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Kong Inc. introduces MCP Registry in Kong Konnect

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1st article in the last 90 days, one of 5 articles referencing Kong Inc. Previous coverage: Kong Inc. Recognizes Winners of 2025 Partner Awards (Oct 2025).

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Kong Inc. introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Registry within the Kong Konnect Catalog to register, discover and govern MCP servers and AI-native tools, and presented Konnect as a centralized System of Record (SOR) for approved internal and external tools used by Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents.

Kong positioned MCP Registry as an extension of Konnect's existing Application Programming Interface (API) catalog so organizations could govern MCP servers in full operational context, covering underlying API dependencies, ownership, blast radius and inherited policies. The company cited an S&P Global report that 42% of companies abandoned AI initiatives before production due to friction across cost, governance and operational complexity.

Kong said MCP Registry integrated with the MCP ecosystem and complied with the AI Alliance Interoperability Framework standard, and that the registry registered, discovered and governed MCP servers and AI-native tools for agentic applications. The company described linking MCP servers to the APIs they were built on and managing Large Language Model (LLM) routing, AI gateway traffic, multi-agent communication and centralized discovery for MCP-native tools.

Kong outlined operational features including dynamic discovery of available MCP servers, approval-based discovery with ownership metadata and policy controls, and centralized observability into tool usage, health and failures for monitoring, cost management and optimization. The announcement was part of Kong's AI Connectivity launch at the New York Stock Exchange, streamed live, where the company outlined its AI Connectivity roadmap.

“With Kong MCP Registry, we are extending the Konnect Service Catalog to give enterprises a secure and scalable way to operationalize MCP, ensuring agents can safely discover and use approved tools while maintaining enterprise grade governance, visibility and control,” said Marco Palladino, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Kong.

“This builds on Kong's AI Gateway and other AI connectivity capabilities in Konnect, giving enterprises the infrastructure they need to move from fragmented AI experiments to production-ready, governed AI systems that can securely connect models, agents, APIs and tools at scale.” Kong said MCP Registry will be available in tech preview as part of Kong Konnect beginning this month, with additional Dev Portal and secure access capabilities expected to follow.

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