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Kong (AI API Gateway)

Kong (AI API Gateway) MCP Connector for Claude

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Manage your API Gateway via Kong — orchestrate services, routes, and AI plugins directly from your agent.

10 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect your Kong API Gateway instance to any AI agent and take full control of your API lifecycle and AI traffic management through natural conversation.

What you can do

  • Service Orchestration — List backend services and create new upstream definitions defining URLs and protocols directly from your agent
  • Route Management — Configure inbound routing rules to map client requests to backend services based on specific paths or hostnames
  • AI Plugin Control — Apply and configure the ai-proxy plugin to enable LLM routing, model providers, and key encapsulation securely
  • Operational Patching — Update existing plugin configurations in real-time, allowing you to adjust rate limits or swap AI models dynamically
  • Consumer CRM — Manage consumer profiles and generate API keys for key-auth plugins to track specific user or tenant usage
  • Infrastructure Audit — Discover enabled plugins across your gateway and remove unused modules instantly to maintain a clean proxy pipeline

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Enter your Kong Admin URL and Admin Token
  3. Start managing your API connectivity from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Who is this for?

  • Platform Engineers — manage global gateway configurations and audit enabled plugins through natural conversation
  • Backend Developers — create new services and routes without leaving your terminal or switching to the Kong Manager UI
  • AI Ops Teams — monitor and adjust AI Proxy settings to optimize LLM usage and provider costs across the organization
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10 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

create_consumer_key

Generate an API Key credential for a Kong Consumer

create_route

Create a new Route to expose a Service in Kong

create_service

The payload must define the upstream URL, name, and protocol information. Create a new backend Service in Kong

delete_plugin

Delete and permanently remove a Plugin from the Kong Gateway

list_consumers

List all Consumer profiles registered in Kong

list_routes

List all routing rules configured in the Kong API Gateway

create_ai_plugin

Frequently used for enabling the `ai-proxy` plugin for LLM routing and key encapsulation. Apply a new Plugin (like AI Proxy) to a specific Service

list_plugins

g., Rate Limiting, AI Proxy, Key Auth) currently configured globally or scoped to specific Services/Routes. List all enabled Plugins on the Kong Gateway

list_services

List all Services registered in the Kong API Gateway

update_plugin

Useful for adjusting rate limits dynamically or swapping AI model providers under heavy load. Update the configuration of an existing Kong Plugin

See how to talk to your AI agent using Kong (AI API Gateway).

List all registered services in my Kong Gateway

I've found 4 services: 'auth-api', 'inventory-service', 'ai-gateway-proxy', and 'legacy-backend'. Would you like to see the routing rules for any of these?

Add the 'ai-proxy' plugin to service ID '123-abc' using OpenAI

Applying AI Proxy plugin to service '123-abc'… Done. I've configured it to route traffic to OpenAI using the GPT-4 model. Your gateway is now ready to handle AI requests for this endpoint.

Who are the registered consumers in our gateway?

I've identified 3 consumers: 'MobileApp_Prod', 'ThirdParty_Partner', and 'InternalAdmin_CLI'. 'MobileApp_Prod' has 2 active API keys. Would you like to generate a new key for 'ThirdParty_Partner'?

Absolutely. The `create_ai_plugin` tool is specifically designed to inject the `ai-proxy` plugin onto Services. You can define providers like OpenAI or Anthropic and manage model routing directly through your agent.

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