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Control Plane vs Data Plane

The control plane manages policy, routing, configuration, catalogs and approvals; the data plane carries prompts, context, model traffic and tool execution.

WHY IT MATTERS

Separating the two makes policy changes safer and runtime behavior easier to reason about.

ENTERPRISE EXAMPLE

A central platform manages approved routes and quotas while application traffic flows through stateless gateways and inference endpoints.

ARCHITECTURE DECISION

Which runtime path must keep working if the control plane is temporarily unavailable?

REMEMBERControl policy centrally; keep the runtime path resilient.
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