diff --git a/src/js/react/agentTools.js b/src/js/react/agentTools.js
index 00067d66..1286fbee 100644
--- a/src/js/react/agentTools.js
+++ b/src/js/react/agentTools.js
@@ -432,15 +432,26 @@ const lookupConfigProperty = {
 }
 
 // ——— Latest version (from the page meta + current doc context) ————————————
+// The release metas are written by head-meta.hbs from what the version-fetcher
+// extension resolved at build time (the same lookup as doc-tools
+// get-redpanda-version, which needs a GitHub token so cannot run here).
+const readRelease = (name) => {
+  const content = document.querySelector(`meta[name="${name}"]`)?.content
+  // Some are published as tags (v25.3.4); report the bare version.
+  return content ? content.replace(/^v/, '') : null
+}
+
 const getLatestVersion = {
   name: 'get_latest_version',
   displayName: 'Get the latest version',
   description:
-    'Return the latest released Redpanda Streaming version (the core streaming product, ' +
-    'published on the docs site) and the product and version of the page the user is ' +
-    'currently viewing. Use for "what is the latest Redpanda Streaming version" and to pick ' +
-    'the right version before giving version-specific steps. Note this is the Streaming ' +
-    'version, not Redpanda Connect, Cloud, or Agentic Data Plane, which version separately.',
+    'Return the latest released versions of Redpanda products, plus the product and version ' +
+    'of the page the user is currently viewing. For Redpanda Streaming (the core streaming ' +
+    'product) it returns both the docs version (major.minor) and the latest patch release. ' +
+    'It also returns the latest Redpanda Console, Redpanda Connect, Redpanda Operator, and ' +
+    'Redpanda Helm chart releases. Use for "what is the latest version of X" (answer with ' +
+    'the patch release) and to pick the right version before giving version-specific steps. ' +
+    'Redpanda Cloud and Agentic Data Plane are not versioned here.',
   needsApproval: false,
   parameters: { type: 'object', properties: {}, required: [] },
   execute: async () => {
@@ -453,6 +464,11 @@ const getLatestVersion = {
     const version = document.querySelector('[data-version]')?.getAttribute('data-version') || null
     return {
       latestRedpandaStreamingVersion: latest,
+      latestRedpandaStreamingPatchRelease: readRelease('latest-redpanda-release'),
+      latestConsoleRelease: readRelease('latest-console-release'),
+      latestConnectRelease: readRelease('latest-connect-release'),
+      latestOperatorRelease: readRelease('latest-operator-release'),
+      latestHelmChartRelease: readRelease('latest-helm-chart-release'),
       currentPage: { product: component, version },
       note: latest ? undefined : 'Latest Redpanda version is not published on this page.',
     }
diff --git a/src/partials/head-meta.hbs b/src/partials/head-meta.hbs
index 4716cd61..a0342bfc 100644
--- a/src/partials/head-meta.hbs
+++ b/src/partials/head-meta.hbs
@@ -8,6 +8,28 @@
 {{/if}}
 {{#with (or site.components.streaming site.components.ROOT)}}
 <meta name="latest-redpanda-version" content="{{this.latest.version}}">
+{{!-- Latest releases resolved by the version-fetcher extension at build time,
+  for the Ask AI get_latest_version tool. latest-redpanda-release is the full
+  patch tag (for example v25.3.4), separate from latest-redpanda-tag below,
+  which is overloaded: it can hold the properties-JSON tag or the page's own
+  version tag. --}}
+{{#with this.latest.asciidoc.attributes}}
+{{#if latest-redpanda-tag}}
+<meta name="latest-redpanda-release" content="{{latest-redpanda-tag}}">
+{{/if}}
+{{#if latest-console-version}}
+<meta name="latest-console-release" content="{{latest-console-version}}">
+{{/if}}
+{{#if latest-connect-version}}
+<meta name="latest-connect-release" content="{{latest-connect-version}}">
+{{/if}}
+{{#if latest-operator-version}}
+<meta name="latest-operator-release" content="{{latest-operator-version}}">
+{{/if}}
+{{#if latest-redpanda-helm-chart-version}}
+<meta name="latest-helm-chart-release" content="{{latest-redpanda-helm-chart-version}}">
+{{/if}}
+{{/with}}
 {{/with}}
 {{!--
   Properties JSON URL for property tooltips