- CollectionTool Access & Integration
- Classificationagent-native
- LicenseApache-2.0
- MCPAvailable
- Agent SkillAvailable
- InterfacesAgent Skill · MCP · REST · CLI · A2A · openapi · http · API
- Verified2026-10-13
What it does
The MCP Gateway & Registry (agentic-community) is an open-source control plane for organizational AI assets: MCP servers, A2A agents, skills, and custom entity types. Official docs: it began as one secure entry to many MCP servers and grew into a general AI asset registry on the same access-control and audit model.
The gateway is the data plane (nginx: TLS, auth validation, routing). The registry is the control plane (FastAPI: inventory, access model, audit, embeddings). An auth server talks to Keycloak, Entra ID, Okta, Auth0, Cognito, or PingFederate. By default, A2A discovery and ACL happen in the registry and agents then talk peer-to-peer; reverse-proxy mode can force A2A through the gateway.
Distinctness: hosted MCP Gateway is a commercial one-URL tools/skills/sandboxes platform (mcpgateway-sdk). ToolHive runs MCP servers in secure containers. ContextForge federates MCP+A2A+REST/gRPC with UAID routing. This project is the agentic-community enterprise registry (IdP, virtual MCP servers, 3LO egress auth, admission scanning, external-registry federation).
Agent-facing interfaces
- Interaction pattern: CLI + MCP gateway
- Catalog protocols: Agent Skill, MCP, REST, CLI, A2A, openapi, http, API
- MCP: ✅ Available — agents and coding assistants connect through the gateway as MCP clients.
- Agent Skill: ✅ Available as in-repo skills (not npx skills add).
- Onboarding type:
mcp
How agents onboard
Interaction pattern: CLI + MCP gateway
git clone https://github.com/agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry.git
cd mcp-gateway-registry
cp .env.example .env
# Set required secrets (KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD, SECRET_KEY, …) — see docs/configuration.md
./build_and_run.sh --prebuilt
See the full onboarding section in the dossier.
Protocol surface
| Interface | Detail |
|---|---|
| MCP / HTTPS | nginx data plane |
| REST / OpenAPI | Registry API (api/openapi.json) |
| CLI | registry_management.py; ./build_and_run.sh --prebuilt |
| Deploy | Docker Compose, Helm (EKS), Terraform (ECS) |
| A2A | Discovery + optional reverse-proxy mode |
Verification
Last verified 2026-10-13.
Sources:
- https://api.github.com/repos/agentic-community/mcp-gateway-registry