Runs a self-hosted gateway and registry that federates MCP servers, A2A agents, and REST/gRPC APIs behind one endpoint with auth, rate limits, and observability.
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- Governance And Observability
Use IBM ContextForge to apply JWT auth, retries, and rate limits: ‹what you need›
- MCP Server Federation
Use IBM ContextForge to register and federate many MCP servers: ‹what you need›
- A2A Agent Gateway
Use IBM ContextForge to route calls to external A2A, OpenAI-compatible, and Anthropic agents: ‹what you need›
Connect it over MCP
Connect IBM ContextForge as an MCP server, following its setup instructions at https://ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/latest/manage/api-usage/
Setup guide: ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/latest/manage/api-usage
Install the CLI
pip install mcp-contextforge-gateway
Setup guide: ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/latest/manage/api-usage
Call the API
Auth A bearer token from IBM
Setup guide: ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/latest/manage/api-usage
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- Access
- APIMCPCLI
- Auth
- Bearer Token
- Skills
- 4
Skills
MCP Server Federation
Registers and federates many MCP servers and bundles their tools into virtual servers exposed over one Streamable HTTP or SSE endpoint.
REST And gRPC Adapters
Wraps REST APIs and gRPC services as MCP tools with automatic JSON Schema extraction and reflection-based service discovery.
A2A Agent Gateway
Routes calls to external A2A, OpenAI-compatible, and Anthropic agents through the gateway alongside registered MCP tools.
Governance And Observability
Applies JWT auth, retries, and rate limits, and exports OpenTelemetry traces to Phoenix, Jaeger, Zipkin, or other OTLP backends.
