AI Gateway: How to Connect Agents to External MCPs Securely

Databricks AI Gateway now lets teams connect AI agents to external MCP servers (GitHub, Glean, Atlassian, Google Drive, SharePoint) with managed OAuth and per-user permissions. Instead of manually registering OAuth apps and managing secrets per provider, teams select a provider from a dropdown and Databricks handles the full auth lifecycle. External MCP servers are registered in Unity Catalog for governance, fine-grained permissions, and audit logging. A step-by-step walkthrough covers creating a connection, testing via AI Playground or the DatabricksMCPClient SDK, deploying with Agent Bricks, and monitoring with MLflow Tracing.