Cisco on-box automation tools are just tools already embedded in Cisco IOS or can be run through Cisco IOS CLI which helps you to automate many tasks.
Cisco on-box automation tools include:
Auto SmartPorts
AutoConf
Auto Security
AutoQoS
Smart Call Home
Tcl Shell
Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
Python Version 2.7
-Auto SmartPorts
-AutoConf
-Auto Security
-AutoQoS
-Smart Call Home
For above read chapter 7 “On-Box Automation and Operations Tools” in “Programming and Automating Cisco Networks” cisco press book
-Tcl Shell
For above read cisco press book ” TcL Scripting for Cisco IOS “
-Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
For above read my personal two parts article “Understanding Cisco EEM by examples”
-Python Version 2.7
Yes, you can run python command in Cisco IOS XE in interactive and non-interactive modes
for more info about Python on-box capability read:
Yasser Auda Lab 