Hey, swyx! Great seeing you here.

airbyte agents could serve as a form of MCP gateway

Exactly! And a single set of tools for agents to access both realtime (direct reads/writes) as well as cached (Context Store), bringing hopefully the best access path for each different use case.

would love a "data engineering for ai engineers" type braindump ... at AIE

Great idea - we have a booth at AIE, and we'll submit there for a talk. Mario will reach out to you about this. :)