IBM/mcp-context-forge
An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 172 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #100 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 14, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an AI gateway, registry, and proxy that unifies MCP, A2A, REST, and gRPC APIs into a single endpoint with centralized discovery and management.
- Enables seamless federation, virtualization, and protocol flexibility with built-in authentication, rate-limiting, observability, and multi-cluster scalability.
- Use for integrating diverse AI agent and tool APIs behind a unified MCP-compliant gateway for simplified client access and management.
- Use for federating multiple MCP and REST services across clusters with Redis-backed syncing and failover for high availability.
- Use for virtualizing legacy REST or gRPC services as MCP tools with automatic schema extraction and unified observability via OpenTelemetry.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Model Context Protocol gateway & proxy - unify REST, MCP, and A2A with federation, virtual servers, retries, security, and an optional admin UI.
ContextForge MCP Gateway is a feature-rich gateway, proxy and MCP Registry that federates MCP and REST services - unifying discovery, auth, rate-limiting, observability, virtual servers, multi-transport protocols, and an optional Admin UI into one clean endpoint for your AI clients. It runs as a fully compliant MCP server, deployable via PyPI or Docker, and scales to multi-cluster environments on Kubernetes with Redis-backed federation and caching.
ContextForge MCP Gateway is a gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any Model Context Protocol (MCP) server or REST API-exposing a unified endpoint for all your AI clients.
⚠️ Caution: The current release (0.6.0) is considered alpha / early beta. It is not production-ready and should only be used for local development, testing, or experimentation. Features, APIs, and behaviors are subject to change without notice. Do not deploy in production environments without thorough security review, validation and additional security mechanisms. Many of the features required for secure, large-scale, or multi-tenant production deployments are still on the project roadmap - which is itself evolving.
For a list of upcoming features, check out the ContextForge MCP Gateway Roadmap
Daily snapshots
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Forks
953+166
Open issues
979-220
Compared with peers in AI
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| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 113.6K | +8.8K | 35 | today |
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 98.1K | +6.9K | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Leonxlnx/taste-skill | 110.7K | +5.2K | 55 | 1 day ago |
| calesthio/OpenMontage | 77.2K | +4.2K | 40 | — |
| heygen-com/hyperframes | 79.6K | +4.1K | 45 | today |
| IBM/mcp-context-forge | 4.7K | — | 65 | 9 days ago |
| Category median | 98.1K | +5.2K | 45 | — |
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