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Resolve identity
Bind the user, agent identity, session, role and purpose before anything is discoverable.
MCP & Tool Governance
Give agents tools without giving up control.
Kynexa governs which users and agent identities can discover, access and invoke approved MCP servers, tools, and actions: with policy, scoped permissions, approvals and audit.
Reads at source · single-tenant · every policy decision logged.
Governed discovery and invocation
Only approved tools are visible; every call is identity-bound, scoped and recorded.
Bound identities
UserRole, session, purpose
Agent identityOwner, runtime, scope
Approved registry
MCP serversApproved endpoints
Tools & actionsOwner, version, risk class
Kynexa MCP & tool gateway
Policy evaluates discovery and invocation before credentials, parameters or high-impact actions are released.
Discover
Invoke
Scope
Approve
Tool-call evidence
Tool
Arguments
Identity
Decision
Result
Reason
User and agent identities are bound to an approved MCP server and tool registry. Kynexa evaluates policy before discovery and invocation, scopes credentials and parameters, requires approval for high-impact actions, and records tool, arguments, identity, decision, result and reason.
A four-stage flow. User and agent identities; an approved registry of MCP servers and tools; a policy gate applying scoped credentials, parameter limits and human approval, marking calls Allowed, Denied or Needs-approval; and a tool-call evidence record.
The problem you own
Model Context Protocol expands what agents can do by connecting them to tools and enterprise systems. It also expands the control surface: a discovered tool may expose sensitive data, execute a high-impact action or operate with credentials broader than the initiating user or agent should have.
How it works
Kynexa maintains an approved tool and MCP server registry, binds access to user and agent identity, evaluates policy before discovery and invocation and scopes credentials and parameters to the approved purpose. High-impact actions can require human approval. Every call records the tool, arguments, identity, policy decision, result and reason.
Invocation trace
One governed tool call, end to end
From request to governed tool call
Kynexa evaluates identity, registry state, purpose and risk before a tool can act.
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Check registry
Expose only approved MCP servers, tools, owners, versions, scopes and risk classes.
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Evaluate policy
Decide whether the identity can discover or invoke the tool for the requested purpose.
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Constrain call
Issue scoped credentials and parameter limits for the approved resource and action.
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Record evidence
Capture tool, arguments, identity, decision, result and reason for investigation.
Policy decides before invocation
Discovery and execution are separate decisions; high-impact actions can pause for approval.
Allowed
Execute under scope
Needs approval
Hold for human review
Denied
Stop before action
Evidence record
Tool
Arguments
Identity
Policy
Result
Reason
Kynexa resolves user and agent identity, checks the approved MCP tool registry, evaluates policy before discovery and invocation, constrains credentials and parameters for approved calls, pauses high-impact actions for approval, and records tool-call evidence.
Six steps: an agent requests a refund tool; identity and scope are resolved; policy flags it high-impact and Needs-approval; scoped credentials are issued for that order only; the tool executes Allowed under guardrails; the call is recorded with identity, parameters, result and reason.
Control matrix
Where governance applies
Discovery and invocation are both governed.
| Control surface | Policy input | Enforcement point | Audit evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool discovery | User · agent identity | Tool registry | Discovery event |
| Tool invocation | Identity · scope · sensitivity | MCP gateway | Tool-call record |
| Credentials & parameters | Approved purpose | Scoped credential boundary | Parameter log |
| High-impact actions | Risk class | Human approval | Approval record |
Tool registry
Every tool, owner, scope and access state
| Tool | Owner | Scope | Risk | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge search | Platform | Read · governed corpus | Low | Allowed |
| CRM lookup | RevOps | Read · account-scoped | Medium | Allowed |
| Issue refund | Finance | Write · per-order | High | Approval |
| Bulk export | Data | Read · all records | High | Denied |
| Send email | Comms | Write · templated | Medium | Approval |
A permission matrix of tools with owner, scope, risk and access. Knowledge search and CRM lookup are Allowed. Issue-refund and send-email Need approval. Bulk export is Denied.
What you get
Approved tool registry
Maintain visibility into MCP servers, tools, owners, versions, scopes and risk classifications.
Identity-aware access
Control which users and agents can discover or invoke each tool.
Scoped credentials and parameters
Limit a tool call to the permissions, resources and arguments approved for its purpose.
Approval workflows
Require human authorization before sensitive, irreversible or high-impact actions.
Tool-call audit
Capture who or what called a tool, the policy applied, parameters used, result returned and decision reason.
Framework-agnostic enforcement
Apply the same controls to agents built with third-party or custom frameworks.
What changes for you
What changes for you
- What you can control
- Which identities can discover and call which tools, with which scope.
- What you can prove
- Every tool call: identity, policy, parameters, result, and reason.
- What changes operationally
- Agents use enterprise tools through a governed, least-privilege action layer.
- Primary stakeholders
- Security, AI platform, application owners.
Technical FAQ
No. Credentials and parameters are scoped to the approved purpose and bound to the initiating user or agent identity.
They can require human approval before execution; the approval and decision reason are recorded with the tool call.
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