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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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ContextForge is IBM's MCP gateway, registry and proxy that federates MCP servers, A2A agents and REST/gRPC APIs into a single endpoint with auth, rate limiting, plugin support and OpenTelemetry tracing. Deployable via PyPI or Docker for centralized agent/tool governance.

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Federate multiple MCP servers behind one unified endpointConvert REST/gRPC APIs into MCP-compliant toolsRoute agent calls via A2A, OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic APIsCentralized discovery and registry of tools, prompts, resourcesAdd auth, rate limiting and retries to AI tool trafficTrace agent and LLM calls with OpenTelemetry backendsManage MCP servers via an admin UIAirgapped and multi-cluster enterprise MCP deploymentsExtend gateway behavior with plugins

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Language: Python
Frameworks: FastAPI · Pydantic · SQLAlchemy · Alembic · HTMX · Alpine.js · OpenTelemetry · Docker · Kubernetes · Jinja2 · Redis · uvicorn · pytest · gRPC

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