Building a Central MCP Gateway

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude talk to external tools: databases, file systems, APIs, internal services. But there’s a catch: out of the box, MCP servers run locally on each developer’s machine as a child process.

That’s fine for a single person. For a team, it’s a headache.

Every developer installs and maintains their own copy of every MCP server. Tool updates get rolled out one laptop at a time. Access to internal resources (like your production database or a shared file store) means exposing them to every dev machine. There’s no audit trail, no centralized config, no way to revoke someone’s access without touching their machine.

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Building a Central MCP Gateway