Honest trade-offs between the ways of giving an agent real access.
Running your own MCP servers is one afternoon per integration, forever. A gateway is one afternoon, once. Here is the real cost of each — and when self-hosting still wins.
Defining tools in your agent framework gives you total control over every schema. Here is what that control costs once you have twenty of them — and where it is still worth paying.
Agents with tools and deterministic workflows solve different problems. Here is the line between them, and why picking wrong is expensive in both directions.
Handing each agent its own vendor credentials works until you have four agents and six vendors. Here is what breaks, and what a single authenticated endpoint fixes.
n8n gives you a workflow engine you can run yourself. Spinrun gives an agent enforced permissions and an audit trail. Which you want depends on whether you are drawing the path or delegating it.
Zapier reached MCP from workflow automation. Spinrun was built as a gateway from the start. That difference in origin decides which one fits an agent that has to be trusted.
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