Unicon Connection Library

Unicon is a Python package that provides a unified connection experience to network devices via typical command-line management interfaces (CLI). It serves as the standard CLI connection implementation within the Cisco pyATS framework, offering direct and proxied connections, expect-like programming, and multi-vendor support through an agnostic API. Initially developed internally by Cisco, it was released publicly in late 2017 through Cisco DevNet. [1, 2, 12] The current version is 26.3, released on April 2, 2026, and the project maintains an active release cadence, often aligned with the broader pyATS/Genie framework releases. [2, 23]