Kong Konnect MCP: gateways, routes and plugins from your agent

Check gateway analytics, review routes and manage plugins across your Kong Konnect AI and API gateways by asking your AI app. ContextGate connects Kong Konnect's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor; switch off the route and plugin changes, and changes to live API traffic stay with your platform team while each lookup is recorded.

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Connecting Kong Konnect to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect Kong Konnect free and sign in with your Konnect account.
  2. 2Kong Konnect's tools are listed once you connect, all on. Route and plugin changes affect live API traffic, so switch off those tools if your AI app should only read configuration and analytics.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask your AI app which plugins are applied to a route on your gateway, then open Activity to see the Kong Konnect call.

Gateway work from your AI app

  • Review the routes on your Kong Konnect API gateways.
  • Check which plugins are configured, and change them from a chat.
  • Read gateway analytics while you debug an API in Cursor.
  • Manage AI gateways alongside your API gateways.

Keep production traffic safe

  • Switch off the tools that change routes or plugins; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
  • A policy can warn or block before a gateway change goes through.
  • Activity keeps a record of every Kong Konnect call, which helps when a route changes and you want to know how.

What you get with Kong Konnect and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use Kong KonnectClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Kong Konnect through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Kong Konnect tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Kong Konnect tools

Kong Konnect's own MCP server shows its tools once you sign in. When you connect it, they are listed and synced in your workspace.