MCP Gateway

An MCP connector is the configured link between an AI application and an external system, made of an MCP client, a transport, credentials, and an MCP server. This guide explains how connectors work, where they break down at scale, and how an MCP gateway governs them centrally.

MCP authorization controls which clients may call a protected MCP server and what their tokens allow. This guide walks through the OAuth 2.1 flow in the current MCP spec, scopes and step-up, token audience rules, the gaps teams hit in production, and per-tool enforcement at a gateway.

Remote MCP servers expose tools to AI agents over HTTP, which makes authentication and tool access the first problems to solve. This guide compares five gateways for hosting and securing them, including Bifrost, Cloudflare, Azure API Management, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway.

The best open source MCP gateways of 2026 compared: performance, governance, security, and enterprise readiness for AI teams scaling agentic workflows. TL;DR * Six open source MCP gateways worth evaluating in 2026: Bifrost, Docker MCP Gateway, IBM ContextForge, Microsoft MCP Gateway, Obot, and Agentgateway. * License matters more than it looks.

MintMCP, now renamed Mintive, is a managed MCP gateway for governing which tools AI agents can reach. This guide compares five MintMCP alternatives, including Bifrost, Docker MCP Gateway, IBM ContextForge, and Obot, on deployment, tool-level access control, identity, and audit.

The best MCP servers for Cursor connect the editor to design files, browsers, docs, and delivery tools. This guide ranks Figma, Playwright, Context7, GitHub, Linear, and five more by Cursor workflow, then shows how Bifrost runs them all behind one governed endpoint.