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May 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Designing an Agent Gateway: Bridging Business Logic and Protocol Infrastructure

The article analyzes why traditional API gateways cannot meet the needs of stateful Agentic workflows and proposes a dedicated Agent gateway that handles access control, cross‑service execution tracing, and pre‑LLM security enforcement while addressing connection overhead, session fan‑out, and observability challenges.