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TheLunarCompany/lunar

TheLunarCompany/lunar is an MIT-licensed, open-source agent-native MCP gateway and registry from Lunar.dev that gives platform teams one governance, observability, and policy layer across every MCP server, agent skill, and tool an organization exposes, so they can run multi-vendor agent stacks at production scale without losing visibility or control.

Score8.4
Popularity8.5
Riskmedium
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness9.0
Novelty8.0
Momentum8.0
Maturity6.7
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.9
Setup ease6.4

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Why it matters

Useful for AI platform engineers, agent operators, and security teams who need a single MCP gateway to govern, observe, and policy every MCP server, agent skill, and tool in an organization, so they can run multi-vendor agent stacks at production scale without losing visibility, audit trails, or the ability to revoke a single tool without breaking the whole agent fleet.

Who should use it

AI platform engineers who need a single gateway to govern and observe every MCP server an organization exposes to agentsagent operators who run multi-vendor agent stacks and want per-tool quotas, audit logs, and a single revocation pointsecurity teams who need policy enforcement, prompt auditing, and tool-level access control across an entire MCP fleetopen-source contributors who want an MIT-licensed alternative to closed-source agent gateway SaaS

Who should skip it

Skip or sandbox it if you cannot review permissions, data access, and failure modes before use.

Risk explanation

It is a central MCP gateway that sits between every agent and every MCP server in an organization, so review what prompts, payloads, and credentials the gateway logs, scope which tools it can revoke, and confirm the audit log retention matches your compliance requirements before pointing production agents at it.

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Closest alternatives / related signals

mcp-gatewayagent-governancemcpagent-platformpolicyobservabilityopen-sourcemit