Using an MCP Gateway with Claude Code: A Practical Guide

Learn how to integrate an MCP gateway with Claude Code to consolidate tool access, enforce governance policies, and reduce token consumption across connected MCP servers. Claude Code has emerged as a standard terminal-based coding agent for engineering teams. Its built-in support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables interaction with filesystems, databases, GitHub, web search, Slack, internal APIs, and an expanding ecosystem of community-hosted tool servers. While connecting Claude Code t