Deep Reasoning, which is still in beta, lets the AI Assistant quickly analyze network security compliance, providing insights and recommendations as well as expediting responses to emerging threats, Ravichandran said.
Cisco previewed some capabilities of Deep Reasoning in conjunction with its Deep Network Model announcement in June 2025, saying it could help analyze network diagnostics and examine problem symptoms to provide insight that might be missed by human eyes. “Although generative AI is still a young technology that can make mistakes, expert-level IT professionals are well-equipped to evaluate the output for accuracy and detect hallucinations,” Cisco wrote in a blog last year.
“Deep Reasoning tracks signals across domains the way a veteran engineer does, sensing how a misconfigured policy in one corner sends ripples three hops away, watching for the cascade before it cascades. And it shows its work—the chain of reasoning is visible, so your team can see why it reached the conclusion it did. It senses the disturbance before the disturbance becomes a war room,” Cisco executives said in a preview of the Galaxy release.
Another feature helps users automatically generate agentic workflows. Agentic Workflows is a cross-domain, low-code/no-code automation tool built directly into the Meraki Dashboard, according to Ravichandran.
“Starting today, you can now describe what you want to the AI Assistant the way you would describe it to a colleague at a whiteboard. The system listens, drafts a plan, hands it back for your approval, and then builds the workflow for you, executable within the AI Assistant. Auditable, deterministic, reusable, and yours to refine. Use the words, build the thing. Intent becomes execution. Automatically,” Cisco stated.
“Customers can simply ask AI Assistant, ‘Can you generate workflow to expand the DHCP pool for my network?’ Agentic workflows are something we’ve had for a while, but now all of this is accessible through AI Assistant. And each time we keep adding more and more capability to the system, one of the things we’ve really heard from our customers is, ‘How can I create workflows for myself? How can I use it to contextualize what’s my environment?’ So this is something that people have been asking for and we’re excited to showcase,” Ravichandran said.
