Illustrated guide to MCP Gateway
A visual walkthrough of how an MCP Gateway governs the way AI agents reach your tools — discovery, policy, credentials, private routing, sessions, deployment, and audit.
12guides
156illustrations
16:9master format
~4 minper guide
Guide 01
Overview · 13 illustrations
The MCP Gateway, Illustrated
A guided map of how agents, MCP servers, APIs, policy, credentials, sessions, private routes, and audit fit into one governed path.
Guide 02
Agent lifecycle · 13 illustrations
A Day in the Life of a Governed Agent
Follow one agent through registration, discovery, allowed work, clean denials, brokered credentials, private routing, revocation, and audit.
Guide 03
Getting started · 13 illustrations
Your First Governed MCP Project
The smallest useful path through the gateway, showing what must be named, registered, checked, routed, and recorded.
Guide 04
API operations · 13 illustrations
From REST API to Governed MCP Tool
How one selected REST/OpenAPI operation becomes an MCP tool while still keeping review, schema, host, credential, policy, and audit controls.
Guide 05
Discovery control · 13 illustrations
Policy-Filtered Discovery
Why approved tools are not automatically visible to every agent, and how actor, surface, environment, risk, credential mode, and session state shape discovery.
Guide 06
Credentials · 13 illustrations
The Credential Broker
How credential modes, binding references, secret-store integration, rotation, revocation, and audit work without turning agents into secret holders.
Guide 07
Private connectivity · 13 illustrations
The Private Connector
How governed calls reach private MCP servers and internal APIs through approved connector paths with health, revocation, and path audit.
Guide 08
Deployment model · 13 illustrations
Hybrid vs Self-Hosted: Same Governance, Different Boundary
How hybrid and self-hosted deployments keep the same control model while changing ownership, dependency, and runtime boundary.
Guide 09
Security operations · 13 illustrations
The Security Admin's Incident Drill
A security drill that starts from one receipt and follows audit lookup, actor reconstruction, policy context, credential mode, route visibility, and revocation.
Guide 10
Control plane · 13 illustrations
The Control Plane Triage Loop
How operators run the gateway control plane — read posture, inspect servers, tools, policy, and usage, trace a risky call, revoke access, and do it all from the Web UI, HTTP API, or CLI.
Guide 11
Shared controls · 13 illustrations
Shared MCP Security Controls
What starts to drift when each team solves MCP security alone, and what becomes easier to reason about when shared controls sit on one governed path.
Guide 12
Mental model · 13 illustrations
MCP Gateway in Five Objects
A compact mental model for the gateway: registry, policy, credentials, connectors, sessions, audit, and admin controls.
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