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-=== BYOA
-:term-name: BYOA
-:hover-text: Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) is an agent you build and run yourself, in your own runtime and language. You register it with ADP for governance and observability. ADP tracks and attributes its telemetry and cost but does not host or proxy it.
-:category: Agentic Data Plane
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 === declarative agent
 :term-name: declarative agent
-:hover-text: An AI agent that runs in Redpanda's managed runtime, where you configure its behavior (LLM, system prompt, and attached tools) instead of writing agent code. Contrast with a BYOA agent, which you build and run in your own runtime.
+:hover-text: An AI agent that runs in Redpanda's managed runtime, where you configure its behavior (LLM, system prompt, and attached tools) instead of writing agent code. Contrast with a self-managed agent, which you build and run in your own runtime.
 :category: Agentic Data Plane
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+=== self-managed agent
+:term-name: self-managed agent
+:hover-text: An AI agent you build and run yourself, in your own runtime and framework, registered with Redpanda ADP as an identity. The AI Gateway becomes the agent's LLM and MCP endpoint, so ADP attributes spend, tokens, latency, and traces back to the agent. ADP does not host or run the agent. Contrast with a declarative agent, which runs in Redpanda's managed runtime.
+:category: Agentic Data Plane
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+=== self-managed MCP server
+:term-name: self-managed MCP server
+:hover-text: An MCP server you host and operate yourself, registered with Redpanda ADP so the AI Gateway can proxy tool calls to it. Contrast with a managed MCP server, which Redpanda hosts in-process for you.
+:category: Agentic Data Plane