Agent Gateway
Next-generation agentic proxy for AI agents and MCP servers. Routes, authenticates, and observes agent traffic across multiple MCP backends. 2,653 GitHub stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“Next-generation agentic proxy for AI agents and MCP servers. Routes, authenticates, and observes agent traffic across multiple MCP backends. 2,653 stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"agentgateway": {
"command": "agentgateway",
"args": [
"serve",
"--config",
"/etc/agentgateway/config.yaml"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"agentgateway": {
"command": "agentgateway",
"args": [
"serve",
"--config",
"/etc/agentgateway/config.yaml"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"agentgateway": {
"command": "agentgateway",
"args": [
"serve",
"--config",
"/etc/agentgateway/config.yaml"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"agentgateway": {
"command": "agentgateway",
"args": [
"serve",
"--config",
"/etc/agentgateway/config.yaml"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"agentgateway": {
"command": "agentgateway",
"args": [
"serve",
"--config",
"/etc/agentgateway/config.yaml"
]
}
}
}
5 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 2,653 GitHub stars.
- 100 commits on main in the last 30 days. Top cadence among MCP gateway tooling.
- Apache-2.0 license.
- Go binary; no runtime dependencies.
- Policy-based authentication and routing.
- Built-in metrics and traffic inspection.
- Adds an additional process between agent and MCPs; latency may matter for chatty workloads.
- Policy configuration has a learning curve; YAML-driven setup.
- Community-maintained; no commercial vendor backing.
Gateway acts as the auth boundary for downstream MCPs. Misconfigured policies can either over-permit (every backend reachable) or break agent flows entirely. Validate policy changes against a staging gateway before promoting to production.
Multi-MCP setups where one agent needs to talk to many MCP servers; teams that want auth and observability in front of MCPs; production agent stacks that need policy-based routing and rate limiting.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this2,653 stars on agentgateway/agentgateway. 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with Docker MCP Gateway, modelcontextprotocol/registry, MCP Inspector for the MCP infrastructure layer. Agent Gateway owns the multi-backend-routing slot.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.6editorial | 2,653 | — | MAY 9, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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