IBM/mcp-context-forge

Score: 63.9 Rank #41

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.

Overview

IBM/mcp-context-forge is a Python agent tool licensed under Apache-2.0. 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. Topics: agents, ai, api-gateway, asyncio, authentication-middleware, devops, docker, fastapi, federation, gateway, generative-ai, jwt, kubernetes, llm-agents, mcp, model-context-protocol, observability, prompt-engineering, python, tools.

Ranked #41 out of 25632 indexed tools.

In the top 1% of all indexed tools.

Has 3,408 GitHub stars.

Has 139 contributors.

Actively maintained with commits in the last week.

Ecosystem

Python Apache-2.0 2 weekly downloads

agentsaiapi-gatewayasyncioauthentication-middlewaredevopsdockerfastapifederationgatewaygenerative-aijwtkubernetesllm-agentsmcpmodel-context-protocolobservabilityprompt-engineeringpythontools

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Stars 3,408

Freshness 2d ago

Issue Health 55%

Contributors 139

Dependents 5

Forks 573

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License Apache-2.0

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Stars: 3,408
Forks: 573
Open Issues: 854
Closed Issues: 1,063
Contributors: 139
Dependents: 5
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last Commit: 2d ago

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From the README

# ContextForge

> An open source registry and proxy that federates MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs with centralized governance, discovery, and observability. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

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**ContextForge** is an open source registry and proxy that federates tools, agents, and APIs into one clean endpoint for your AI clients. It provides centralized governance, discovery, and observability across your AI infrastructure:

- **Tools Gateway** — MCP, REST, gRPC-to-MCP translation, and TOON compression
- **Agent Gateway** — A2A protocol, OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic agent routing
- **API Gateway** — Rate limiting, auth, retries, and reverse proxy for REST services
- **Plugin Extensibility** — 40+ plugins for additional transports, protocols, and integrations
- **Observability** — OpenTelemetry tracing with Phoenix, Jaeger, Zipkin, and other OTLP backends

It runs as a fully compliant MCP server, deployable via

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