Protocol
MCP Gateways
Type
Server
Stars
6k
License
Apache-2.0
Last push
Nov 8, 2026

agentgateway MCP Gateways server

by agentgateway• 6k•

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.

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At a glance

Protocol
MCP Gateways
Type
Server
Language
Rust
License
Apache-2.0
GitHub stars
6,033
Last push
Nov 8, 2026

Listed from public GitHub data, checked 2026-11-08. Not scanned by AgenticMart.

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

<div align="center"> <picture> <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentgateway/agentgateway/refs/heads/main/img/banner-light.svg" alt="agentgateway" width="400"> <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentgateway/agentgateway/refs/heads/main/img/banner-dark.svg" alt="agentgateway" width="400"> <img alt="agentgateway" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/agentgateway/agentgateway/refs/heads/main/img/banner-light.svg"> </picture> <div> <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache2.0-brightgreen.svg?style=flat" alt="License: Apache 2.0"> </a> <a href="https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/agentgateway/agentgateway.svg?style=flat&logo=github&label=Stars" alt="Stars"> </a> <a href="https://discord.gg/BdJpzaPjHv"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/discord/1346225185166065826?style=flat&label=Join%20Discord&color=6D28D9" alt="Discord"> </a> <a href="https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway/releases"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/agentgateway/agentgateway?style=flat&label=Latest%20Release&color=6D28D9" alt="Latest Release"> </a> <a href="https://deepwiki.com/agentgateway/agentgateway"><img src="https://deepwiki.com/badge.svg" alt="Ask DeepWiki"></a> <a href='https://codespaces.new/agentgateway/agentgateway'> <img src='https://github.com/codespaces/badge.svg' alt='Open in Github Codespaces' style='max-width: 100%;' height="20"> </a> </div> <div> The <strong>first complete</strong> connectivity solution for Agentic AI. </div> </div>

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A2A Gateway<br> Enable secure agent-to-agent communication using A2A, with capability discovery, modality negotiation, and task collaboration.

  • 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.

  • Guardrails<br> Multi-layered content filtering with regex, OpenAI moderation, AWS Bedrock Guardrails, Google Model Armor, and custom webhooks.

  • 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

Documentation

Depending on your deployment environment, check out the following docs:

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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