- Protocol
- MCP Gateways
- Type
- Server
- Stars
- 6k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last push
- Nov 8, 2026
agentgateway MCP Gateways server
Rust proxy for AI agents and MCP servers
About agentgateway
agentgateway is an open-source MCP Gateways server by agentgateway, written mainly in Rust. Rust proxy for AI agents and MCP servers. It has 6,033 GitHub stars and uses the Apache-2.0 license, and its code was last pushed on Nov 8, 2026.
New to MCP Gateways? Our MCP Gateways guide explains how it works and lists other projects built on it.
At a glance
- Protocol
- MCP Gateways
- Type
- Server
- Language
- Rust
- License
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 6,033
- Last push
- Nov 8, 2026
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Questions about agentgateway
What is agentgateway?
Rust proxy for AI agents and MCP servers It is listed as a MCP Gateways server, maintained in the agentgateway/agentgateway repository on GitHub.
How do I install agentgateway?
The README in agentgateway/agentgateway has the setup steps. Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway.git and follow its instructions.
Is agentgateway an official MCP Gateways project?
No. It is a community project built on MCP Gateways, not published by the organisation that runs the protocol.
What license does agentgateway use?
It is published under the Apache-2.0 license. Check the license file in the repository before using it commercially.
Is agentgateway still maintained?
Its code was last pushed on Nov 8, 2026, and it had 6,033 GitHub stars when we checked on 2026-11-08. Look at recent issues and releases in the repository for a fuller picture.
README
Agentgateway is an open source proxy built on AI-native protocols (MCP & A2A) that provides drop-in security, observability, and governance for agent-to-LLM, agent-to-tool, and agent-to-agent communication across any framework and environment.
<br> <div align="center"> <img alt="agentgateway UI" src="img/architecture.svg" width="800"> </div> <br>Intro to Agentgateway Video
<br> <div align="center"> <a href="https://youtu.be/SomP92JWPmE"> <img alt="Agentgateway Intro Video" src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/SomP92JWPmE/hqdefault.jpg"> </a> </div> <br>Key Features
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LLM Gateway<br> Route traffic to major LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, and more) through a unified OpenAI-compatible API with budget and spend controls, prompt enrichment, load balancing, and failover.
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MCP Gateway<br> Connect LLMs to tools and external data sources via MCP with tool federation, stdio/HTTP/SSE/Streamable HTTP transports, OpenAPI integration, and OAuth authentication.
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A2A Gateway<br> Enable secure agent-to-agent communication using A2A, with capability discovery, modality negotiation, and task collaboration.
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Inference Routing<br> Intelligent routing to self-hosted models using Kubernetes Inference Gateway extensions, with decisions based on GPU utilization, KV cache, LoRA adapters, and queue depth.
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Guardrails<br> Multi-layered content filtering with regex, OpenAI moderation, AWS Bedrock Guardrails, Google Model Armor, and custom webhooks.
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Security & Observability<br> Auth (JWT, API keys, OAuth), fine-grained RBAC with CEL policy engine, rate limiting, TLS, and OpenTelemetry metrics/logs/tracing.
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Getting Started
- Standalone Quickstart — Get started with agentgateway in minutes.
- Kubernetes Quickstart — Deploy on Kubernetes using the built-in controller and Gateway API.
Documentation
Depending on your deployment environment, check out the following docs:
- agentgateway.dev/docs: For deployments without the full Kubernetes controller, driven by flat yaml config.
- agentgateway.dev/docs/kubernetes/latest: For Kubernetes-based deployments using the built-in Kubernetes controller and Gateway API support.
Agentgateway has a built-in UI for you to explore agentgateway connecting agent-to-agent or agent-to-tool:
<div align="center"> <img alt="agentgateway UI" src="img/UI-homepage.png"> </div>Sponsors
<table> <tr> <td align="center" width="33.3%"> <a href="https://blacksmith.sh/"> <picture> <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentgateway/agentgateway/main/img/blacksmith-light.svg"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentgateway/agentgateway/main/img/blacksmith.svg" alt="Blacksmith" height="48"> </picture> </a> </td> </tr> </table>Thank you to our sponsors for helping to fund the development of agentgateway!
Contributing
For instructions on how to contribute to the agentgateway project, see the CONTRIBUTION.md file.
Community Meetings
To join a community meeting, add the agentgateway calendar to your Google account. Then, you can find event details on the calendar.
Recordings of the community meetings will be published on our google drive.
Roadmap
agentgateway is currently in active development. If you'd like a feature that's missing, open an issue in our GitHub repo.
Contributors
Thanks to all contributors who are helping to make agentgateway better.
<a href="https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway/graphs/contributors"> <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=agentgateway/agentgateway" /> </a><div align="center"> <img src="img/lf-stacked-color.png" width="300" alt="Linux Foundation logo"/> <p>Agentgateway is a <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/">Linux Foundation</a> project.</p> </div>
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