AI Agent Gateways: What They Catch, and What They Miss

The operating question.

AI Agent Gateways: what they catch and what they miss.

Gateways help route prompts, policy, telemetry, identity, model access, and traffic. They are necessary infrastructure, but they are not the whole evidence layer.

What gateways catch.

• Controlled routes, model use, policy checks, app access, and coarse telemetry.
• Some prompt, response, and egress patterns.

What they miss.

They can miss source lineage, reviewer decisions, local MCP paths, workflow ownership, release evidence, and whether the output was good enough to become the record.