Secure Agent Gateway
A governed gateway separates agent intent from access to business systems. Identity, tenant policy, typed MCP tools, approval rules, and audit records keep execution bounded and reviewable.
Secure Agent Gateway system boundary
The agent submits typed tool intent to an MCP gateway. OIDC or OAuth identity and tenant scope reach the policy engine before schema validation, approval routing, narrow tool adapters, and immutable audit recording.
Secure Agent Gateway execution path
A system owner defines tool scopes. The agent proposes a call, deterministic services validate identity, tenant, schema, and policy, an approval gate pauses consequential actions, and an adapter executes an idempotent request against the external system.
Secure Agent Gateway context movement
The gateway passes only the identity claims, tenant scope, approved arguments, tool contract, and minimum response needed by the agent. Secrets remain in the adapter boundary and audit events retain decision provenance.
Secure Agent Gateway ownership limits
The agent can propose only registered tools and cannot access credentials, bypass tenant checks, alter policy, or execute a rejected action. The human owns approval for configured high-risk operations.
Secure Agent Gateway enforced controls
OIDC and OAuth validation, schema validation, tool allowlists, tenant isolation, least privilege, approval state, idempotency keys, bounded retries, and audit writes remain deterministic.
Secure Agent Gateway trust boundaries
Tool scopes are mapped to identity and tenant claims. Secrets stay server-side, arguments are validated before execution, sensitive fields can be redacted from traces, and adapters expose only narrow operations.
Secure Agent Gateway operating model
Gateway workers and tool adapters scale independently. Rate limits, retry budgets, queues, versioned tool contracts, and idempotency prevent provider pressure or duplicate writes from spreading across tenants.
Secure Agent Gateway recovery paths
Invalid schemas fail before execution. Expired approvals return to review, provider failures use bounded retry, duplicate requests reuse idempotency state, and ambiguous outcomes require reconciliation instead of blind replay.
Secure Agent Gateway deterministic test coverage
Contract tests cover every tool schema and adapter. Integration tests exercise tenant separation, rejected permissions, stale approvals, duplicate requests, provider errors, and audit completeness.
Secure Agent Gateway behavior evaluation
Agent evaluations measure tool selection, argument validity, refusal under insufficient scope, approval routing, and recovery behavior without replacing deterministic authorization tests.
Secure Agent Gateway operational evidence
Correlated traces connect agent intent, policy decisions, approval events, adapter calls, retries, and final status. Operators can inspect failures without exposing stored secrets.
Secure Agent Gateway deployment boundaries
The gateway, policy store, approval service, adapter workers, and audit sink deploy as separated trust boundaries with environment-specific credentials and staged tool-contract releases.
Secure Agent Gateway deliberate constraints
A gateway adds latency and policy maintenance, but it centralizes controls that would otherwise be duplicated across agents and integrations. The agent is deliberately not allowed to own authorization or secrets.
Secure Agent Gateway claim boundary
Illustrative architecture only. No client deployment, certification, performance result, or production outcome is claimed.
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