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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Implements gRPC-to-MCP translation via server reflection and REST-to-MCP adaptation with automatic JSON Schema extraction, while providing OpenTelemetry-based observability across multiple backends (Phoenix, Jaeger, Zipkin). Runs as a native MCP server with 40+ plugins for protocol extensibility, Redis-backed caching for multi-cluster deployments, and built-in auth, rate-limiting, and retry policies across federated tool, agent, and API gateways.

3,393 stars. Actively maintained with 228 commits in the last 30 days.

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Maintenance 25 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 15 / 25
Community 23 / 25

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3,393

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570

Language

Python

License

Apache-2.0

Last pushed

Mar 11, 2026

Commits (30d)

228

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