Mcp Context Forge
An open source registry and proxy for federating MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs.
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About Mcp Context Forge
Mcp Context Forge is an open source registry and proxy that federates any Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, A2A server, or REST/gRPC API, providing centralized governance, discovery, and observability. It optimizes agent and tool calling, and supports plugins.
Description summarised by AI from the sources listed below.
Key features
- Federation across multiple MCP and REST services
- A2A (Agent-to-Agent) integration for external AI agents
- gRPC-to-MCP translation via automatic reflection-based service discovery
- Virtualization of legacy APIs as MCP-compliant tools and servers
- Transport over HTTP, JSON-RPC, WebSocket, SSE (with configurable keepalive), stdio and streamable-HTTP
- An Admin UI for real-time management, configuration, and log monitoring
- Built-in auth, retries, and rate-limiting with user-scoped OAuth tokens and unconditional X-Upstream-Authorization header support
- OpenTelemetry observability with Phoenix, Jaeger, Zipkin, and other OTLP backends
Use cases
- Federating MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs
- Optimizing agent and tool calling
- Supporting plugins
Pricing
Pricing model: Open source. Detailed plans are not recorded; check the official website for current prices.
Pricing from the tool's own website.
