Bifrost Quick Start Bifrost Features I have been spending a lot of time around AI coding tools lately: VS Code, Copilot, Claude Code, Codex-style workflows, local agents, and MCP servers. The more tools you connect, the more you start running into the same problem. The agent is not just reading your prompt anymore. It is reading tool definitions, server descriptions, schemas, API shapes, permissions, and all the extra context that comes with giving an AI system access to real tools. That is where Bifrost caught my attention. Bifrost is an open-source AI gateway from Maxim AI. The basic idea is that instead of wiring every model provider and every tool directly into every agent, you put Bifrost in the middle as the control layer. The purpose of this test was simple: install the gateway, route real model traffic through it, connect an MCP server, turn on Code Mode, and see whether a coding agent can actually work through that setup. The governance part matters just as much as the routing part.…