MCP Gateway control plane features

MCP Gateway control plane features give administrators centralized control over how users, agents, and MCP servers connect and interact across an organization.

These features extend identity and access management through identity provider integration, groups, and profiles. Administrators can govern access by team or role rather than by individual user.

They also support MCP server governance through an organizational catalog of approved servers, a custom registry, and an evaluation sandbox for testing new servers. Risk scoring flags high-impact tools so administrators can assess risk before approving a server for use.

For oversight, the control plane provides full auditability, a usage dashboard, and an agent inventory that tracks every connected agent and its activity.

Additional capabilities include secret management for handling credentials within your own infrastructure, in-client authentication for inline OAuth sign-in, and eco mode for hibernating idle instances. Saved setups let you restore a known-good configuration, and an integration with OpenAI Agent Builder extends secure access to ChatGPT.

The following topics describe all the MCP Gateway control plane features:

• Centralized user management
• Groups
• Profile
• Organizational catalog
• Custom MCP server registry
• Full auditability
• Secret management
• MCP evaluation sandbox
• OpenAI agent builder integration
• Agent inventory
• Usage dashboard
• Risk scoring
• In-client authentication
• Eco mode
• Saved setups