Every company has a wiki. Most of those wikis are where documentation goes to die, right next to the onboarding doc from 2019 that still says to "ask Dave," who left in 2021. Now that we're handing that same knowledge to AI agents, a Drupal-powered project is betting that the fix is a wiki where both humans and bots have to get their edits approved.
Drupal 11 Under a Very Modern Hood
OpenKnowledgebase, an open-source knowledge base built by Wolfgang Ziegler and the drunomics team, has reached beta. Its self-hosted stack puts Drupal 11 and the Drupal AI module on the backend, a decoupled Nuxt 4 frontend for real-time collaborative Markdown editing, and OpenSearch for hybrid keyword-plus-semantic retrieval. Beta 1 arrived September 23, and Beta 2 followed on October 1 with a focus on reproducible installs, Docker-based evaluation, and production hardening.
The headline features are grounded AI chat with block-level citations, so answers point back to the exact chunk they came from, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint that gives AI agents direct access. The backend and Drupal module are GPL-2.0-or-later, and the frontend is MIT.
Agents Get Permission Slips, Not Master Keys
The clever part is how agents are kept on a leash. According to The DropTimes, agents can search, read, and write through an OAuth client "with permissions narrower than or equal to those of the person who granted access," and any edits they make go through review before they're published. Basically, the robot gets an intern badge, not the CEO's keycard.
The angle most people miss: this is Drupal playing to its oldest strengths. Granular permissions, content moderation, and editorial workflows were "boring enterprise features" for years. Now that every organization is nervously asking what happens when an AI agent edits the source of truth, those features are the whole point. Decoupled architecture and MCP are the new pieces, but the trust model is classic Drupal.
Turns out the hottest AI feature of 2026 is a good old approval queue.
If you've been wondering how to let AI agents near your Drupal content without giving them the run of the place, this is exactly the kind of setup we'd love to help you plan.
Source: The DropTimes