If you’ve been following Kong, you know that Kong was the first in the API platform space to introduce an enterprise-grade AI Gateway for LLM workloads. Today, we’ve also introduced a new enterprise-grade MCP Gateway to ensure that you can roll out production-ready MCP deployments.
But we are focused on more than just the Gateway.
Today, we’re excited to announce additional MCP workflow support in the Konnect Developer Portal and a brand new MCP integration solution, the MCP Composer. Keep reading to learn more!
Data might be the fuel for AI. But APIs are the proper way to package that “fuel” as AI-ready “food” is through the API.
AI coding tools can do a lot without APIs, but at some point they’ll need to be able to:
. . . and all ideally without the engineer having to leave their integrated development environment (IDE) or favorite AI coding tool. And it's not just AI coding tools. Agents will also need similar kinds of access to APIs to execute their tasks and ultimately provide value for the organization.
Unfortunately, this workflow hasn't been available for the vast majority of AI coding tools or agents. Up until today, even if an API is discovered, getting credentials and secure access is still a slow, manual process.
This changes with the new Konnect MCP-enabled Developer Portal access. Let’s explore how it works.
Back in April 2025, we released the first Konnect MCP server as an OSS project for all Konnect users and early MCP adopters. We’ve learned a lot since then, and we’ve started building out a newer wave of task and product-specific MCP server functionality that will support all of Konnect. While this is a journey we will embark on across time, we’re excited to announce that you can now enable AI coding tool access to your Konnect-managed APIs by turning your Developer Portals into MCP servers.
Kong's Konnect Developer Portal MCP Server fundamentally reshapes the AI application API discovery and access workflow by transforming any Konnect Developer Portal into an MCP server with a single click. This integration enables AI agents and coding assistants to interact with your API catalog using natural language, allowing developers to discover relevant APIs, request access programmatically, and generate production-ready client code — all within their development environment. Instead of context-switching between documentation sites and IDEs, developers can simply ask their AI assistant to "find the payment processing API and generate a Python client," and the agent handles discovery, authentication setup, and code generation automatically.
The implications for developer velocity are substantial. Businesses that publish APIs to Konnect Developer Portals can now make their entire API ecosystem immediately accessible to the growing number of AI-powered development tools that support MCP — from Claude and other AI assistants to specialized coding agents.
This isn't just about convenience; it's about democratizing API access across development teams.
Junior developers gain the same discovery capabilities as senior engineers, cross-functional teams can rapidly prototype integrations without deep API expertise, and the time from "I need this capability" to "I have working code" compresses from hours or days to minutes.
By bridging the gap between traditional API management and the emerging AI and agentic development paradigm, Kong enables organizations to maximize the value of their API investments while accelerating the pace of innovation across their development organizations.
Yes, Konnect is all about helping your organization better leverage AI for your enterprise automation, integration, and agentic use cases.
But we also want to enable you, the Konnect users, to leverage AI to better use Konnect. This is where KAi comes in.
KAi is our brand new agentic assistant in Konnect, and KAi will help you automate and speed up some of today’s most manual and complex tasks within your API platform program. We have big plans for KAi, but as of today, KAi can help you with the following.
Interested in using KAi? Just sign up for Konnect. KAi will be right there.
If you’re at API Summit, you’ve likely heard the news:
We’re claiming that IPaaS is dying.
And AI + MCP + API–powered integration is taking its place.
Today, we're excited to announce that we’re making Konnect the platform where you not only manage your APIs, but actually build the future of your organization’s AI-powered integration platform. This will admittedly take time and will occupy much of our roadmap next year, but we’re excited to announce the beginning of that journey with the Kong MCP Composer and Kong MCP Runner products in Konnect, both slated to be released in early 2026.
There are many reasons why we expanded Konnect to support:
Yes, organizations already have today’s challenges where they need to be able to build, run, discover, and govern these resources regardless of the additional demands that AI introduces. However, we knew something about these resources as we watched AI develop: these resources are the food that AI coding assistants, agents, and other AI applications will have to “eat” in order to fuel themselves as they execute tasks for your business. And the future of integration looks like being able to surface and transform these assets for consumption by AI applications.
And much of this will happen under the umbrella of MCP-enabled access to these kinds of resources.
The new AI Composer will be a brand new product in Konnect that will enable you to:
With the new AI Composer, you can start designing and generating the necessary code and components to build elegant, MCP-powered integrations and advanced MCP-powered automation workflows that will begin to replace your brittle, connector-based integration patterns.
Once composed, you’ll be able to use the AI runner to run the integration and execute transformations securely, reliably, and with high performance.
The future of integration looks like API and AI connectivity. And Konnect is your API and AI connectivity platform.
As mentioned earlier, both the new MCP Composer and MCP Runner will be released in early 2026, and we’re currently finalizing the details of an early access program.
Interested in an early access program? Please reach out to your main Kong point of contact. Be informed that this program will likely be restricted to a certain number of customers at a time, so there may be a delay in getting access to the product or program at first.
We can’t wait to see what you build with Kong.
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