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docs(mcp-gateway): outbound credential brokering + dynamic short-lived credentials (PR 4e)#629

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Why

Companion customer-docs for agent-security PR #295 (PER-14853, PR 4e — Dynamic / Short-Lived Credential Issuance). The gateway can now mint short-lived, identity-scoped credentials for agents' outbound API calls instead of storing a long-lived secret — a customer-facing behavioral change that needs documentation.

Linear: PER-14853.

What

  • New page docs/permit-mcp-gateway/outbound-credentials.mdx (sidebar 8.5): documents the gateway as an outbound credential broker — the agent never holds the upstream secret; the gateway injects it per request, authorizes the destination against policy, and scrubs the credential from the response. Covers the three credential types:
    • Static stored secret (header / query / basic auth).
    • AWS STS — assume the configured IAM role per request → temporary credentials → SigV4-signed request; no long-lived AWS key stored or injected.
    • OAuth — refresh token stays vaulted (never injected, never logged); only a short-lived minted access token is injected.
    • Plus caching/freshness, a security summary, and the AWS-side IAM requirements (assume-role permission, target-role trust policy + per-tenant external ID, MaxSessionDuration).
  • advanced-features.mdx: new "Outbound Credential Brokering" section cross-linking the page + a Feature Maturity Summary row.
  • cspell.json: added SigV4, IRSA, HashiCorp, EKS.

How it was tested

Docs-only. Verified internal links resolve to existing pages (human-in-the-loop, enterprise-deployment, the new outbound-credentials), frontmatter matches the existing permit-mcp-gateway pages, and added the new technical terms to cspell.json so the spell-check passes. No emojis; Docusaurus admonitions used per house style.

Notes

Dynamic issuance is flagged as an Enterprise capability under active development; static credential injection + response scrubbing are described as available today. Phrasing is intentionally conservative on maturity, matching the surrounding Advanced Features page.

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…d credentials (PR 4e)

New Outbound Credentials page: the gateway brokers agents' outbound API
credentials — per-request injection + response scrubbing, plus dynamic
short-lived issuance (AWS STS temporary credentials via SigV4, OAuth access
tokens minted from a vaulted refresh token that never leaves the gateway).
Cross-linked from Advanced Features + maturity table; cspell terms added.

Companion to agent-security PR #295 (PER-14853 PR 4e). Push/PR deferred to
batch the full PER-14853 customer-docs work.
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Pull request overview

Adds customer-facing documentation for Permit MCP Gateway’s new outbound credential brokering behavior, including dynamic short-lived credential issuance (AWS STS + OAuth) and cross-linking from existing “Advanced Features” docs.

Changes:

  • Added a new Outbound Credentials guide describing static secret injection, AWS STS assume-role + SigV4 signing, and OAuth access-token minting from a vaulted refresh token.
  • Updated the “Advanced Features” page with a new “Outbound Credential Brokering” section and a corresponding Feature Maturity Summary row.
  • Extended cspell.json dictionary with new technical terms used by the docs.

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File Description
docs/permit-mcp-gateway/outbound-credentials.mdx New dedicated documentation page for outbound credential brokering and dynamic credential issuance.
docs/permit-mcp-gateway/advanced-features.mdx Adds cross-linking section + maturity table entry for outbound credential brokering.
cspell.json Adds spell-check allowlist entries for new terminology (SigV4, IRSA, HashiCorp, EKS).

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