---
title: "MCP Week Roundup"
description: "Catch up on our most recent MCP Week. Featuring MCP prompts, custom tools, GraphQL-to-MCP, enterprise governance with MCP Gateway, and building ChatGPT apps with the OpenAI Apps SDK."
canonicalUrl: "https://zuplo.com/blog/2025/12/08/mcp-week"
pageType: "blog"
date: "2025-12-08"
authors: "martyn"
tags: "Model Context Protocol"
image: "https://zuplo.com/og?text=MCP%20Week%20Roundup"
---
Our second _MCP Week_ of the year took place December 1-5 at Zuplo. We took the
opportunity to showcase a whole host of new, and updated capabilities for
building, managing, and governing MCP servers using our API Gateway.

## Zuplo MCP Gateway

Your teams are already using MCP servers. Zuplo's MCP Gateway provides a single
control plane to manage permissions, create team-specific virtual servers, and
maintain full audit trails across your organization. It's enterprise governance
for MCP at scale.

_Early access registration is now open:
[Find out more about MCP Gateway](/blog/zuplo-mcp-gateway)._

You can catch up on all the latest MCP updates below:

## Add Reusable MCP Tool Workflows to AI with MCP Prompts

MCP tools give AI agents capabilities, but prompts tell them _how_ to use those
capabilities effectively. Instead of hoping users know how to combine your
tools, ship pre-built workflows via MCP prompts that guide the AI toward useful
outcomes.

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[Read the full blog post](/blog/mcp-server-prompts).

## Using MCP Custom Tools to Build Multi-Step AI Workflows

When an AI needs to call multiple endpoints and combine results, custom tools
let you orchestrate those calls server-side. One tool call, one response, better
results.

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[Read the full blog post](/blog/mcp-server-custom-tools).

## Turn Any GraphQL API into an MCP Server

Zuplo's GraphQL-to-MCP support automatically generates introspection and
execution tools, letting AI systems dynamically discover and query any GraphQL
API without manual tool definitions.

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[Read the full blog post](/blog/mcp-server-graphql).

## Build Apps for ChatGPT with OpenAI Apps SDK and Zuplo

OpenAI's Apps SDK lets you build interactive widgets that render directly inside
ChatGPT. Zuplo now supports everything required to build with the Apps SDK using
our dynamic MCP servers.

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[Read the full blog post](/blog/openai-apps-sdk-zuplo).

## More MCP

Ready to build your own MCP server?
[Sign up for a free account](https://portal.zuplo.com/signup) and check out the
[MCP Server documentation](https://zuplo.com/docs/mcp-server/introduction) to
get started.

For enterprise MCP governance,
[register for early access](https://zuplo.com/mcp-gateway) to the MCP Gateway.