What Golf.dev does
Golf is the single governance layer for all AI tool integrations. It deploys in your environment and sits between your AI tools and your systems—one control point for authentication, permissions, data inspection, and audit logging, regardless of which AI tool an employee uses.
Why teams reach for it: It gives security teams visibility and control over MCP connections from third-party agents that bypass existing SIEM, DLP, and identity controls.
How Golf.dev compares
Fields the vendor doesn't document are left blank here rather than guessed — a blank means nothing verified, not a "no."
- Deploy Method
- container image
- Framework Lock In
- Specific framework only
- Runtime Languages
- Python
- Auth Built In
- Yes
- Session State Handling
- Managed
- Logs And Traces
- Built-in
- Byoc
- Yes
- Regions
- Self-hosted rather than regional: Golf Gateway is available as a Docker image for Kubernetes and container deployments on the customer's own infrastructure, and the Control Plane "can be deployed wherever your organization requires" - either Golf Cloud, hosted and operated by Golf, or self-hosted.
Where will the MCP server run?
Hosting & deployment tools are where an MCP server actually runs once it's built, usually a cloud platform.