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Every MCP server registered. Every call authorized. Every action audited.

Apinizer's AI Gateway treats the Model Context Protocol surface as a first-class plane. Agents discover only the servers they're scoped to; every invocation passes the same auth and audit as any other API call.

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MCP server governance — For AI teams use case overview from Apinizer. — For AI teams · MCP server governance

The problem

MCP is the new shadow IT.

Agents reach for MCP servers the way services used to reach for internal APIs in 2014 — without auth, without scope, without an audit log. The moment an agent can call 'send email' or 'create ticket', the org needs the same governance the API plane took a decade to build. Apinizer's MCP governance applies that decade of work to the new plane on day one.

Capabilities

What Apinizer does here

MCP server registry

Every server registered with capabilities, owners, and scopes. Agents discover only the servers they have permission to use.

Authenticated invocations

Every MCP call carries an identity. OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT — same surface as API calls. No anonymous tool access.

Scoped permissions

An agent might call read_calendar but not write_calendar. Permissions are per tool, per agent, per consumer — and reviewed in the same UI as API permissions.

Audit at the tool boundary

Every MCP invocation captured at the framework boundary. Who, what, when, which tool, which arguments — immutable, queryable, exportable.

Tool-level rate limits

Calls per second, per minute, per day, per agent. A runaway agent can't drain a downstream system.

Outbound credential vault

MCP servers that need external credentials pull them from the platform's encrypted vault — never embedded, never logged, never shared.

Use cases

In production, this looks like…

Banking
Istanbul bank governs 14 MCP servers across the SOC and ops teams
Each server registered with owner, scope, and auth requirement. Agents see only the tools they're scoped to; the SOC sees every invocation.
Manufacturing
Munich OEM exposes MES tools to factory agents via MCP
MES servers registered with per-line scopes. Line 3 agents cannot read line 4 telemetry; auditors confirm in one query.
Insurance
Paris insurer enforces PII boundaries on MCP-exposed claim tools
Tools that touch PII require a stricter identity claim. The gateway rejects under-scoped invocations; agents fall back to redacted variants.
Government
Riyadh ministry rate-limits 'create ticket' to prevent agent storms
Per-agent throttle on ticket creation. A misbehaving prompt loop can't flood ITSM; severity-aware alarm catches the loop in 90 seconds.
Telecom
Madrid carrier audits every MCP call across 230 agent flows
Audit query returns 'who used tool X in window Y' in seconds. The MCP plane has the same forensic surface as the API plane.
Media
Milan publisher binds MCP credentials to short-lived JWTs
Agents never hold long-lived secrets. Each invocation carries a per-call token; rotation is automatic.
Energy
Prague utility separates MCP planes for ops and finance agents
Operations agents discover only operations servers. Finance agents discover only finance servers. Same Manager; different scopes.
Public sector
Baku ministry adds an MCP server to the existing API portal
The portal lists MCP servers alongside REST APIs. Partners request access to either via the same flow.