# MCPProxy MCP Server

Local-first MCP proxy with BM25 tool discovery, security scanning, quarantine & ~99% token savings

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled MCPProxy yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

## Known issues

**99 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 12.

### Most discussed

### Improve retrieve_tools diagnostics for annotation filters and automation-critical tools

### Summary

I am using MCPProxy as a local lightweight gateway for many MCP servers, with `retrieve_tools` as the main way to keep tool schemas out of the agent context until needed. This works very well overall, but I ran into a failure mode where a tool existed and was callable, yet was effectively hidden from routine automation because annotation-based filtering removed it without a very actionable explanation.

I would like to propose a small set of discovery/diagnostic improvements rather 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/969) · 2026-08-10 · open · outside contributor · 9 comments

### OAuth regression for runlayer backed servers

I was helping someone set mcpproxy up, and they ran into these errors to oauth:

```
{
  "detail": [
    {
      "type": "missing",
      "loc": [
        "query",
        "resource"
      ],
      "msg": "Field required",
      "input": null
    }
  ]
}
```

This is a regression of https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/155

I had been running off the version on https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/pull/255 and was able to reproduce once i merged main.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/271) · 2026-01-21 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments

### [Bug] MCP server connection issues

Some MCP servers aren't very stable. It might be their implementation issues or different protocol versions/approach to development.

One of the most annoying but also a very desirable is Jetbrains MCP. If i add SSE endpoint its just doesn't loads any tools. If i try stdio - it loads, but might lose the connection. Such connection issues can lead to dashboard freeze, which is a not a big deal most of the time. Application might even hang and only forced kill helps.

Im using xubuntu 25.04, runni

[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/105) · 2025-10-27 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Listen port config setting being ignored

`/Users/alex/.mcpproxy/mcp_config.json`

```
{
  "listen": "127.0.0.1:30080",
 
```

Core is still runs at port 8080.

It was working before, but not on `mcpproxy version v0.9.9`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/85) · 2025-10-15 · closed · external user · 9 comments

### Avoid storing credentials in mcpproxy.json in plaintext

Right now, if you need things like API keys, hostnames, or anything else sensitive, you have to store it in plaintext in the config files.  This means you can't easily store mcp_proxy.json in version control.

I'd love to be able to use something like macOS Keychain, 1password, etc. I could imagine having templating in command, env, etc, and expose things that way. I've used keyring-rs bindings for node before. I can't tell if this is golang bindings for it, or just using the same keyring name: 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/58) · 2025-09-13 · closed · outside contributor · 8 comments

### Most recent

### [bug] this is a test feedback message

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/1130) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/1129) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [other] this is a test feedback message

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/1126) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [feature] this is a test feedback message

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/1122) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [feature] this is a test feedback message

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/1119) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [bug] this is a test feedback message

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/1118) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [feature] this is a test feedback message

> [!NOTE]
> This issue contains **verbatim text submitted anonymously** via the in-app `mcpproxy feedback` form. It was relayed automatically and was **not written by the issue author shown above**.

## User Feedback

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/smart-mcp-proxy/mcpproxy-go/issues/1116) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for MCPProxy](/mcp/mcpproxy/issues) — of 99 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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- 99 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
- No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
- If you use MCPProxy, write down what actually happened so the next agent pays less

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