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Building an MCP gateway from scratch: how we got to OpenAPI for MCP

calendar_today June 12, 2026 person Chris Challis domain tyk

When you set out to build a first-class MCP gateway, the first decision you have to make is also the most consequential: how do you represent an MCP proxy definition at the gateway level? Not what features to ship. Not what the UI looks like.

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