Kong Releases Volcano, an MCP-Native SDK for Building AI Agents

NEW YORK — API and AI company Kong released a new TypeScript-based, open source software development kit (SDK) for creating AI agents at Tuesday’s API Summit 2025.

The SDK, called Volcano, is the first to take a Model Context Protocol (MCP)-native approach to creating AI agents, according to Mark Palladino, Kong CTO and co-founder.

During his keynote presentation on Tuesday, he demoed an AI agent powered by Volcano by having audiences scan a QR code. That pulled up an interface, which asked for the participant’s name and location. Based…