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The mcp-context-forge MCP server was last committed 15d ago and has 177 contributors. Issue health: 74% of issues resolved. AgentRank freshness score reflects real-time maintenance activity.

mcp-context-forge MCP Server

IBM/mcp-context-forge

Score: 77.9 ↓ 8.1% Rank #2451 Monitoring

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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.

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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 #2451 out of 24846 indexed tools.

In the top 10% of all indexed tools.

Has 4,610 GitHub stars.

Has 177 contributors.

Ecosystem

Python Apache-2.0 1 pypi/wk

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

Score Breakdown

Stars 15% 4,610

4,610 stars → well-known project

Freshness 25% 15d ago

Last commit 15d ago → recently updated

Issue Health 25% 74%

2767/3736 issues closed → decent issue management

Contributors 10% 177

177 contributors → active community

Dependents 25% 0

No dependents → no downstream usage

npm Downloads N/A

PyPI Downloads 13% 1/wk

1 weekly installs → early adoption

Forks 921

Description Detailed

License Apache-2.0

Weights: Freshness 20% · Issue Health 20% · Dependents 22% · Stars 10% · Contributors 8% · How we score →

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Dependents medium impact

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Details

Stars: 4,610
Forks: 921
Open Issues: 969
Closed Issues: 2,767
Contributors: 177
Dependents: —
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
Last Commit: 15d 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 PyPI or Docke

Read full README on GitHub →