Agents
MCP Gateway
An MCP gateway is a shared layer in front of several MCP servers, centralizing controls.
Those controls include token brokering, per-call logging, quotas, and an allowlist of reachable servers.
It is a genuine convenience and a genuine risk in the same design.
A gateway that forwards one broad credential unchanged is exactly the confused-deputy shape it should prevent.
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) MCP is an open standard for connecting LLM applications to tools and data sources. Confused Deputy A confused deputy is a component tricked into using more authority than a request deserves. Tool Poisoning Tool poisoning hides an instruction in a tool's description that the model reads as legitimate.
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Agent (Agentic AI) An agent is an LLM given a loop, memory, and tools it can call. Tool Calling Tool calling lets a model request a structured action instead of only generating text. Context Engineering Context engineering decides what occupies a model's context window at every step, and in what order. Tool Contract A tool contract is the schema a tool exposes to a model.