Know Your MCPs
The words represented by an acronym that is now very coming in our day to day, thanks to OpenAI's rival.
What is Model Context Protocol?
The first release most closely related to AI Gateway.
What is the AI Spend Console?
Which AI Governance component comes with the platform?
What is Agent Identity?
The pre-AI version of unapproved software.
What is Shadow IT?
The feature that is used to share Rippling data with AI clients other than Rippling AI.
What is Rippling MCP server?
In regards to a tool, what is needed by AI to be able to use data and actions provided by an MCP server?
What is context or instructions?
The month in which the AI Gateway beta currently scheduled.
What is September?
What is the larger project/marketing term Agent Identity falls under, but is not a SKU itself?
What is AI Governance?
The month in which the beta for Shadow AI detection is currently scheduled.
What is October?
A set of features available with Rippling AI to pipe in, transform, and store data, among other things.
What is Data Cloud?
The number of MCP Gateway connectors currently available in demo accounts as of August 20th.
What is 59?
The dollar amount of the recent purchase price of an routing company that sold to a well-known payment processing company.
What is OpenRouter?
The app in which service accounts are managed.
What is Users?
The two primary information sources that will power Shadow AI detection.
What is SSO logs and OSquery data?
How is Claude able to invoke Rippling AI?
The intersection at which MCP Gateway is charged for.
What is the intersection of 3rd party AI Clients and 3rd party MCP servers?
The two main AI areas that AI Gateway will enable companies to more closely control.
What is spend and security?
One thread that runs through all products that gives Rippling it's advantage, especially in AI Governance.
What is the employee graph?
The evil entity that secretly overtook the intelligence agency that originally assembled the Avengers.
What is Hydra?
The two admin-controlled ways that Rippling AI evaluates what to do with a given Helpdesk ask.
What are Skills and Request Policies?
The second letter in the boolean value regarding to the this statement: "some customers will use MCP Gateway without paying for the SKU".
What is R?
The syntax used in identifying certain types of data intended to be intercepted and redacted with Rippling AI Gateway.
What is Regex (regular expressions)?
The biggest AI release coming after all AI Governance releases.
What is Rippling AI Agents?
The experts of Shadow AI at Rippling.
Who are the IT SCs?