by Kong
Updated October 19, 2026
MCP100 verdict
Not currently recommended. Shortlist — editorially admitted, not a Recommended endorsement.
MCP100 Assessment
Editorial verdict
Reviewed October 19, 2026
Task Fit
Mapped
Specialized workflows
Trust
Status warning
Use regional endpoint / minimal RBAC; static tool count is 3 but execute is broad
Maintenance
Date unavailable
No dated repository or package update is currently stored.
Popularity
Signals unavailable
No independently comparable adoption metric is currently stored.
Evidence scope
6 shared-repository stars · not MCP-specific
No MCP-specific package metric is stored
Repository identity: Kong/ai-marketplace
Stars observed October 20, 2026 · Downloads observed October 20, 2026
Current official Kong AI Marketplace repository ships Konnect MCP configuration, plugins, and skills for the hosted server. It is distribution/configuration evidence, not the hosted server implementation. The old `Kong/mcp-konnect` implementation is deprecated/archived and must not represent current adoption.
Current Kong Konnect MCP is hosted; no exact public package distribution for the hosted server was verified.
Publisher activity observed October 19, 2026
Current source snapshot
Source relationship: First-party MCP
Reviewed October 19, 2026
Evidence-backed setup
Choose your MCP client. A client connects to the MCP server; the language model is selected inside that client. Only stored, source-backed configurations are shown.
Transport not recorded
Complete client-specific setup, verification and removal are not documented in this reviewed source.
Publisher-documented setup is not the same as MCP100 execution testing. “MCP100 logic checked” means the stored configuration shape was reviewed, not that third-party MCP software was run.
Evidence checked 2026-10-19
Type-appropriate, source-backed setup for this mcp server profile.
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{"url":"https://global.mcp.konghq.com/"}Capability
Kong Konnect MCP is a Kong MCP integration for konnect gateway configuration and operational diagnostics. Use when the organization manages gateway infrastructure in Kong Konnect. Dynamic API execution broadens the effective permission surface beyond the three visible tools.
Discover Kong Konnect API actions
Retrieve an action input schema
Execute a selected Kong Konnect action
Dynamic API capability; three gateway tools are not three backend operations
Not measured yet
Estimated token footprint of the MCP tool schemas exposed to the agent.
https://global.mcp.konghq.com/
Reviewed access
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Kong is listed as First-party MCP in MCP100’s current evidence.
Current official resources:
From the publisher README
Original client setup and configuration retained from the publisher documentation.
Publisher-documented clients
These names appear in the publisher's installation documentation. MCP100-verified configurations are shown separately above when available.
Original product, capability, tool, and usage documentation from the MCP publisher. Installation sections appear under Install & Agents.
Portable Kong skills plus kong-konnect MCP configuration for Cursor, Claude
Code, and shared skill installers.
This repo is the contributor-facing source of truth for the packaged skills and install metadata. End users normally consume these assets through marketplace catalogs, plugin bundles, or shared-skill installers rather than by reading this repo directly.
This repository is currently in tech preview. It is actively maintained and updated as the shipped skills, install surfaces, and packaging workflows evolve.
Public issues are welcome during tech preview. Pull requests are currently limited to Kong employees while the preview is in progress.
The repo now uses a plugin-first layout. Root marketplace manifests advertise
installable plugin packages, and the first shipped package is
plugins/kong-konnect/.
Contributor bootstrap and maintenance guidance lives in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Recommended local validation path for contributors:
mise trust
mise install
mise run preflight
mise run deps
mise run hooks:install
mise run lint
The repo hooks are an opt-in local guardrail. GitHub Actions remains the
enforcement path on pull requests and pushes to main.
The kong-konnect MCP server uses OAuth by default at
https://global.mcp.konghq.com/. Supported interactive clients register
automatically and open a browser login when you first connect or use the server.
No token needs to be pasted. Skill-only installs do not require MCP authentication.
For CI and headless clients, including the Copilot cloud agent, use a Konnect
personal access token (kpat_) or system account token (spat_) in an
Authorization: Bearer header. See the separate
headless configuration example.
The shipped MCP configuration uses HTTP and the
global URL without an authorization header, allowing clients to use OAuth.
The server supports OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration.
Regional URLs for us, eu, au, and in are also available for region pinning;
see the installation guide.
Follow the client instructions for Claude Code, Cursor, or Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Codex CLI. Existing users should read Migrating from the old server to remove duplicate entries before reconnecting.
npx skills add kong/ai-marketplace.npx skills add kong/ai-marketplace --skill gateway-plugin-datakit.npx skills update -g -y gateway-plugin-datakit or gh skill update gateway-plugin-datakit.gh skill, preview before install with gh skill preview kong/ai-marketplace gateway-plugin-datakit.