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  "id": "ibm-contextforge",
  "name": "ContextForge (IBM MCP Context Forge)",
  "category": "infrastructure",
  "summary": "IBM's open-source registry and proxy that federates MCP, A2A and REST/gRPC APIs into one endpoint with centralized governance, discovery, guardrails and observability.",
  "description": "Runs as a fully compliant MCP server, deployable via PyPI (`mcp-contextforge-gateway`, Python >=3.12,<3.14) or Docker, and scales to multi-cluster Kubernetes with Redis-backed federation and caching. Supports plugins. Latest release v1.1.0 (2026-10-20).",
  "url": "https://ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/",
  "repo": "https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge",
  "docs": "https://ibm.github.io/mcp-context-forge/",
  "tags": [
    "mcp",
    "a2a",
    "gateway",
    "registry",
    "proxy"
  ],
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "pricing": "open-source",
  "status": "active",
  "related": [
    "docker-mcp-gateway",
    "toolhive",
    "model-context-protocol",
    "a2a-protocol"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge",
    "https://pypi.org/project/mcp-contextforge-gateway/"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-24",
  "updated": "2026-10-24",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-24",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/ibm-contextforge/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/ibm-contextforge.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/ibm-contextforge.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/infrastructure/ibm-contextforge.json"
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}