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mcp-context-forge

IBM's registry + proxy federating MCP, A2A and REST/gRPC into one governed endpoint: discovery, auth, rate limits, guardrails, OTel tracing, 40+ plugins — scales to K8s with Redis federation.

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The enterprise answer for the TOOL plane: where model gateways govern LLM calls, ContextForge governs MCP servers, A2A agents and legacy REST — wrapping the lot as one compliant MCP endpoint with RBAC and tracing. When NOT: a laptop with three MCP servers — this is platform infrastructure (Postgres, Redis, K8s) with real ops weight, and the 0.x release train moves fast enough that upgrades need reading the notes.

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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 Docker, and scales to multi-cluster environments on Kubernetes with Redis-backed federation and caching.

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Resource Description
5-Minute Setup Get started fast — uvx, Docker, Compose, or local dev
Getting Help Support options, FAQ, community channels
Issue Guide How to file bugs, request features, contribute
Full Documentation Complete guides, tutorials, API reference
Deprecations Deprecated runtime paths and migration guidance

Overview & Goals

ContextForge is an open source registry and proxy that federates any [Model Context Protocol](

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