A scope authorises a read and says nothing about volume. An agent reads a thousand records in seconds where a person clicks ten, and until now nothing noticed: the token is valid, the tool is permitted, the ACL passes. identifier: credential keys the counter on the sub claim — the end user, whoever is asking on their behalf — so an agent looping under one person's identity spends that person's budget and cannot spend everyone's. Per-route namespace, so a busy catalog cannot exhaust another domain's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
catalog-api
Kong routing/policy layer for the catalog slice of classic-models-api
(see /Users/stephanetailland/git/classic-models-api), split out per the
DDD decomposition in ../kong-konnect-deployment-strategy.md. The backend
itself stays a single monolith — only Kong does the domain split.
Two exposure surfaces of the same API, both proxying to the real
classic-models-api backend:
- REST (
kong/rest/) — 14 routes covering products/productlines. - MCP (
kong/mcp/) — the same catalog exposed as MCP tools (list-products,get-product,create-productso far; extending to the rest is mechanical), viaai-mcp-proxy.
Auth
openid-connect on both surfaces, with a distinct audience each
(catalog-api for REST, mcp-catalog for MCP) and a real RFC 8693 token
exchange chain: MCP → catalog-api → classic-models-api (REST's own
exchange target), narrowing the token before it ever reaches the backend —
the backend never sees a token minted for a different audience.
consumer_claims/consumer_by map the JWT sub to a Kong Consumer for
per-consumer rate limiting; consumer_groups_claim maps realm roles to
Kong Consumer Groups for MCP's per-tool ACLs.
Other policies
Per-consumer + API-level rate limiting, response caching (GET/HEAD),
audit log (http-log, endpoint still a placeholder — no real log
collector in this lab).
Structure
dev/gitrepository.yaml+dev/flux-kustomization.yaml— this repo, self-referential; deploys./konginto the catalog domain's dev environment (dependsOnthe domain's Gateway infra indataplane-catalog).dev/externalsecret.yaml— git deploy key (ESO/Vault).dev/token-exchange-broker-externalsecret.yaml— the shared client secret Kong uses to authenticate its own token-exchange calls to Keycloak.kong/rest/,kong/mcp/— see above.openapi.yaml— extracted from the live backend, filtered to this domain's paths/schemas.