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Extend KI Principal Support to additional AI Gateway plugins

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Since Oct 21, 2026.

Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
66/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The definition of done names ai-mcp-proxy, ai-rate-limiting-advanced, rate-limiting-advanced, and opentelemetry; start by locating their plugin documentation in the developer.konghq.com repository and reviewing existing KI Principal coverage. Document KI Principal support for all four plugins, then verify each page reflects the feature. The issue links AI-232 for additional context.

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Description

internal product:ai-gateway

Definition of done

Document KI Principal support in ai-mcp-proxy, ai-rate-limiting-advanced, rate-limiting-advanced, and opentelemetry.

ai-rate-limiting-advanced: This is a backport from 3.16, so you can likely use/adapt what we already have https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/rate-limiting-advanced/#rate-limit-by-principal and https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/rate-limiting-advanced/examples/rate-limit-by-principal-metadata/

rate-limiting-advanced: This is a backport from 3.16, so you can likely use/adapt what we already have https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/rate-limiting-advanced/#rate-limit-by-principal and https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/rate-limiting-advanced/examples/rate-limit-by-principal-metadata/

opentelemetry: This is a backport from 3.16, so you can likely use/adapt what we already have https://developer.konghq.com/plugins/opentelemetry/examples/metrics-principal-attributes/

Information

https://konghq.aha.io/features/AI-232

Size

TBD (size during triage)

Dominant language
Ruby
Stars
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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