Teams are connecting agents to internal systems ad hoc. Design the gateway that goes in front.

Every team standing up its own tool server produces a permission surface nobody can enumerate. The gateway exists so that connecting an agent to a system is a reviewed act rather than a config file in somebody's repository.

Grounded in researched DevOps, SRE and platform engineering interview loops, written to a senior-engineer editorial bar, and never padded to hit a word count.