feat: added MCP Gateway examples

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Description

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Summary

Adds OpenFGA authorization examples for MCP Gateway use cases:

• Workforce authorization for users, roles, MCP servers, tools, and gateway-level policies.
• Multi-tenant agent authorization with organization-scoped tool access.
• Intent-based authorization using contextual dynamic expressions.
• Documentation for the use cases and how to run the examples.
• Root README entry linking to the new MCP Gateway sample.

The examples demonstrate dynamic conditions for runtime tool parameters, including Slack channels, network restrictions, and inferred agent intent.

Requires OpenFGA with the inline_expressions experimental flag or the latest version of the OpenFGA CLI

Testing

Validated with:

fga model test --tests stores/mcp-gateway/mcp-gateway.fga.yaml
fga model test --tests stores/mcp-gateway/multi-tenant-mcp-gateway.fga.yaml
fga model test --tests stores/mcp-gateway/multi-tenant-mcp-gateway-intent.fga.yaml

All tests pass: 3/3 test suites, 15/15 checks.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added MCP Gateway authorization examples for employee-based and multi-tenant scenarios.
  • Added support for tool access policies based on roles, organizations, network location, tool type, and request parameters.
  • Added intent-based authorization examples for contextual Slack tool access.

• Documentation

  • Added setup, policy, model, and testing guidance for the new examples.
  • Linked the MCP Gateway sample from the authorization patterns documentation.

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Walkthrough

This change adds MCP Gateway authorization examples. It includes employee-facing network and role policies, multi-tenant organization policies, intent-based conditions, tests, documentation, and a README index entry.

Changes

MCP Gateway authorization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gateway sample documentation README.md, stores/mcp-gateway/README.md	The repository index links to the MCP Gateway examples. The sample README documents the authorization models, Dynamic Conditions setup, CLI commands, and tests.
Employee gateway authorization stores/mcp-gateway/mcp-gateway.fga.yaml	The model defines gateway, server, role, user, and tool permissions. Tuples and tests cover network CIDR checks, role-based access, and channel conditions.
Multi-tenant organization authorization stores/mcp-gateway/multi-tenant-mcp-gateway.fga.yaml	The model scopes agent access to organizations. Tuples and tests cover unconditional, organization-limited, and channel-specific tool access.
Intent-based authorization stores/mcp-gateway/multi-tenant-mcp-gateway-intent.fga.yaml	The model adds conditional tool access for agent intent. Tests cover allowed and denied channel and query contexts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: rhamzeh

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 3e667

The new examples currently fail repository validation and contain authorization-model contract violations. Enable inline expressions in testing and correct the models before merging.

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Findings: 1 · 3

Open (4)

• Derive can_call instead of granting it directly · New
• Document inline_expressions prerequisite for examples · New
• Correct grammar and spelling in model comment · New
• Correct spelling and grammar in sample note · New

What changed in this PR

Adds three MCP Gateway authorization examples covering workforce, multi-tenant, and intent-based access patterns.

Changes:

• Added three OpenFGA authorization models with dynamic conditions.
• Added usage documentation and prerequisites.
• Linked the examples from the root README.

File	Summary
stores/​mcp-gateway/​README.md	Documents MCP Gateway use cases and execution instructions.
stores/​mcp-gateway/​multi-tenant-mcp-gateway.fga.yaml	Adds organization-scoped agent authorization.
stores/​mcp-gateway/​multi-tenant-mcp-gateway-intent.fga.yaml	Adds intent-based contextual authorization.
stores/​mcp-gateway/​mcp-gateway.fga.yaml	Adds workforce authorization modeling.
README.md	Adds the MCP Gateway sample index entry.

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🟠 Major · Run MCP gateway models with inline expressions enabled. · main.yaml:31-48

.github/workflows/main.yaml:31-48
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Run MCP gateway models with inline expressions enabled.

$expression is the special inline-expression condition. It does not require a model condition declaration. The current CI runs the built-in fga model test instance without inline_expressions, so the current HEAD—the same revision that produced the cited failure—reports condition $expression is undefined. Run these tests against OpenFGA with --experimentals inline_expressions, or use a CLI runtime that enables this feature. Replacing $expression with a named condition would change the purpose of this example.

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In @.github/workflows/main.yaml around lines 31 - 48, Update the FGA CLI
invocation in the “Run the tests with the FGA CLI” workflow step to enable the
inline_expressions experimental feature, while preserving the existing test-file
discovery and iteration behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@stores/mcp-gateway/mcp-gateway.fga.yaml`:
- Line 28: Update can_call_readonly so it accepts either readonly_access or
readwrite_access while preserving the existing allow_policies from gateway
requirement, then add coverage for a readwrite_access principal calling an
is_readonly tool.

In `@stores/mcp-gateway/multi-tenant-mcp-gateway-intent.fga.yaml`:
- Line 15: In the tool authorization model, add a caller relation accepting
agents and expression-constrained agents, then derive can_call from caller and
agent from organization instead of making can_call directly assignable. Update
all affected test tuples that assign can_call to assign caller, preserving the
existing authorization scenarios.

In `@stores/mcp-gateway/multi-tenant-mcp-gateway.fga.yaml`:
- Around line 15-50: Refactor the `can_call` definition to be derived-only by
introducing an assignable `caller` relation for the agent restrictions, then
define `can_call` as `caller and agent from organization`. Update all direct
`can_call` tuples for the Slack tools to use `caller`, preserving the existing
tenant-isolation behavior.

In `@stores/mcp-gateway/README.md`:
- Line 49: Rewrite the sentence near the existing authorization note as
grammatical direct prose, hyphenate “intent-based authorization” and
“fine-grained,” and preserve the meaning that permissions may come from an
intent-inference engine or a token granting contextual permissions.
- Around line 26-51: Update the Markdown links in the README sections to use
each target model filename as the link text instead of “here,” including
mcp-gateway.fga.yaml, multi-tenant-mcp-gateway.fga.yaml, and
multi-tenant-mcp-gateway-intent.fga.yaml.

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Outside diff comments:
In @.github/workflows/main.yaml:
- Around line 31-48: Update the FGA CLI invocation in the “Run the tests with
the FGA CLI” workflow step to enable the inline_expressions experimental
feature, while preserving the existing test-file discovery and iteration
behavior.

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Blocking findings:

• This sample depends on openfga/cli#768 and a compatible CLI release before its documented test command and CI can pass.
• The intent test persists its test tuples, so it does not test the advertised contextual authorization flow.

I reviewed openfga/cli#768 and openfga/openfga.dev#1372 as cross-PR context. Existing review comments cover separate modeling issues, so this review does not duplicate them.