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mcp-context-forge

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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.

IBM/mcp-context-forge · Apache-2.0 · Python · updated today

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Get the code

$git clone https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge.git

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What it helps you do

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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Should you use it?

License · A

Permissive license. Free for personal and business use.

Quality · A

Clear README, topics, license and an active community.

Maintenance · A

Updated in the last 30 days.

Job area: Coding & DevOps. Always read the project README before you install, and test on a copy of your data first.

How to start

  1. 1Open the project on GitHub and read the README.
  2. 2Run: git clone https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge.git
  3. 3Add the server to Claude, Cursor or another MCP client, as the README shows.
  4. 4Test with a small task before real work.