mcp-gateway

Overview

MCP Gateway acts as an intermediary between LLMs and other MCP servers, centralizing and enhancing AI infrastructure. It manages server configurations, intercepts requests to sanitize sensitive information, provides a unified interface for interacting with proxied MCPs, and includes security scanners to analyze server reputation and risks. The project supports various guardrail plugins for PII masking, token masking, and custom security policies, with options for monitoring and tracing tool calls.

Try asking AI

After installing, here are 5 things you can ask your AI assistant:

• get_metadata

  Provides information about all available proxied MCPs

  Try:What MCP servers are available?Try:List all available MCP tools
• run_tool

  Executes capabilities from any proxied MCP after sanitizing the request and response

  Try:Read the current directory using filesystem MCPTry:Create a file with MCP gateway

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Installation

pip install mcp-gateway

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-gateway": {
      "command": "<python path>",
      "args": [
        "-m",
        "mcp_gateway.server",
        "--mcp-json-path",
        "<path to claude_desktop_config>",
        "--plugin",
        "basic"
      ],
      "servers": {
        "filesystem": {
          "command": "npx",
          "args": [
            "-y",
            "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
            "."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

FAQ

What is MCP Gateway?

MCP Gateway is an intermediary solution that orchestrates multiple MCP servers with enhanced security features, monitoring capabilities, and plugin support.

What plugins are available?

Built-in plugins include 'basic' for token masking, 'presidio' for PII masking, and 'lasso' for comprehensive security scanning and policy enforcement.

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