Reference
Agent integration glossary
Definitions of MCP gateways, tools, authentication, and credential custody, with technical references and implementation guides.
Read as Markdown- MCP gateway
- An MCP gateway is an intermediary between MCP clients and MCP servers that routes requests and centralizes access controls.
- Model Context Protocol
- Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is an open protocol that lets AI applications connect to servers exposing tools, resources, and prompts.
- Toolkit
- A toolkit is a collection of related tools for one external service, such as GitHub, Gmail, or Slack.
- Tool
- A tool is an individual action an agent can request, described by a name and schemas for its inputs and outputs.
- Auth config
- An auth config is a toolkit's authentication blueprint, defining its authentication method, scopes, and application credentials.
- Connected account
- A connected account is a stored set of provider credentials linked to a user and toolkit, created when the user authenticates with that service.
- Session
- A Composio session is a runtime context that ties a user identity to the tools, authentication configuration, and connected accounts available to an agent.
- Token custody
- Token custody describes which system stores provider credentials and which system retrieves and injects them into authenticated requests.
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