The Importance of Out-of-Band Metadata for Safe Autonomous Agents: The Redpanda Agentic Data Plane

arXiv:2605.29082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly expected to operate as digital employees: accessing enterprise data, making decisions, and taking actions autonomously. But agents are simultaneously less predictable than humans -- prone to hallucination, misinterpretation, and adversarial manipulation -- and more technically capable: with deep system knowledge and high-throughput interfaces cascading damage at machine speed. This combination makes it unsafe to rely on