# How Harness Built an MCP Gateway for AI Chat Access to GitHub, Jira, and Confluence

DevFeed: [How Harness Built an MCP Gateway for AI Chat Access to GitHub, Jira, and Confluence](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-harness-ai-reaches-your-toolchain-safely-13373.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.harness.io/blog/bringing-third-party-apps-into-harness-ai>)

Author: Vivek Dixit

Published: 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Harness Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/harness-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>), [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol-mcp.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [mcp-gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-gateway.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [third-party](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/third-party.md>)

## AI overview

Harness describes building an MCP Gateway that lets Harness AI Chat access GitHub, Jira, and Confluence through a single governed interface. The gateway uses Harness RBAC, Secret Manager, and Connectors to control access and credentials while supporting distributed operation without dropped sessions.

## Source excerpt

One MCP Gateway lets AI Chat call GitHub, Jira, and Confluence with per-tool permissions, RBAC visibility, and no dropped sessions at scale. | Blog