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Uber Gives Its Agents a Bureaucracy Before They Touch the Tools
· New York time
Uber has built an MCP Gateway to standardize how AI agents discover and invoke internal services across more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools. The gateway separates tool registration from runtime execution and includes automated API discovery, access controls and protections for sensitive data. The scale explains the need for a checkpoint. An agent that can call an internal service needs to know what is available, but the company also needs limits on which services it can use and what information passes through. The gateway includes sensitive-data redaction and response filtering, along with incremental tool discovery through Omni MCP. For developers, the design offers a more consistent way to manage a large collection of services. For the business, it puts permissions between an automated request and the systems that might carry it out. It is less glamorous than an agent completing a task in seconds, but it addresses the awkward question of what the agent should be allowed to do first. The comic achievement is a front desk for software hired to eliminate administrative chores. The agents can discover thousands of tools, provided they pass through the proper gateway. Automation has arrived at the office and immediately been handed a permissions form.
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