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MCP Gateway MCP Server

Universal MCP gateway with Meta-MCP discovery, routing, and REST API capabilities.

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Status

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[BUG] OAuth discovery -- wrong path construction

Description

For https://influxdb-docs.mcp.kapa.ai/ the OAuth login flow fails.

Steps to Reproduce

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:

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 <https://influxdb-docs.mcp.kapa.ai/> 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 · 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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