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Danny Kopping 7a94a683c4 docs: rename AI Bridge to AI Gateway and Agent Boundaries to Agent Firewall (#24094)
*Disclaimer: implemented by a Coder Agent using Claude Opus 4.6*

## Summary

Renames product references across documentation:

| Old Name | New Name |
|----------|----------|
| AI Bridge | AI Gateway |
| AI Bridge Proxy | AI Gateway Proxy |
| Agent Boundaries | Agent Firewall |

## What changed

- Prose text, headings, titles, and descriptions updated across all docs
- Directories renamed:
  - `docs/ai-coder/ai-bridge/` → `docs/ai-coder/ai-gateway/`
- `docs/ai-coder/ai-bridge/ai-bridge-proxy/` →
`docs/ai-coder/ai-gateway/ai-gateway-proxy/`
  - `docs/ai-coder/agent-boundaries/` → `docs/ai-coder/agent-firewall/`
- All internal markdown links updated to new paths
- `manifest.json` route paths updated
- Rename notice added to AI Gateway and Agent Firewall entrypoint pages

## Companion PR

URL redirects (old paths → new paths):
[coder/coder.com#700](https://github.com/coder/coder.com/pull/700)

## What is intentionally NOT changed

- **Env vars**: `CODER_AIBRIDGE_*`
- **CLI flags**: `--aibridge-*`
- **API paths**: `/api/v2/aibridge/*`
- **Config keys**: `aibridge:` YAML blocks
- **Terraform variables**: `enable_aibridge`, `boundary_version`,
`use_boundary_directly`
- **Process names**: `aibridged`, `aibridgeproxyd`
- **Prometheus metrics**: `coder_aibridged_*`, `coder_aibridgeproxyd_*`
- **SDK types**: `codersdk.AIBridge*`
- **GitHub URLs**: `github.com/coder/aibridge`
- **Image paths**: `images/aibridge/`
- **Auto-generated reference docs**: `docs/reference/cli/aibridge*.md`,
`docs/reference/api/aibridge.md`, `docs/reference/api/schemas.md`
- **Frontend code**: `site/src/` references (separate PR)

Code-level renames (env vars, configs, frontend) are planned for a
follow-up PR.
2026-04-09 10:07:50 +00:00

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AI Gateway

AI bridge diagram

AI Gateway is a smart gateway for AI. It acts as an intermediary between your users' coding agents / IDEs and providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. By intercepting all the AI traffic between these clients and the upstream APIs, AI Gateway can record user prompts, token usage, and tool invocations.

AI Gateway solves 3 key problems:

  1. Centralized authn/z management: no more issuing & managing API tokens for OpenAI/Anthropic usage. Users use their Coder session or API tokens to authenticate with coderd (Coder control plane), and coderd securely communicates with the upstream APIs on their behalf.
  2. Auditing and attribution: all interactions with AI services, whether autonomous or human-initiated, will be audited and attributed back to a user.
  3. Centralized MCP administration: define a set of approved MCP servers and tools which your users may use.

Note

AI Gateway was previously known as "AI Bridge". Some configuration options, environment variables, and API paths still use the old name and will be updated in a future release.

When to use AI Gateway

As LLM adoption grows, administrators need centralized auditing, monitoring, and token management. AI Gateway enables organizations to manage AI tooling access for thousands of engineers from a single control plane.

If you are an administrator or devops leader looking to:

  • Measure AI tooling adoption across teams or projects
  • Establish an audit trail of prompts, issues, and tools invoked
  • Manage token spend in a central dashboard
  • Investigate opportunities for AI automation
  • Uncover high-leverage use cases last

AI Gateway is best suited for organizations facing these centralized management and observability challenges.

Next steps