MCP Infrastructure
MCP is the connector layer between agents and the systems they need: files, tools, APIs, databases, SaaS apps, and internal services.
This section focuses on infrastructure patterns rather than basic MCP usage. The goal is to understand how MCP scales inside an organization when many teams, products, and agents need the same integrations.
In This Series
Section titled “In This Series”Where This Fits
Section titled “Where This Fits”- Use Skills for reusable procedures.
- Use Agent Workflow Patterns for how to work with coding agents.
- Use this section for shared MCP architecture: gateways, auth, routing, policy, observability, and integration reuse.
Core Idea
Section titled “Core Idea”MCP is useful because it standardizes how model-facing applications exchange context and capabilities.
At small scale, one app can connect directly to one MCP server. At organizational scale, direct connections can become hard to secure and operate. That is where shared infrastructure patterns, especially gateways, become useful.