Frequently Asked Questions¶

Common questions and answers about the MCP Gateway Registry.

Getting Started¶

• What is MCP and why do I need a gateway?
• How do I deploy and register MCP servers and agents?

Tool and Agent Discovery¶

• How do I discover available MCP tools for my AI agent?
• How do I handle tool discovery when I don't know what tools are available?
• What filtering options are available for agents in the registry?

Connecting and Integration¶

• How do I get my AI coding assistant to work with this registry?
• How do I connect my agent to multiple MCP servers through the gateway?
• How do I test my agent's integration with the MCP Gateway locally?

Operations and Monitoring¶

• How do I monitor the health of MCP servers?
• How do I configure MongoDB Atlas instead of MongoDB CE?

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore¶

• How do I bulk-register all AgentCore Gateways and Runtimes from my AWS account?

Deployment Customization¶

• How do I add custom environment variables to the registry, auth-server, or mcpgw services?

Access Control and Visibility¶

• How do I restrict which agents a user can see based on their group?
• How do I restrict which MCP servers a user can see based on their Entra ID group?

Authentication and API Access¶

• How do I register and manage MCP servers that require authentication?
• Can I use an Entra ID token to call the registry API instead of the UI-generated token?
• How do I register an M2M client and assign it groups without an IdP Admin API token?
• Registry API Authentication FAQ (static token, IdP JWT, coexistence)
• How do I pass an M2M token from Entra to the registration gate?