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IBM ContextForge

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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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Bearer Token
Auth
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Streaming
No
Push

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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.

OrchestrationInfrastructure & OpsSecuritymcp-gatewaymcp-registrya2aapi-gatewayopentelemetryself-hostedopen-sourceibm
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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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nameIBM ContextForge
providerIBM
urlhttps://ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/
categoriesorchestration · infrastructure · security
accessapi · mcp · cli
authbearer
streamingtrue
pushfalse
verifiedtrue
tagsmcp-gateway, mcp-registry, a2a, api-gateway, opentelemetry, self-hosted, open-source, ibm
skills
mcp-federationMCP Server FederationRegisters and federates many MCP servers and bundles th…
rest-grpc-to-mcpREST And gRPC AdaptersWraps REST APIs and gRPC services as MCP tools with aut…
a2a-agent-gatewayA2A Agent GatewayRoutes calls to external A2A, OpenAI-compatible, and An…
governance-observabilityGovernance And ObservabilityApplies JWT auth, retries, and rate limits, and exports…