# 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 call

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/mcp-context-forge
- **Author**: IBM
- **Category**: MCP Servers
- **Latest version**: `v1.0.2` (2026-05-26)
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Source**: https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge
- **Homepage**: https://ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/
- **Language**: Python
- **GitHub**: 3,604 stars, 629 forks
- **Registry**: github
- **Tags**: `agents`, `ai`, `api-gateway`, `asyncio`, `authentication-middleware`, `devops`, `docker`, `fastapi`, `model-context-protocol`, `python`

## Description

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.

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `v1.0.2` | 2026-05-26 | High | ## [1.0.2] - 2026-05-25 - Admin UI Rewrite, Database Migrations, Security Enhancements, and Bug Fixes  ### Overview  Release 1.0.2 consolidates **59 PRs** focused on **Admin UI rewrite completion**, **database migration improvements**, **security enhancements**, and **bug fixes**. This release completes the React-based Admin UI migration, strengthens database schema management with Alembic, enhances OAuth flows, and improves multi-replica deployment reliability:  - **🖥️ Admin UI Rewrite** - Rea |
| `v1.0.1` | 2026-05-13 | High | ## [1.0.1] - 2026-05-12 - Security Hardening, UI Improvements, and Bug Fixes  ### Overview  Release 1.0.1 consolidates **59 PRs** focused on **security hardening**, **UI/UX improvements**, **authentication enhancements**, and **bug fixes**. This release addresses pentesting findings, improves OAuth flows, enhances the Admin UI rewrite, and strengthens RBAC enforcement:  - **🔐 Security & Auth** - CSRF token validation, comprehensive password policy, nonce-based CSP, UAID cross-gateway auth forwa |
| `v1.0.0` | 2026-05-01 | High | # [1.0.0] - Release Notice ## [1.0.0] - 2026-04-30 - General Availability - Technical Debt, Security Hardening, Catalog Improvements, A2A Improvements, MCP Standard Review and Sync  ### Overview  Release 1.0.0 marks the **General Availability** of ContextForge, consolidating **93 PRs** with production-ready features, security hardening, and comprehensive testing. This release focuses on **auth and OAuth improvements**, **Rust runtime maturity**, **plugin framework enhancements**, **React-based A |
| `v1.0.0-RC-3` | 2026-04-14 | High | # ContextForge v1.0.0-RC-3  **Release Candidate 3 — Auth Hardening, Plugin Multi-Tenancy, Rust Runtime & Multi-Arch**  Final pre-1.0 candidate consolidating **242 commits** and **294 closed issues**.  ## Highlights  - **🔐 Auth & RBAC** — Token-teams narrowing across Layer 2 RBAC, session-token scope support, OAuth claim validation, JWKS verification for virtual-server MCP, SSO provider fixes (ADFS, Ollama OIDC, email_verified-optional), SSE/message endpoint auth hardening, service-account suppo |
| `v1.0.0-RC2` | 2026-03-09 | Low | # v1.0.0-RC2 - Hardening, Admin UI Polish, Plugin Framework & Quality  Release Candidate 2 focuses on **security hardening**, **Admin UI polish**, **plugin framework decoupling**, and **quality improvements** with **148 issues resolved**.  ## Major Achievements  **Release 1.0.0-RC2** hardens ContextForge for production deployments:  - **Security Hardening** - SSRF strict defaults, OIDC id_token verification, OAuth secret at-rest protection, WebSocket/reverse-proxy gating, token scoping default-d |
| `v1.0.0-RC1` | 2026-02-18 | Low | # v1.0.0-RC1 - Security Hardening, Enterprise Controls & Quality  This release delivers **enterprise security hardening**, **comprehensive RBAC improvements**, and **production-quality enforcement** with **189 issues resolved**.  ## 🏆 Major Achievements  **Release 1.0.0-RC1** hardens ContextForge for enterprise production deployments:  - **🔐 31 Features** - Enterprise security controls, unified policy decision point (Cedar/OPA), tool circuit breakers, session affinity, zero-config TLS, |
| `v1.0.0-BETA-2` | 2026-01-24 | Low | This release delivers **massive performance improvements**, **enterprise-scale reliability**, and **production-hardening** with **227 issues resolved**.  ## 🏆 Major Achievements  **Release 1.0.0-BETA-2** represents a transformational upgrade for production deployments:  - **⚡ 100+ Performance Optimizations** - N+1 query elimination, connection pooling (PgBouncer), caching (L1/L2), Granian HTTP server, orjson serialization - **🔧 80+ Bug Fixes** - RBAC, pagination, OAuth, Admin UI, multi- |
| `v1.0.0-BETA-1` | 2025-12-16 | Low | This release marks the **first beta milestone toward 1.0.0 GA**, delivering **multi-architecture container support**, **gRPC-to-MCP protocol translation**, **air-gapped deployment capabilities**, and **significant performance improvements** with **25+ issues resolved**.  ## 🎉 Announcements  ### 🖥️ ContextForge Desktop App  We're excited to announce the **ContextForge Desktop** application - a native desktop client for managing MCP servers and gateways:  - **Repository:** [contextforge- |
| `v0.9.0` | 2025-11-09 | Low | This release delivers **detailed internal observability**, **major performance improvements, compression & pagination**, **REST API passthrough**, **Ed25519 certificate signing**, and **critical multi-tenancy fixes** with **60+ issues resolved** and **50+ PRs merged**.   ## 🏆 Major Achievements  **Release 0.9.0** represents a major milestone in production readiness and operational excellence:  ✅ **📊 Built-in Observability Platform** - Self-contained performance monitoring with interacti |
| `v0.8.0` | 2025-10-08 | Low | ## v0.8.0 - 2025-10-07 - Advanced OAuth, Plugin Ecosystem & MCP Registry  This release focuses on **Advanced OAuth Integration, Plugin Ecosystem & MCP Registry** with **50+ issues resolved** and **47 PRs merged**, bringing significant improvements across authentication, plugin framework, and developer experience. Building on the enterprise multi-tenancy foundation from v0.7.0, this release expands MCP Gateway's capabilities with advanced OAuth flows, a comprehensive plugin ecosystem, and enhan |

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