Your own team's tools, safely reachable.
Expose internal APIs to the assistants your staff already use, without handing out a credential that outlives the conversation.
What your customers are asking for
Your own teams are already pasting data into assistants because it is faster than the internal tool. The request arriving on the platform team's desk is to make that path official.
The constraint is that internal APIs were built assuming the caller is a trusted service, not an assistant driven by whoever happens to be typing.
Why a shared API key fails
Handing an assistant a service credential collapses every internal role into one. Anyone who can reach the assistant can reach everything the service could.
Worse, the credential tends to end up in a client config on a laptop, where it outlives the person's access to the systems it opens.
One request, followed all the way through
- 01A support engineer asks: "What is the status of order 88213?"
- 02The assistant calls get_order carrying that engineer's session.
- 03LockMCP verifies it and checks their role: support may read orders, not refund them.
- 04The refund tool is not listed to this user at all, so the model cannot attempt it.
- 05The read executes with credentials injected server-side.
- 06The call is logged against the engineer, and shows up in the same audit view as everything else.
What your customer gets
Faster answers
Staff ask in the assistant instead of switching to an internal tool.
Bounded by role
A user only ever sees the tools their role permits.
No credentials on laptops
There is nothing in a client config to leak or to outlive access.
One place to look
Every agent-driven action lands in a single audit view.
What you get
A paved road
Teams expose services through one governed path instead of hand-rolled MCP servers.
Consistent auth
One identity model per connection rather than a bespoke integration each time.
Central revocation
Cut access in one place and every assistant loses it immediately.
Reuse of existing specs
If a service has an OpenAPI spec, it already has tools.