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.
IBM's ContextForge is a Python-based MCP server and gateway built on FastAPI that sits between AI clients and any combination of MCP servers, A2A agents, and REST or gRPC backends, federating them behind a single unified endpoint. It translates gRPC services to MCP tools via automatic server reflection, wraps legacy REST APIs as virtual MCP-compliant tools, and applies centralized governance including rate limiting, JWT and OAuth authentication, retries, and TOON prompt compression. Connections to Claude Desktop and other MCP clients work over HTTP, JSON-RPC, WebSocket, SSE, stdio, and streamable-HTTP transports. An Admin UI supports real-time configuration and log monitoring, including airgapped deployments. Observability is handled through OpenTelemetry with support for Phoenix, Jaeger, and Zipkin backends. The project ships over 40 plugins for additional transports and integrations, scales to multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with Redis-backed federation and caching, and is distributed via both PyPI and a Docker image hosted on GitHub Container Registry. Platform engineers and AI infrastructure teams managing multiple backend services or agent ecosystems are the primary audience.
- ✓Open-source license (Apache-2.0)
- ✓Actively maintained (<30d)
- ✓Healthy fork ratio
- ✓Clear description
- ✓Topics declared
- ✓Mature repo (>1y old)
claude mcp add mcp-context-forge -- uvx mcp-context-forge{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-context-forge": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-context-forge"]
}
}
}MCP Servers overview
What people ask about mcp-context-forge
What is IBM/mcp-context-forge?
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IBM/mcp-context-forge is mcp servers for the Claude AI ecosystem. 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. It has 3.9k GitHub stars and was last updated today.
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You can install mcp-context-forge by cloning the repository (https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge) or following the README instructions on GitHub. ClaudeWave also provides quick install blocks on this page.
Is IBM/mcp-context-forge safe to use?
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Our security agent has analyzed IBM/mcp-context-forge and assigned a Trust Score of 100/100 (tier: Verified). See the full breakdown of passed checks and flags on this page.
Who maintains IBM/mcp-context-forge?
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IBM/mcp-context-forge is maintained by IBM. The last recorded GitHub activity is from today, with 1183 open issues.
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Yes. On ClaudeWave you can browse similar mcp servers at /categories/mcp, sorted by popularity or recent activity.
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