Agentic Data Plane Documentation

This repository hosts the documentation content for Redpanda Agentic Data Plane.

About Agentic Data Plane

Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) provides enterprise-grade infrastructure for building, deploying, and governing AI agents at scale. Key capabilities include:

• Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Tool integration for connecting agents to business systems

• AI Gateway - Centralized routing and governance for multi-agent systems

• Declarative Agents - Build production-ready agents with YAML configuration

• Observability & Transcripts - Compliance-grade audit trails and monitoring

• Trust & Governance - Guardrails, token budgets, and kill switches

Content Types

This documentation includes content for both deployment models:

• Cloud - Managed ADP on Redpanda Cloud

• BYOC - Bring Your Own Cloud deployment with additional enterprise features

Pages are tagged with badge:Cloud[] or badge:BYOC[] to indicate which deployment model they apply to. Pages without badges apply to both.

Contribute

The Redpanda docs are open source, and we welcome your contributions!

Before you add or edit content, consult the Redpanda Style Guide for product documentation guidelines.

Open an issue

The Redpanda docs team uses GitHub issues to track, plan, and prioritize tasks. To suggest changes:

1. Verify whether a similar issue already exists to avoid duplication.

2. Go to Issues > New Issue to create a new issue.

If you are a Redpanda employee, submit doc issues in redpanda-data/documentation-private.

Contribute content

You have two options to contribute to the documentation:

1. Directly edit a page on GitHub by selecting Make a contribution > Edit on GitHub located at the bottom of a documentation page.

2. Clone the docs repository to make changes locally on your machine. For a guide, see Submit your first contribution.

Local development

Build and preview the docs locally:

npm update
npm run start

This command opens a browser window with live reload enabled. Changes are reflected automatically.

Build the site

To build static files:

npm run build

This generates static content in the docs directory.

To serve the static files locally:

npm run serve

Repository Structure

This repository does NOT use versioning. The main branch contains the current documentation.

adp-docs/
├── antora.yml                    # Antora component configuration
├── local-antora-playbook.yml     # Local development playbook
├── package.json                  # npm configuration
├── README.adoc                   # This file
└── modules/ROOT/
    ├── nav.adoc                  # Navigation structure
    ├── pages/                    # AsciiDoc documentation pages
    ├── partials/                 # Reusable content snippets
    ├── examples/                 # YAML configurations and examples
    └── images/                   # Documentation images

Related Repositories

• docs-site - Antora playbook and site build

• docs-ui - UI theme and components

• cloud-docs - Redpanda Cloud documentation

• docs - Redpanda self-managed documentation

• rp-connect-docs - Redpanda Connect documentation