Uber details MCP Gateway: 800 servers and 5,000 tools for AI agents

Uber Engineering described its MCP Gateway platform, which exposes existing internal APIs (HTTP, gRPC, TChannel) to AI agents via the Model Context Protocol without changing downstream services. At publication, the platform hosted over 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools.

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Uber details MCP Gateway: 800 servers and 5,000 tools for AI agents

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