Meet Paver
The expert AI agent for IBM Infrastructure operations

Paver chat interface: Run AI tasks with your resourcesPaver chat interface: Run AI tasks with your resources
Use cases

Turn insight into action

Paver combines IBM's infrastructure expertise, your environment's context, and built-in safeguards to help you securely move from investigation to execution.

Make infrastructure changes

Provision and configure new environments, or update and maintain existing infrastructure.

Investigate and resolve issues

Investigate incidents and performance issues across your logs, metrics, configuration, and recent change data.

Identify and remediate risks

Identify security risks in your access controls, permissions, and configuration. Generate and review proposed fixes.

Optimize infrastructure usage

Investigate spend, utilization, and capacity to find waste and inefficiencies. Optimize your cost, performance, and reliability.

Features

Make Paver work your way

CLI & Web Interface

CLI & Web Interface

Paver works where you work

Use the Paver CLI in your development workflow, or chat and explore in the graphical interface. Open a shell in either to run commands or inspect the environment directly.

Skills

Skills

Extend Paver with your domain knowledge.

Customize how Paver approaches tasks using your team's best practices, or extend Paver's built-in capabilities.

Keyring

Keyring

Connect Paver to the tools you use.

Securely store the credentials Paver needs to work with your services and tools, with per-user storage and encryption at rest.

Paver Guard

Paver Guard

Review risk before action.

A separate review agent assesses Paver's proposed operational actions, providing a risk score, explanation, and recommendation before execution.

Environments

Built into IBM Infrastructure

Capabilities and availability vary by offering. See the documentation for your offering to learn more.

IBM Cloud

Use Paver in the IBM Cloud console or CLI to plan deployments, investigate issues, and manage cloud resources.

Learn more

IBM Power

Use Paver within IBM Power Autonomous Operations to investigate issues, manage resources, and optimize capacity across on-premises Power systems and IBM Power Virtual Server.

Learn more

IBM Z

IBM watsonx Assistant for Z with IBM Paver simplifies mainframe operations by bringing generative and agentic AI capabilities directly into IBM Z environments.

Learn more