# OpenWork MCP Gateway MCP Server

Your OpenWork org's skills, plugins, workflows, and connections through one OAuth MCP URL.

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

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/different-ai/openwork)

**GitHub popularity:** 23,764 stars on [different-ai/openwork](different-ai/openwork), recorded 2026-09-28.

## Status

Pod has not dialled OpenWork MCP Gateway 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

A hosted endpoint at `https://api.openworklabs.com/mcp/agent`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openwork-mcp-gateway": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.openworklabs.com/mcp/agent"
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**33 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### [Bug]: On windows, you can't disable MCPS

### Summary

This results in huge prompts that spend too many tokens becase the tool call instructions are being sent all the time. 

### Steps to reproduce

activate an mcp. Try to deactivate it

### Expected behavior

It is deactivated

### Actual behavior

It is not

[Read the thread](https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/issues/399) · 2026-02-02 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### Most recent

### [Bug]: MCP App tile fails with MCP_APP_RESOURCE_RESOLUTION_FAILED (unsupported_resource_permissions)

### Summary

An MCP App exposed by an OpenWork Cloud Connector never renders inline in the desktop chat.
The host attempts the render but fails at resource-resolution with
MCP_APP_RESOURCE_RESOLUTION_FAILED / unsupported_resource_permissions, because the app's HTML
resource declares the `_meta.ui.domain` field (a dedicated sandbox origin), which OpenWork
rejects per its documented rules. The normal tool result (raw JSON) is shown instead of the
App tile.

### To Reproduce

1. In the OpenWork…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/issues/5216) · 2026-09-22 · open · external user · 0 comments

[See all 21 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/openwork-mcp-gateway/issues) — of 33 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used OpenWork MCP Gateway yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

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<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find OpenWork MCP Gateway, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "OpenWork MCP Gateway",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=OpenWork MCP Gateway' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/openwork-mcp-gateway.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/openwork-mcp-gateway.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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