# MCP Gateway MCP Server
Universal MCP gateway with Meta-MCP discovery, routing, and REST API capabilities.
**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.
## Status
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## Connect
Published as `ghcr.io/mikkoparkkola/mcp-gateway:3.5.0` on oci. Runs locally.
## Known issues
**11 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 8.
### Most discussed
### [FEATURE] Allow operators to trim the exposed gateway_* meta-tool surface (reduce AI distraction)
### Summary
When `mcp-gateway` is used as the backend in front of an AI agent (OpenClaw / Claude / Gemini, etc.), **every authenticated client sees all 17 `gateway_*` meta-tools in `tools/list`, regardless of role or actual need.** Most deployments only need a small subset; the rest (stats, cost report, playbook, kill/revive server, profile management, reload, set_state, etc.) are either irrelevant or outright dangerous to expose to a general-purpose agent.
A bloated tool surface measurably hu
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/449) · 2026-08-25 · open · external user · 2 comments
### [BUG] gateway.yaml: permission 0600 causes infinite restart loop with misleading error + state-file data loss
# gateway.yaml permission 0600 causes infinite restart loop with misleading error
**Version**: mcp-gateway 3.4.0 (ghcr.io/mikkoparkkola/mcp-gateway:latest)
## Summary
When the mounted `gateway.yaml` is not readable by the in-container user, the gateway enters an **infinite restart loop** and logs a misleading error that gives no hint about the actual cause.
## Environment
- Container: `ghcr.io/mikkoparkkola/mcp-gateway:latest` (3.4.0)
- Started with read-only bind mount of config:
```
-
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/437) · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 4 comments
### Security: Exposed API Key Detected (openai)
## Security Notice: Exposed API Key Detected
Hi there! This is an automated, good-faith security notification.
This repository appears to contain an **exposed OPENAI API key** that could lead to unauthorized charges on your account.
### Details
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **File** | `src/security/firewall/redactor.rs` |
| **Key Type** | OpenAI Project Key |
| **Severity** | CRITICAL |
| **Cost Risk** | GPT-4 calls can cost $0.01-0.10+ per request. Drains fast. |
| **Detected** | re
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/377) · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment
### Security: Exposed API Key Detected (openai)
## Security Notice: Exposed API Key Detected
Hi there! This is an automated, good-faith security notification.
This repository appears to contain an **exposed OPENAI API key** that could lead to unauthorized charges on your account.
### Details
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| **File** | `src/security/firewall/redactor.rs` |
| **Key Type** | OpenAI Project Key |
| **Severity** | CRITICAL |
| **Cost Risk** | GPT-4 calls can cost $0.01-0.10+ per request. Drains fast. |
| **Detected** | 20
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/376) · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment
### [BUG] OAuth discovery -- wrong path construction
## Description
For the OAuth login flow fails.
## Steps to Reproduce
```yaml
backends:
influxdb-docs:
http_url: "https://influxdb-docs.mcp.kapa.ai"
oauth:
enabled: true
```
## Expected Behavior
This should work, other MCP clients can handle that.
## Actual Behavior
It fails with:
```text
2026-07-09T16:00:34.754215Z INFO mcp_gateway::gateway::server::warmstart: Warm-starting ALL 1 backends (tool prefetch)
2026-07-09T16:00:34.754239Z INFO
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/346) · 2026-07-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment
### Most recent
### [BUG] OAuth URL misses resources (maybe?)
## Description
For the OAuth login flow fails.
## Steps to Reproduce
```yaml
backends:
influxdb-docs:
http_url: "https://influxdb-docs.mcp.kapa.ai"
oauth:
enabled: true
```
Then try to log in using Google.
## Expected Behavior
This should work, other MCP clients can handle that.
## Actual Behavior
It fails, funnily with an upstream server error (I think on the google side). Then `mcp-gateway` gets this callback:
`http://localhost:/o
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/369) · 2026-07-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment
### [BUG] `tool list` doesn't work, thinks its about capabilities?
## Description
```
$ mcp-gateway -c gateway.yaml tool list
Error: Failed to load capabilities from 'capabilities': Configuration error: Capabilities directory does not exist: capabilities
```
I don't see why capabilities should feature here, but lets roll with it. I disabled capabilities in the config file, but no change:
```
$ cat gateway.yaml | yamlpp-load-dump -D JSON::PP | jq .capabilities
{
"enabled": false
}
$ mcp-gateway -c gateway.yaml tool list
Error: Failed to load capabilities fr
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/225) · 2026-06-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment
### gateway_search_tools declares outputSchema but wrap_tool_success never returns structuredContent
## Bug
gateway_search_tools is the only meta-tool that declares an outputSchema (via search_tools_output_schema() in src/gateway/meta_mcp_tool_defs.rs). However, the response path for all meta-tools goes through wrap_tool_success in src/gateway/meta_mcp_helpers.rs, which always builds a ToolsCallResult with content: [Content::Text { ... }] and never populates structuredContent.
Per the MCP spec (2025-06-18), when a tool advertises outputSchema, the response must include structuredContent. Clie
[Read the thread](https://github.com/MikkoParkkola/mcp-gateway/issues/158) · 2026-04-27 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
[See all 11 reports Pod holds for MCP Gateway](/mcp/mcp-gateway/issues).
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