You’ll need an MCP Manager workspace. A few steps (adding servers, creating gateways, inviting people) depend on capabilities your role may or may not have — each tutorial flags the capability it needs near the top. If a button or page in a tutorial isn’t visible to you, that’s the capability talking, not a wrong turn.
Start here
The two first-win lessons — one for an administrator standing the system up, one for a person who was handed a gateway URL.Your first governed tool call
Add the public docs MCP server, put it behind a gateway, connect your AI client, call a tool, and watch the request land in your audit log. About five minutes.
Connect your AI client to a gateway
Add a gateway URL to Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code, authorize, and start using its tools. About five minutes.
Connect your own servers
Bring a server that isn’t on the public internet under the same governance.Connect a workstation MCP server
Run an MCP server on your own machine and connect it through an encrypted tunnel — nothing exposed to the internet, no firewall changes, fully logged. About ten minutes.
Run it for your team
Go from a single connection to a governed, observable rollout: scope tools to a team, add a guardrail, and learn to read what happened.Build a team gateway
Create a team, build a gateway for it, trim its tools, invite a teammate, and confirm they see only that gateway.
Add your first gateway rule
Add a rule that detects sensitive data, run it in a non-blocking alert configuration, trigger it, and see it fire.
Redact PII with Presidio
Add a Presidio rule on the response leg, fail it closed, and watch an email get replaced with a typed tag.
Trace a call in your logs
Follow one tool call through the logs and answer who did what, when, and through which tool.
Build with it
Drive a gateway from code, with no browser in the loop.Run a headless agent
Create a token-based host, generate an API access token, and call a tool over HTTP with a bearer token — fully attributed and logged.
Build a custom rule engine
Write a webhook that redacts emails, register it, test it, attach it to a rule, and see its verdict in your logs.
Further reading
Your first governed tool call
The best place to start if you’re new to MCP Manager.
Introduction
What MCP Manager is and the problem it solves.
MCP Gateways
How a gateway aggregates servers, brokers identity, and applies rules.
Gateway Deployment Strategies
Topologies for rolling gateways out across an organization.