# Manage Access

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/llms.txt). Component-specific: [agentic-data-plane-full.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/agentic-data-plane-full.txt)

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Control who can do what in the Agentic Data Plane. Write access policies that permit or forbid specific actions for a user, a group, or a service account, and look up the permissions behind them.

-   [Control Who Can Do What](https://docs.redpanda.com/agentic-data-plane/control/permissions-overview/)

    Understand how Agentic Data Plane decides who can do what: access policies carry the decision, and RBAC bootstraps the administrators who author them.

-   [Manage Access Policies](https://docs.redpanda.com/agentic-data-plane/control/access-policies/)

    Create Cedar-based access policies that permit or forbid specific actions in the Agentic Data Plane, with conditions over resource tags and ownership.

-   [Roles and Permissions Reference](https://docs.redpanda.com/agentic-data-plane/control/permissions-reference/)

    Look up the permissions Agentic Data Plane enforces across LLM providers, MCP servers, agents, access policies, pipelines, knowledge bases, and governance APIs.