# Action Gateway – DigitalOcean Documentation > Give agents access to tools, APIs, and connectors through a managed MCP endpoint or SDK without putting credentials in the model context. - [Action Gateway Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/quickstart/index.html.md): Connect a coding agent to Action Gateway in three steps. Create a session in the Control Panel with the default settings, including the Ask permission policy, and copy its MCP URL. Add the URL to … ## Action Gateway Examples Configure standalone Action Gateway sessions for web research and Jira triage, with selected tools, preloading, provider connections, and permissions. - [Build a Web Research Assistant](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/examples/build-research-assistant/index.html.md): Configure an Action Gateway session with Exa search and fetch so a coding agent can find sources, read pages, and produce a research brief. - [Triage Jira Issues](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/examples/triage-jira-issues/index.html.md): Configure Action Gateway to read Jira issues through an actor connection and require human approval before posting a comment. ## Action Gateway How-Tos Task-focused guides for connecting tools, creating toolbelts, managing approvals, and tracking Action Gateway usage. - [How to Connect Action Gateway Tools](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/connect-action-gateway/index.html.md): Connect your application or coding agent to an Action Gateway session using MCP, the Python SDK, or the TypeScript SDK. - [How to Authorize Providers with Connections](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/manage-connections/index.html.md): Create Action Gateway connections for provider accounts and use actors to select which connections a session uses. - [How to Add a Custom Tool Provider](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/add-custom-tool-provider/index.html.md): Add a remote MCP server to Action Gateway with no authentication, an API key, or an OAuth connection. - [How to Use Tool Playground](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/use-tool-playground/index.html.md): Use Action Gateway Tool Playground to find and run tools in a model conversation, then inspect calls and results. - [How to Create and Use Toolbelts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/create-toolbelts/index.html.md): Group Action Gateway tools into a versioned Toolbelt, then select that version in a session or environment spec. - [How to Manage Action Gateway Sessions](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/manage-sessions/index.html.md): Create an Action Gateway session to get an MCP endpoint URL with the tools and permissions your client needs. - [How to Configure Server-Side Approval](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/configure-server-side-approval/index.html.md): Require approval for Action Gateway tool calls and handle the decision through MCP elicitation or a separate approval request. - [How to Add a Tool Output View](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/add-tool-output-view/index.html.md): Create an Action Gateway output view that keeps selected result fields and bind it to a new session. - [How to Configure Action Gateway for Production Agents](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/use-in-production/index.html.md): Use selected tools and a default-deny policy to constrain production Action Gateway sessions. Preload known tools for model-driven workflows, or call named tools directly from Python for fixed … - [How to Track Action Gateway Usage](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/track-usage/index.html.md): View Action Gateway request volume, success rate, tool usage, and provider latency in the Control Panel. - [How to Manage Action Gateway Prepayment](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/how-to/manage-ag-prepayment/index.html.md): Fund the shared prepaid balance for Action Gateway and understand what happens when the balance reaches $0. ## Action Gateway Reference API, SDK, MCP, and doctl resources for Action Gateway. - [Action Gateway Tool Providers](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/reference/providers/index.html.md): Action Gateway providers connect agents to external services. Browse public providers and their authentication options. ## Action Gateway Concepts Explanations of Action Gateway tools, sessions, actors, connections, and toolbelts. - [Action Gateway Overview](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/overview/index.html.md): Action Gateway gives agents catalog tools through a managed MCP endpoint using action_search, action_invoke, and action_code, with on-demand discovery, preloading, and output views to control model … - [Sessions](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/sessions/index.html.md): An Action Gateway session gives you an MCP endpoint URL with the tools and permissions you choose for your client. - [Actors](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/actors/index.html.md): An Action Gateway actor is a user-defined identity that links a user's provider accounts to the sessions that use them. - [Connections](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/connections/index.html.md): Action Gateway connections authorize provider accounts for an actor, belong to the creating DigitalOcean user, and keep credentials out of model context. - [Toolbelts](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/toolbelts/index.html.md): Action Gateway Toolbelts group tools into versioned collections for session selection, group permissions, and preloading. - [Tool Policies](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/tool-policies/index.html.md): Action Gateway tool policies allow, require approval for, or deny calls within a session's selected catalog. - [Preloading Tools](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/preloading-tools/index.html.md): Action Gateway preloading exposes known tools directly to the model while tool search discovers other relevant tools as needed. - [Tool Search](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/tool-search/index.html.md): Action Gateway tool search discovers relevant catalog tools and their schemas without loading the entire catalog into an agent's context. - [Invoke Tool](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/invoke-tool/index.html.md): Action Gateway invokes named catalog tools with validated arguments and returns an outcome for each call. - [Code Execution Tool](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/code-execution-tool/index.html.md): Action Gateway runs an agent's Python code in an ephemeral sandbox, with optional programmatic tool calling for advanced workflows. - [Reliable Execution](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/concepts/reliable-execution/index.html.md): Action Gateway uses bounded, tool-specific retries and provider idempotency where supported, without guaranteeing that arbitrary repeated calls are safe. ## Action Gateway Details Features, pricing, availability, limits, and data privacy for Action Gateway. - [What You Can Build with Action Gateway](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/what-you-can-build/index.html.md): Build research assistants, issue-triage workflows, and connected applications with Action Gateway tools, provider connections, and execution policies. - [Action Gateway Features](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/features/index.html.md): Action Gateway capabilities for MCP sessions, tool search and invoke, code execution, credential isolation, Toolbelts, policies, and Insights. - [Action Gateway Pricing](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/pricing/index.html.md): Action Gateway charges $0.10 per 1,000 tool invocations, with included tool search and separate charges for code execution and paid tools. - [Action Gateway Availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/availability/index.html.md): Datacenter regions where Action Gateway sessions and tool execution are available. - [Action Gateway Limits](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/limits/index.html.md): Request rate limits, execution constraints, and feature restrictions for Action Gateway. - [DigitalOcean Managed Agent Runtime Services: Harness Runtime & Action Gateway (Insights Enabled): Data Privacy](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/action-gateway/details/data-privacy/index.html.md): Privacy disclosures for Harness Runtime and Action Gateway during public preview.