You can use the gates you specified in App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider in middleware method.
To do this, you just need to put inside the can: and the names of the necessary gates.
Route::put('/post/{post}', function (Post $post) { // The current user may update the post...})->middleware('can:update,post');
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