agentgateway
An open-source Rust proxy for agent-to-LLM, agent-to-tool (MCP) and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic.
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Teams running many agents who need central policy, spend control and telemetry for LLM, tool and agent calls.
About agentgateway
agentgateway is an open-source proxy built on MCP and A2A that adds security, observability and governance to agent traffic. It routes LLM calls to major providers through an OpenAI-compatible API with budget controls, load balancing and failover; federates MCP tools across stdio, HTTP, SSE and streamable HTTP with OpenAPI integration and OAuth; and secures agent-to-agent communication.
agentgateway is an open-source project written primarily in Rust, with 5.0k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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