Take control of MCP with Tray Agent Gateway

Shadow MCP servers and tools are appearing inside organizations faster than IT can manage or secure them. In this on-demand Tray First Look session, Product Director Tom Walne and Senior Product Marketing Manager Michael Douglas show how Agent Gateway brings all MCP work into one managed place with guardrails, clear ownership, and full visibility.

You will see how teams replace scattered, developer-built MCP servers with governed MCP tools built on Tray. The session also explains why raw API-wrapped MCP servers fall short for agents and how composite tools make actions easier to support and guide across your systems.

What you’ll learn

• What drives MCP sprawl: How private MCP servers built across different teams create gaps for security, support, and ownership
• How to bring MCP work into one place: How Agent Gateway gives IT rules, permissions, and version control for every MCP server and tool
• Why agents need clearer MCP tools: Why raw API-wrapped MCP servers create confusion and how composite tools make actions easier to guide and support
• What teams gain by centralizing MCP: How early users reduced duplication, removed shadow MCP work, and improved reliability across agents

Session chapters

1. Why MCP adoption is creating new risk for IT: Shadow MCP servers, private builds, and why IT is struggling to manage them
2. Technical gaps in today’s MCP servers and tools: Why raw API-wrapped MCP servers fall short and why agents need more structured tools
3. Introducing Tray Agent Gateway: What Agent Gateway solves and how it centralizes MCP servers and tools under clear IT control
4. Building and exposing composite MCP tools: How Tray workflows become MCP tools, how inputs are structured, and how guardrails are applied
5. Enabling connector operations as MCP tools: How individual connector operations are exposed safely and selectively through the gateway
6. Running MCP tools from an MCP client: Invoking tools in the client, seeing results in real time, and viewing execution logs inside Tray
7. Agent-to-agent orchestration with MCP: How sub agents are exposed as MCP tools and invoked through the same gateway