IBM's open-source gateway and registry that federates MCP, A2A and REST/gRPC APIs behind one governed endpoint.
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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 an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 4.6k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in October 2026.
pip install mcp-contextforge-gateway
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ContextForge (IBM MCP Context Forge) vs. the alternatives #
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