--- title: Action Gateway (public) description: Give agents access to tools, APIs, and connectors through a managed MCP endpoint or SDK without putting credentials in the model context. product: Managed Agents url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/ last_updated: "2026-09-22" --- > **For AI agents:** The documentation index is at [https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt](https://docs.digitalocean.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of pages use the same URL with `index.html.md` in place of the HTML page (for example, append `index.html.md` to the directory path instead of opening the HTML document). # Action Gateway (public) Generated on 9 Oct 2026 Action Gateway gives applications and AI agents governed access to tens of thousands of tools through a managed MCP endpoint or SDK. See [What You Can Build](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/details/what-you-can-build/index.html.md) for example use cases of Action Gateway with Harness Runtime. Most Viewed Action Gateway Articles 01. [Action Gateway Concepts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/ "Explanations of Action Gateway tools, sessions, actors, connections, and toolbelts.") 02. [Action Gateway Pricing](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/pricing/ "Action Gateway charges $0.10 per 1,000 tool invocations, with included tool search and separate charges for code execution and paid tools.") 03. [How to Configure Server-Side Approval](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/configure-server-side-approval/ "Require approval for Action Gateway tool calls and handle the decision through MCP elicitation or a separate approval request.") 04. [Action Gateway Limits](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/limits/ "Request rate limits, execution constraints, and feature restrictions for Action Gateway.") 05. [Tool Policies](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/tool-policies/ "Action Gateway tool policies allow, require approval for, or deny calls within a session's selected catalog.") 06. [How to Create and Use Toolbelts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/create-toolbelts/ "Group Action Gateway tools into a versioned Toolbelt, then select that version in a session or environment spec.") 07. [How to Track Action Gateway Usage](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/track-usage/ "View Action Gateway request volume, success rate, tool usage, and provider latency in the Control Panel.") 08. [Action Gateway Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/quickstart/ "Connect Action Gateway to Claude Code or Codex and make your first tool call.") 09. [Invoke Tool](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/invoke-tool/ "Action Gateway invokes named catalog tools with validated arguments and returns an outcome for each call.") 10. [Tool Search](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/tool-search/ "Action Gateway tool search discovers relevant catalog tools and their schemas without loading the entire catalog into an agent's context.") [Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/quickstart/index.html.md): Connect Action Gateway to Claude Code or Codex and make your first tool call. [Examples](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/examples/index.html.md): Configure standalone Action Gateway sessions for web research and Jira triage, with selected tools, preloading, provider connections, and permissions. [How-Tos](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/index.html.md): Task-focused guides for connecting tools, creating toolbelts, managing approvals, and tracking Action Gateway usage. [Reference](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/reference/index.html.md): API, SDK, MCP, and doctl resources for Action Gateway. [Concepts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/index.html.md): Explanations of Action Gateway tools, sessions, actors, connections, and toolbelts. [Details](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/index.html.md): Features, pricing, availability, limits, and data privacy for Action Gateway. ## Latest Updates ### 21 September 2026 - [Managed Agents](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/index.html.md) is now available in [public preview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#public-preview) for all users. Managed Agents is a set of services that gives every agent its own microVM execution environment and governed tool access so that developers can scale agentic work without having to build and maintain infrastructure themselves. Developers can pick from agent harnesses that they already use (like Claude Code or agents built with frameworks like LangGraph and Hermes), securely connect it to more than 16,000 tools and have their agents do meaningful work in seconds, from the Control Panel or the DigitalOcean CLI. Teams can also register custom OCI images as sandbox templates with Bring-Your-Own-Template (BYOT). [DigitalOcean Harness Runtime](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/index.html.md) combines the functionality of a lightweight microVM, built-in tools like chromium and a coding sandbox needed by agents to do work. The product also offers rich lifecycle APIs that persist conversational history and working state across sessions, along with pause/resume/fork semantics so that developers can control costs and adapt workflows to the nonlinear quirks of agentic work. [Action Gateway](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/index.html.md) gives agents governed access to 16,000+ tools through a single managed MCP endpoint. This includes DigitalOcean-maintained tools such as Web Search, Web Fetch, Browser Automation, and DigitalOcean infrastructure management APIs, along with connectors for platforms like GitHub, HubSpot, Stripe, Snowflake, and more. Teams can also extend the catalog with their own MCP servers and internal tools. For more information, see [all Action Gateway release notes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/action-gateway/index.html.md).