IBM/mcp-context-forge

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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This project helps AI developers and architects consolidate various AI agents, tools, and APIs into a single, managed access point. It takes disparate communication protocols (like MCP, A2A, REST, gRPC) and presents them as a unified, governed endpoint. This allows developers to easily integrate and manage diverse AI capabilities within their applications.

3,393 stars. Actively maintained with 191 commits in the last 30 days.

Use this if you are building AI applications and need a centralized way to discover, govern, and manage interactions with various AI models, tools, and services, especially across different communication protocols.

Not ideal if you are a non-developer seeking a no-code solution for directly interacting with AI models, as this is an infrastructure tool for AI system architects and developers.

AI-infrastructure API-management agent-orchestration AI-governance system-integration
No Package No Dependents
Maintenance 22 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 15 / 25
Community 23 / 25

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3,393

Forks

570

Language

Python

License

Apache-2.0

Last pushed

Mar 11, 2026

Commits (30d)

191

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