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ContextForge (IBM MCP Context Forge)

IBM's open-source gateway and registry that federates MCP, A2A and REST/gRPC APIs behind one governed endpoint.

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Best for

Platform teams that need one governed entry point for many MCP servers, agents and APIs.

About ContextForge (IBM MCP Context Forge)

ContextForge, from IBM, is an open-source registry and proxy that federates tools, agents and APIs into one endpoint for AI clients. It combines a tools gateway (MCP, REST and gRPC-to-MCP translation), an agent gateway for A2A and OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible routing, an API gateway with rate limiting, auth and retries, more than 40 plugins, and OpenTelemetry tracing.

ContextForge (IBM MCP Context Forge) is listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 4.7k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.

Install

pip install mcp-contextforge-gateway
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