, published under the CiscoDevNet registry namespace. The most
    actively released ACI client artifact — v2.20.0 shipped 2026-06-23.
- name: acitoolkit
  language: python
  registry: pypi
  url: https://pypi.org/project/acitoolkit/
  repository: https://github.com/datacenter/acitoolkit
  official: true
  version: '0.4'
  published: '2017-05-05'
  note: >-
    PyPI metadata lists the author as "Cisco Systems, Inc." and the home page as
    datacenter.github.io/acitoolkit, so it is first-party. DECAY SIGNAL: the last PyPI release is 0.4 from
    2017-05-05 — more than nine years behind the APIC releases it wraps (6.1(6) shipped 2026-08-14).
- name: acicobra
  language: python
  registry: apic-hosted
  url: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/all/apic-rest-api-configuration-guide/cisco-apic-rest-api-configuration-guide-42x-and-later.html
  official: true
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    The Cisco APIC Python SDK ("Cobra"), documented in the APIC REST API Configuration Guide as supporting
    Python 2.7+ and 3.6+. Cisco distributes it as .egg/.whl files downloaded from the customer's own APIC
    controller, not from a public registry — pypi.org/pypi/acicobra/json returned 404 on 2026-08-19, as did
    pypi.org/pypi/pyaci/json. There is therefore no registry metadata endpoint to read a version or release
    date from, and a consumer cannot tell which SDK version their controller will hand them. Recorded as
    checked-and-absent, not unchecked.
- name: mcp_server_cisco_aci_community
  language: python
  registry: github
  url: https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/mcp_server_cisco_aci_community
  official: false
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    The ACI MCP server. Published in the CiscoDevNet org but its own README states "This is a community
    based project and is not officially supported by any Cisco Business or Technical entity", so
    official:false. Distributed by `git clone` only — no PyPI package, and the GitHub releases API returns
    zero releases, so there is no version to record. Repo created 2026-05-07, last push 2026-07-08.
absent:
- registry: npm
  probed:
  - cisco-aci
  - aci-client
  - node-aci
  result: 404 — no first-party JavaScript client library published.
- registry: pypi
  probed:
  - acicobra
  - pyaci
  result: 404 — the Cobra SDK is not on PyPI.