--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Gateways are All You Need — Karan Sampath, Anthropic' description: >- MCPs are often flaky, face multiple security vulnerabilities, and are generally hard to scale. Most enterprises struggle to use more than single digit numbers of MCPs due to issues with security, observability, and access control. In this talk, we'll explore the approaches and learnings we at Anthropic have been taking to solve this, and make MCPs more enterprise ready. Speaker info: - https://x.com/karan_sampath - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karansampath/ - https://github.com/karansampath Timestamps: 00:00:14 - Introduction: Enterprise MCP challenges. 00:01:13 - Enterprise Hurdles: Observability, access control, and security (the "three-headed hydra"). 00:03:35 - Deployment Bottlenecks: Scalability limits of current decentralized models. 00:05:35 - The Case for Gateways: Establishing a unified "root of trust." 00:07:00 - Gateway Definition: A middleware layer for auth, proxying, and routing. 00:08:28 - Core Components: Implementing OAuth, tunnels, and developer CLIs. 00:10:03 - Strategic Benefits: Improved authentication and standardized access control. 00:11:30 - Operational Gains: Multi-surface integration, security, and faster iteration. 00:15:13 - Future Vision: Decoupling agent architecture from data layers. 00:16:58 - Summary: Invest in common infrastructure to scale enterprise agents. --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/CD6R4Wf3jnY-gateways-are-all-you-need Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T14:56:34.746Z' language: null children: [] videoId: CD6R4Wf3jnY durationSeconds: 1068 publishedAt: '2026-04-27T21:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 24 endSeconds: 114 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=24' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 114 endSeconds: 125 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=114' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 125 endSeconds: 225 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=125' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 125 endSeconds: 225 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=125' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 237 endSeconds: 327 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=237' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 338 endSeconds: 428 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=338' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 428 endSeconds: 439 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=428' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 439 endSeconds: 539 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=439' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 539 endSeconds: 550 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=539' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 539 endSeconds: 550 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=539' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 550 endSeconds: 638 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=550' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 649 endSeconds: 780 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=649' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 649 endSeconds: 780 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=649' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 780 endSeconds: 791 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=780' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 791 endSeconds: 893 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=791' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 791 endSeconds: 893 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=791' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 791 endSeconds: 893 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=791' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 791 endSeconds: 893 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=791' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 904 endSeconds: 989 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=904' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 1000 endSeconds: 1068 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY?t=1000' heldReason: rights --- # Gateways are All You Need — Karan Sampath, Anthropic MCPs are often flaky, face multiple security vulnerabilities, and are generally hard to scale. Most enterprises struggle to use more than single digit numbers of MCPs due to issues with security, observability, and access control. In this talk, we'll explore the approaches and learnings we at Anthropic have been taking to solve this, and make MCPs more enterprise ready. Speaker info: - https://x.com/karan_sampath - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karansampath/ - https://github.com/karansampath Timestamps: 00:00:14 - Introduction: Enterprise MCP challenges. 00:01:13 - Enterprise Hurdles: Observability, access control, and security (the "three-headed hydra"). 00:03:35 - Deployment Bottlenecks: Scalability limits of current decentralized models. 00:05:35 - The Case for Gateways: Establishing a unified "root of trust." 00:07:00 - Gateway Definition: A middleware layer for auth, proxying, and routing. 00:08:28 - Core Components: Implementing OAuth, tunnels, and developer CLIs. 00:10:03 - Strategic Benefits: Improved authentication and standardized access control. 00:11:30 - Operational Gains: Multi-surface integration, security, and faster iteration. 00:15:13 - Future Vision: Decoupling agent architecture from data layers. 00:16:58 - Summary: Invest in common infrastructure to scale enterprise agents. --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/CD6R4Wf3jnY-gateways-are-all-you-need Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/CD6R4Wf3jnY · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.