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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 wi
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IBM/mcp-context-forge is an open-source project by IBM: 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.. Indexed here so it can be found — not resold.
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From the project's own README (excerpt, reproduced for discovery under its Apache-2.0 license):
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.
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 Docker, and scales to multi-cluster environments on Kubernetes with Redis-backed federation and caching.
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05Versions
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| 0.0.0 | stable | Sep 28, 2026 | Indexed listing — see the upstream repository for real release history. |