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Cursor and Obot: Secure MCP Access Without Giving Up Developer Choice

Cursor and Obot: Secure MCP Access Without Giving Up Developer Choice

See how to use Cursor and Obot to limit what AI agents can do in GitHub without taking away developers’ own permissions. I’ll walk through role-specific tool access, filters, audit logs, and how to spot MCP connections that bypass the gateway—even when developers use other AI clients. Cursor is popular because developers can get productive […]

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Shadow AI: Finding the Agents and MCP Servers Already Running in Your Company

Shadow AI: Finding the Agents and MCP Servers Already Running in Your Company

Learn how to detect shadow AI and MCP servers using config files, network logs, OAuth tokens, and practical steps to bring AI usage under control.

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What to Log When an Agent Calls a Tool: AI Agent Audit Trail Schema

What to Log When an Agent Calls a Tool: AI Agent Audit Trail Schema

Chat history isn't an audit trail. See what to record for every AI agent tool call and how gateways like Obot simplify logging, security, and compliance.

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Vetting Third-Party MCP Servers for Production

Vetting Third-Party MCP Servers for Production

A practical guide to MCP server security: review tools, credentials, dependencies, permissions, maintenance, and sandbox behavior before production use.

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Why Every MCP Setup Needs a Gateway — And How I Built a Course to Prove It

Why Every MCP Setup Needs a Gateway — And How I Built a Course to Prove It

Obot on Udemy: Learn how to deploy an AI MCP Gateway and understand the architecture behind secure, governed, and observable AI systems using MCP principles.

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How to Build and Publish a Skill Your Whole Team Can Use

How to Build and Publish a Skill Your Whole Team Can Use

See how Obot helps organizations manage AI skills at scale with centralized governance, Git-based publishing, access controls, and seamless installation across AI clients.

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Access Control, Security, & Proxying in Obot

Access Control, Security, & Proxying in Obot

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we explored Obot’s architecture and walked through deploying MCP servers. This third blog post covers the security aspects of deploying the Obot MCP gateway. To ensure a scalable and secure solution, the gateway must effectively control who can access which MCP servers, manage credentials, and provide an […]

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How to Access, Add, and Manage MCP Servers in Obot

How to Access, Add, and Manage MCP Servers in Obot

A step-by-step guide to deploying Obot, connecting MCP servers, managing server types, and controlling access with registries.

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Building a Secure MCP Platform with Obot

Building a Secure MCP Platform with Obot

Hello Obot readers – Anantha Kasetty here, and I’m excited to kick off a series of blog posts on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building secure AI infrastructure using Obot MCP Gateway. As an early employee at Kong, I’ve spent years watching APIs evolve from simple connections to being the critical backbone of enterprise […]

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Using an MCP Gateway as a Developer

Using an MCP Gateway as a Developer

Introduction To start off, MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that specifies how AI applications can securely connect to external systems and data sources. It provides a consistent interaction pattern that helps AI models produce more reliable results: You can think of MCP as sort of a universal adapter that let’s your AI […]

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Automate Your WordPress Publishing: A Simple Obot MCP Setup Guide

Automate Your WordPress Publishing: A Simple Obot MCP Setup Guide

If you have a WordPress site or two, you probably know that it can be tedious to log, start writing an article, review it, setting it to be published at a certain time, etc. Let’s try using WordPress through an MCP, with Obot, to automate things for us. Let’s see what we actually can do, […]

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Security risks in the Model Context Protocol: What you need to know

Security risks in the Model Context Protocol: What you need to know

Discover the top security threats in the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—from prompt injection to tool poisoning—and learn how to safeguard enterprise AI integrations.

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