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# Protect Connections to Your External APIs and MCP Servers with Agentforce Policies

Create policies to protect connections to your external API and MCP servers so that agent tools can securely and properly access those services. Control access, set usage limits, and support governance standards.

**Where:** Agentforce Gateway Policies is available in Lightning Experience in Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Foundations or Agentforce 1 Editions.

**When:** This change is available on a rolling basis starting the week of May 18, 2026, with full availability planned for the end of May 2026.

**How:** From Setup, enter Policies in the Quick Find box, and select Policies to create policies from prebuilt templates and apply them to your connections. Configure usage limits and tool restrictions. Apply policies either manually by selecting specific connections or automatically through matching criteria that target connections by source or name.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Agentforce Gateway Policies](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.agentforce_gateway_policies.htm&language=en_US)