Kong Unveils Konnect MCP Support to Enhance AI Development and Safety

Kong Introduces Konnect MCP Support at API Summit 2025

Kong Inc. made a significant announcement during the API Summit 2025 held in New York, unveiling its new support service known as Konnect MCP Support. This initiative aims to assist businesses in adopting and scaling agent-based AI development and MCP (Microservices Connectivity Platform) implementations. With the introduction of innovative features such as the MCP gateway function within the AI Gateway and a dedicated MCP-enabled developer portal, Kong is poised to provide the essential tools for effectively and securely building, operating, exploring, and governing MCP-based tools and applications that underpin today's AI agents.

The launch of these new solutions reinforces Kong's ongoing commitment to equipping enterprises with the necessary infrastructure and developer tools to safely and efficiently accelerate the adoption of AI coding assistants, AI workflows, and agent-based AI implementations.

Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong Inc., shared insights regarding the importance of infrastructure for realizing the potential of agent-based AI: "Agent-based AI presents great opportunities for companies, but the right infrastructure is essential to unlock that potential. While MCP establishes a foundation for agent-based workflows, there are real challenges concerning security, reliability, and performance. With these new product features, we proactively address several critical infrastructure challenges inherent in the protocols, enabling organizations to deploy advanced AI agents in production environments more swiftly and securely."

Key Features of Konnect MCP Support

Kong's MCP governance capabilities within the AI Gateway include:

- Automated Generation and Protection of MCP Servers:

Kong facilitates the automated creation of secure MCP servers from managed APIs, significantly reducing the time it takes to bring smart and advanced AI agents to market. This enhancement greatly increases developer productivity when building MCP-enabled workflows across organizations.

- Centralized MCP Authentication:

Through a dedicated MCP OAuth 2.1 authentication plugin, users can secure all MCP servers collectively. This plugin verifies tokens and automatically enforces consistent security policies across all servers, ushering in a new era of AI agents equipped with governance and compliance.

- Enhanced Observability and Governance of MCP:

By capturing data related to MCP tools, workflows, and prompts, and analyzing it on the Kong Konnect dashboard, businesses can optimize costs, monitor performance, and improve governance. This capability, along with existing LLM analytics features, allows for complete visibility over all agent workflows developed by developers.

- Seamless MCP-enabled Access:

Enabling the Konnect Developer Portal to function as an MCP server allows for easy discovery and access to APIs through AI coding assistants like Cursor.

- AI Integration Composer:

This tool allows the discovery, construction, and mapping of intelligent API endpoints for MCP servers. Through this feature, Kong begins a more extensive entry into the AI-based integration domain.

- AI Integration Runner:

This functionality generates and executes the code needed for developed MCP tools, servers, and integrations, all under the security, reliability, and governance assured by Kong's AI Gateway.

Introduction of Volcano SDK

Additionally, Kong has announced the Volcano SDK, an open-source software development kit designed to simplify and expedite the creation of MCP-enabled AI agents. Volcano provides developers with a lightweight and secure framework, allowing for the seamless construction, testing, and deployment of agent-based applications that integrate with APIs, MCP servers, and other AI systems governed through Kong Konnect.

Marco Palladino emphasized the transformative potential of Volcano SDK, stating, "Existing frameworks for AI agent development often fail to meet developers' needs for usability, safety, and simplicity, but Volcano changes that. Combined with the agent-based infrastructure provided by Konnect, organizations will have everything they need to start building sophisticated AI-enabled integrations, workflows, and user experiences, from developers to platform teams."

The Volcano SDK is set to launch as an open-source project on GitHub. For more detailed information, check Kong's official channels.

Conclusion

For further details on Kong's MCP gateway solutions through the AI Gateway, please visit the provided links. As a leading company in API management, Kong is recognized globally for its dedication to empowering businesses to become API-first organizations while enhancing their digital experiences and fostering innovation.
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