Micro-MCP Architecture Pattern

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Secure and isolated access to multiple MCP services aggregated through a gateway.

• 2

  Scalable and independently deployable microservices exposing MCP capabilities.

• 3

  Policy-controlled, observable, and auditable access to diverse resources like filesystems, HTTP fetchers, and vector stores.

Description

Micro-MCP enables the composition of many single-purpose MCP servers aggregated by a lightweight gateway that handles discovery, policy enforcement, and audit logging. This architecture improves security isolation, deployment agility, and operability by splitting capabilities into independent microservices. It supports enterprise integration, research data access, automation, and personal productivity use cases with clear ownership and fine-grained policy control.