TL;DR: Arcade protects AI agent tool execution with delegated identity, scoped tool access, and governance. Today we're extending that security model with Contextual Access: runtime hooks that let you inject your own security, compliance, and filtering logic directly into the tool execution pipeline across three hook points, via any webhook on every tool call.
The Moment Every few years, a new pattern language emerges that changes how we build software. In 1994, the Gang of Four gave us Design Patterns. In 2003, Hohpe and Woolf gave us Enterprise Integration Patterns. Since then: Microservices Patterns, Cloud Patterns, and now Agent Patterns. But there's a gap. Agents can chat and reason on their own - but they can't ‘act’ without tools. Standards like MCP have unlocked how agents discover and call tools. The protocol layer is solved. What's missin
Before building vector infrastructure, consider federation: AI agents with tool access to your existing systems. For most enterprise use cases, that's all you need. Someone told you to pivot to AI. Add an AI layer. “We need to be AI-first.” Fair enough. So you start thinking: what does AI need? Data. Obviously. So the playbook writes itself: collect data in a central place, set up a vector database, do some chunking, build a RAG pipeline, maybe fine-tune a model. Then query it. Ship the chatb
If you've been using Cursor, Claude Desktop*, VS Code, or any MCP-compatible client, you've probably experienced the same frustration: your agent is brilliant at reasoning through workflows, but the moment it needs to actually do something across your tools, you're back to juggling configurations for each individual tool, debugging auth flows, and troubleshooting why the setup that worked yesterday doesn't work today. Those days are over. With the launch of Arcade MCP Gateways, your MCP client
