Uber 20261001 Designing MCP Gateway: Uber's MCP Management Platform Summary
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At enterprise scale, connecting an AI agent to a useful tool is less an integration problem than a platform problem. A few hand-built Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can work well, but hundreds of teams independently wiring agents to internal systems create duplicated infrastructure, inconsistent security, poor discoverability, and tool definitions that are expensive to load into a model’s context. In “Designing MCP Gateway: Uber’s MCP Management Platform,” published by the official Uber Engineering blog, Uber describes the shared control and data planes it built to turn thousands of existing service APIs into governed agent tools. The platform now hosts more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools.
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