Agents can't skip steps: an MCP server that runs gated, API-only stepfiles on the client's own model.
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Write an agent's procedure once, as a YAML stepfile, and every step is gated.
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A stepfile Make the procedure you already wrote enforceable Command line
Agents can't skip steps. The agent moves on only when a mechanical check passes, never on its own word. Stepgate is for anyone running agents on procedures where a skipped step or an invented value costs something, such as a cited research report, a CVE triage or a ticket written to Jira.
One file runs anywhere. A stepfile has no packages, no versions to pin and no code to deploy, so it moves as a single file to any MCP client, such as Claude Code, Cursor or an agent you wrote, and runs on the model that client already uses.
A stepfile declares its inputs, the remote APIs and MCP servers it may call, and an ordered list of steps. Each step says what output it must produce and which gates check that output. The file names no model and no framework.
Stepgate runs stepfiles. It is an MCP server that offers each stepfile as a tool. When a client's agent calls it, Stepgate shows the agent one step at a time, makes every API call the step needs, and moves on only when the step's gates pass.
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