# Create a gateway

The **New Gateway** wizard creates a gateway with a Production environment, the APIs you pick and, optionally, a first credential. Everything the wizard sets can be changed afterwards.

## Before you begin

- An API in [**APIs**](https://auth.faustine.ai/go?to=%2Fintegrations%2Fapis) whose analysis has finished. You can create the gateway without one and add the API later. See [Analyze your first API](https://docs.faustine.ai/apis/analyze-your-first-api/).

## Create the gateway

To create a gateway:

1. In the portal, go to [**Agent Gateway**](https://auth.faustine.ai/go?to=%2Fintegrations%2Fagent-gateway) and select **New Gateway**.
2. Under **Who is this gateway for?**, select one option. The choice sets the kind of the first credential and what it does with operations that require confirmation.
   - **People using chat and coding agents** creates a gateway user that asks the person before those operations run.
   - **Automations and code** creates an API key that refuses those operations.
   - **Both** starts with a gateway user. You add keys later.
3. Under **APIs**, select the APIs this gateway serves, then select **Continue**. If you have no API yet, select **Skip for now**.
4. Under **Name & URL**, enter a **Name**. The **Slug** is filled in from the name and is the last part of the URL. The **MCP URL** field shows the address clients will use.
5. Select **Continue**.
6. Under **First credential**, select **A user**, **An API key** or **Later**.
   - For a user, enter a **Display name** and a **Username**, and generate or type a password.
   - For a key, enter a **Key name**.
7. Select **Continue**, review the summary, and select **Create gateway**.

A dialog shows the key, or the username and password, once. Copy it before you close the dialog. Faustine stores only a hash of a key, and a user's password can only be reset, not read.

The gateway opens on its **Overview** tab, which lists what is left to set up.

## What the wizard creates

| Item | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Environment | Production, as the default environment. |
| Operations | Every operation of the selected APIs is exposed, except recipes and deprecated operations. |
| First credential | Scoped to every operation, not read-only. |
| Confirmation | **Ask the person** for a user created under **People** or **Both**. **Refuse** for a key created under **Automations and code**. |

## Change the name or the slug

The name and the slug are in the gateway's **Settings** tab.

> **Warning:** Changing the slug changes the MCP and REST URLs. Every client configured with the old URL stops working.

## Next steps

- [Choose which operations are exposed](https://docs.faustine.ai/agent-gateway/choose-operations/): hide what clients should not call.
- [Connect clients](https://docs.faustine.ai/agent-gateway/connect-clients/): set up Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, n8n or your own code.
- [Create a gateway user](https://docs.faustine.ai/agent-gateway/gateway-users/): add more people.
- [Environments](https://docs.faustine.ai/agent-gateway/environments/): add Staging next to Production.