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.
Why this job: name: mcp; topics: model-context-protocol, mcp
What it does
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.
Get started
make venv install-dev
# create .venv + install deps + build Admin UI
make serve
# gunicorn on :4444- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 3 days ago
- Stars
- 4,775
- +32 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v1.1.0
- Released 20 days ago
- Built with
- Python
- 82% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 25
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 80% closed
- 736 still open
- Pull requests
- 2,550 merged
- 258 waiting
- Releases
- 30
- 19 in the last year
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 82%
- HTML 9%
- JavaScript 7%
- Makefile 1%
Topics
- agents
- ai
- api-gateway
- asyncio
- authentication-middleware
- devops
- docker
- fastapi
- federation
- gateway
- generative-ai
- jwt
Project record
- JobMCP servers
- StatusListed
- Commits3,382
- Forks963
- Watching32
- Stars in 28 days+169
- CreatedMay 8, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026