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When several agents share the same MCP servers, copying tool rules into each agent stops scaling. I tested an open-source MCP gateway to see what it can enforce in one place, what it cannot, and what breaks when it is set up wrong.

A customer told me their yearly token budget was gone in four months, even after estimates and pilot runs. I went looking for how the industry estimates, caps, alerts on, and traces token spend.

After a run of frontier-model security incidents, I went looking for the shared rules. I found an industry body taking shape without government oversight.

Goose starts as an open-source coding agent, but its model and extension choices can take it beyond code. That flexibility is useful, but it comes with setup.

Tool allowlists help when a model makes a bad decision. They cannot stop startup hooks or an exposed gateway from acting outside the model, so those paths need their own boundaries.