Cisco IQ: Engineering APIs for the Agentic Era
Cisco, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Cisco has opened Cisco IQ with production REST APIs and an MCP server built to serve both human developers and autonomous AI agents.
Cisco says it officially opened Cisco IQ, announced at Partner Summit 2026, with a suite of production REST APIs and a Model Context Protocol server so its operational intelligence can work with existing systems and AI agents.
Partners can also integrate Cisco IQ capabilities into their own managed services through the API and MCP interfaces.
Since general availability in April 2026, more than 16,000 customers have deployed Cisco IQ.
The post explains that agents consume APIs probabilistically, so Cisco designed one canonical domain model and the same security policies to govern agents, engineering teams and integrations alike.