Use case
Consolidate tool access
Every agent reaches for tools: CRMs, ticketing, file stores, custom MCP servers, internal APIs. Today those credentials sit in the agent, and trust ends with the client. A single gateway over every call is the right boundary, where access is limited, policy enforced, and every action audited.
Agentic patterns
Tool calls happen on both sides of the wire
The same gateway primitive applies whether you're governing the tool calls your agents make, or exposing your APIs as a tool surface for customer agents to call. The control shifts; the boundary stays the same.
AI In
Your internal estate
The tool calls your agents make against CRMs, ticketing, file stores, custom MCP servers, and internal APIs. One gateway replaces credentials in agent code and per-tool re-implementations.
Scenario
A support-triage agent reaches for Salesforce, Jira, Snowflake, and a custom MCP server. Without a gateway, credentials live in each agent and audit lives in four different formats.
Outcomes that matter
- One authentication model across every tool
- Policy at the call boundary, with full context
- One audit trail across every action
AI Out
Your customer and partner estate
Customers and integration partners reach for your APIs through agents. An MCP tool surface in front of those APIs gives you the operational discipline agents need.
Scenario
A customer's agent drives your billing API with a sequence of calls you didn't anticipate. You need intent-aware policy and per-customer attribution, not just per-key throttles.
Outcomes that matter
- Stand up an MCP surface without rewriting your APIs
- Per-customer attribution, rate limits, and quotas
- Intent-aware policy alongside the API gateway
The tool call boundary
Tool calls are where governance actually happens
Authorizing the agent is necessary but not sufficient. The call itself carries arguments your policy was never designed for. The gateway is where you control what the caller is trying to do, not just whether they're allowed to call.
Tool call request with intent
Agent + user identity verified
Evaluate args, allow/deny/judge
Credential injected at boundary
Filtered, audited, returned
One gateway in front of every tool means one place to verify the caller, one place to evaluate policy, and one place to audit. No credentials in agent code. No tool-by-tool re-implementations of the same controls.
What you get
One boundary, three operations
Limit access
Constrain the systems and data each agent can reach. Tools attach to agents explicitly; the gateway refuses anything unattached. No standing credentials in agent code.
Enforce policy
Every call evaluated against policy with full context: agent identity, user identity, tool, arguments. Allow, deny, or escalate. Outputs filtered before they return.
Audit every call
Each tool call recorded with who, what, under which rule, and with what result. Queryable. Streamable to the SIEM and SOAR systems your team already operates.
Before and after
Where the operational work ends up
The work doesn't disappear; it relocates. Per-tool, per-agent, per-team controls collapse into one place that the platform team operates and security can reason about.
Before
After
Distributed control
Credentials live in each agent. Each tool has its own auth model. Audit is per-tool and per-format. Policy decisions are duplicated across agents that all call the same backend.
One gateway
Credentials live in the gateway. Policy is attached to the tool, not the agent. Audit is one event vocabulary across every action. Adding a tool is a configuration, not a refactor.
Output trust
Whatever the tool returns flows back to the agent. PII, restricted records, credentials embedded in payloads, all of it landing in the agent's context window.
Output governance
Responses pass back through policy. Fields can be redacted, records refused, sensitive substrings filtered. Outputs governed as well as inputs.
Composes with
The enterprise systems you already have
The gateway is a control point on top of the systems your team already operates. Credentials, policy, and audit each route through their existing home.
Secrets
Tool credentials never leave the gateway. Injected at the call boundary from the secrets store your team already manages.
Learn moreIdP
End-user identity propagates from the front door through every tool call, attributable to your existing identity provider.
Learn moreSIEM
Every governed call streams to the security data lake. The full audit vocabulary lands in your existing query surface.
Learn moreSOAR
Denials and anomalies can trigger playbooks. The audit trail provides the evidence chain those playbooks need to act.
Learn moreMCP ecosystem
External MCP servers attach as tools and flow through the same gateway. One policy, one audit, one operational surface.
Learn moreSource control
Tool attachments and Cedar policy live in a repo. Versioned, peer-reviewed, simulated against recent traffic before merge.
Learn moreNext steps