{"slug": "apigee-gets-mcp-support-token-rate-limiting-for-ai-agents", "title": "Apigee Gets MCP Support: Token Rate Limiting for AI Agents", "summary": "Google's Apigee now converts any REST API into a governed MCP tool with token-aware rate limiting, addressing security risks from over 8,000 exposed MCP instances reported in February 2026. The move aims to prevent misconfigured endpoints by automating auth, rate limiting, and auditing for AI agents.", "body_md": "MCP servers are multiplying fast, and most of them are one misconfigured endpoint away from disaster. A February 2026 report catalogued over 8,000 exposed MCP instances across IDEs, internal tools, and cloud services. The cause isn’t a protocol flaw — it’s that teams are hand-rolling auth, rate limiting, and auditing for each new agent tool, because they assume MCP requires new server infrastructure. Google’s answer: it doesn’t. Apigee, Google’s API management platform, now converts any existing REST API into a governed MCP tool automatically, with token-aware rate limiting included. How Apigee Turns Your API into an MCP Tool The mechanism […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apigee-gets-mcp-support-token-rate-limiting-for-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/apigee-mcp-token-rate-limiting-ai-agents/", "published_at": "2026-06-18 21:10:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 21:10:53.431009+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Google", "Apigee", "MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apigee-gets-mcp-support-token-rate-limiting-for-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apigee-gets-mcp-support-token-rate-limiting-for-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apigee-gets-mcp-support-token-rate-limiting-for-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apigee-gets-mcp-support-token-rate-limiting-for-ai-agents.jsonld"}}