| # MCP Gateway Proxy Architecture | |
| An API gateway pattern that sits between agents and MCP servers to handle authentication, rate limits, and auditing. The gateway enforces OAuth 2.0, SAML, SSO, tool-level rate limiting, and team-based quotas. Essential for multi-team or multi-tenant MCP deployments. | |
| **Template ID:** `mcp-gateway-proxy` | |
| **Kind:** architecture | |
| **Source domain:** DevOps | |
| **Primary use case:** security | |
| **Secondary use cases:** compliance, mcp | |
| **Complexity:** 3/5 | |
| **Nodes:** 7 | |
| **Lanes:** 3 | |
| **Tags:** [mcp, gateway, proxy, oauth, rate-limiting, audit, architecture-diagram, production-grade] | |
| **Source path:** `` | |
| **Repo path:** `security/devops/mcp-gateway-proxy` | |
| ## Files | |
| - `workflow.fz` — FlowZap Code source | |
| - `metadata.json` — Structured metadata | |