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MCP Servers

Agentgateway supports connecting to MCP servers via multiple transport protocols. Choose the transport that best fits your deployment model.

Transports

Local process-based MCP servers

Server-Sent Events transport

Streamable HTTP

HTTP with streaming support

Why use agentgateway with MCP Servers?

Without agentgateway	With agentgateway
Direct client-to-server connections	Centralized gateway for all MCP traffic
No authentication layer	External authentication (OAuth2, Tailscale, etc.)
No observability	Full OpenTelemetry tracing and metrics
No rate limiting	Per-client and per-tool rate limits
No access control	Fine-grained authorization policies
Clients must handle each transport	Unified endpoint for all transports

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