IBM/mcp-context-forge

An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

4.6k stars · 922 forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 35 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 95
Human commits, 90 days: 284
Human commits, 365 days: 2.1k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 35
Last release: Sep 28, 2026 (16 days ago)
Median PR merge time: 3 days

Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 15, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 7
Authors for 80% of commits: 13
Contributors: 170

Top committers

msureshkumar88: 13% of commits
prakhar-singh1928: 10% of commits
lucarlig: 8% of commits
madhu-mohan-jaishankar: 7% of commits
jonpspri: 6% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence medium

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jun 23, 2025 to Jun 25, 2025: about 200 more stars than usual, peak 111 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 15, 2025 to Aug 19, 2025: about 316 more stars than usual, peak 176 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 25, 2025 to Aug 31, 2025: about 698 more stars than usual, peak 233 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jan 28, 2026 to Jan 28, 2026: about 40 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 3, 2026 to Aug 5, 2026: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

mcp-contextforge-gateway (PYPI): latest 1.0.11, published Sep 28, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

Sources: GitHub: IBM/mcp-context-forge, deps.dev: PyPI mcp-contextforge-gateway

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 15, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 6 hours ago · method 2026.10.2