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INFRA · APIS
Velocity6.3

Merge is turning its weekly integration digest into an agent control plane — the news is always at the bottom.

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◆Current state
Merge publishes one dated digest a week, and the structure is consistent: unified Accounting, ATS, CRM, File Storage and HRIS reliability work up top, then Agent Handler and Gateway at the end, where the directional changes live. The feed now also carries per-product breakout entries (Gateway, Unified, Agent Handler) that restate the same week's items in more detail rather than adding new ones. The Agent Handler catalog carries hundreds of generic MCP connectors alongside Merge's own, on shared authentication and policy, and Gateway has been accumulating model coverage, routing controls and guardrails over the same period.
◆Where it's heading
The through-line is that Merge is repositioning from data plumbing to the layer agents pass through. Each week adds either reach (more connectors, more tools per connector, more models) or control (guardrails, per-project policy, access configuration). This window is reach-and-efficiency: the GitHub connector expanded to 145 tools, Outlook payloads were cut substantially, and Gateway guardrails became configurable per project rather than per account.
◆Prediction
Expect the per-project granularity applied to guardrails to spread to the rest of Gateway's controls, and the connector catalog to keep absorbing hosted third-party MCP servers the way Axiom was added.

◆Recent moves

  1. 12d ago

    GitHub connector hits 145 tools; Gateway adds per-project guardrails

    Follow-through on the Agent Handler arc rather than a new direction: the GitHub connector grew to 145 tools, Outlook responses were trimmed sharply (a single message from roughly 57kb to 14kb, a ten-message list from 394kb to 16kb), Axiom's MCP server was added as a hosted option, and Gateway guardrails became per-project. The accounting and HRIS sections are the usual NetSuite, Sage Intacct and Gusto reliability pass.

  2. 19d ago

    Hundreds of generic MCP connectors land in Agent Handler

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    The clearest step yet in Merge's move from data plumbing to agent control plane: the Agent Handler catalog now carries connectors Merge did not build, governed by the same infrastructure as ones it did. The accounting and HRIS half of the week is the usual reliability pass across QuickBooks, Sage Intacct and SAP SuccessFactors.

  3. 26d ago

    Link setup flow becomes configurable per integration

    Link setup became configurable per integration — auth steps and the Selective Sync screen can be hidden for specific providers while staying active behind the scenes. It reduces the end-user drop-off in the connection flow, which is where Merge's customers lose their own users.

  4. 1mo ago

    Embedded Routing Stack gives Gateway per-customer model controls

    Gateway gained per-customer model controls through the Embedded Routing Stack, alongside a broad sync-reliability pass across Greenhouse, Lever, Zoho CRM and SharePoint. The routing work is the more consequential half and sits, as usual, below the integration fixes.

  5. 1mo ago

    Gateway breakout page for the week already covered by Week 2

    A per-product breakout of Gateway's week — the GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna and Grok 4.5 additions, the you.com search tool and the Professional Plan credits — all of which the Week 2, July digest already carries. No new information beyond the detail level; the feed is capturing the same release twice in two shapes.

  6. 1mo ago

    Unified breakout page for the week already covered by Week 3

    The Unified API half of the same week the Week 3, July digest already covers: Freshservice ticket and comment webhooks, the HRIS data-quality pass across SAP SuccessFactors, Gusto and Entra ID, and assorted sync fixes. A duplicate capture of classified news rather than a separate release.