Let AI tools use your APIs securely
AI agents and assistants can discover and call your APIs with the same security and limits as traditional apps. One gateway, one set of credentials—no extra deployment.
Practical use cases
Here’s what you can do when AI connects to your APIs through the gateway.
Discover and call your APIs from AI assistants
An AI assistant in an IDE, chatbot, or Copilot-style tool can list your API collections and endpoints, then execute real requests on behalf of the user. The assistant uses the same client credentials as your existing apps—no separate keys or deployment. Every call appears in your gateway logs and counts toward the same rate limits.
Let users ask questions that hit live APIs
Internal or partner-facing chatbots can answer questions by calling your APIs (e.g. “What’s the status of order X?”, “Show me the latest rates”). Traffic goes through the gateway so you keep one place for auth, quotas, and audit. Ideal for support bots, internal tools, and embedded assistants.
One gateway for apps and AI
Your mobile app, partner integration, and an AI agent all use the same gateway and the same credentials. You don’t run a separate “AI endpoint” or maintain a second set of keys. One configuration, one audit trail, one place to enforce limits and see who called what.
Full visibility and control
All AI-originated requests show up in your existing metrics, logs, and dashboards. You can apply the same per-partner or per-product limits to AI clients. Compliance and security teams see a single view of API usage—human and AI.
How AI connects to your APIs
AI assistants and tools need a standard way to discover and call your APIs. Zerq exposes your gateway so they can list collections and endpoints, then execute requests—using the same credentials your REST clients use. We support the Model Context Protocol (MCP), so any MCP-compatible client (IDEs, chatbots, automation) can connect. One auth, one execution path, one audit trail.
How it works
Clients use the same credentials they already use for your APIs (e.g. client ID, profile, token). The gateway validates them once. AI tools discover your API catalog and call endpoints; every call goes through the same security, rate limits, and audit as the rest of your traffic. No separate “AI gateway” or duplicate configuration.
Also for operators
Platform engineers and automation can manage your API catalog and workflows (create collections, update proxies, edit workflows) with the same sign-on and permissions as the admin UI. See Platform automation (Management MCP)