MCP gateways & registries
11 systems in the mcp gateways & registries category of the AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape, grouped by maturity tier.
Tier 3 — emerging (10)
- Cloudflare MCP server portals Product
Cloudflare One feature that puts multiple MCP servers behind a single HTTP endpoint secured by Cloudflare Access, with customized tools and per-user policies for MCP clients.
- Docker MCP Catalog, Toolkit & Gateway Product
Docker's catalog of containerized MCP servers with a Desktop toolkit and an open-source MCP Gateway (docker mcp CLI plugin). An enterprise gateway authenticates users, scopes servers and tools, applies per-call policy and supplies creden…
- Glama MCP Product
Searchable directory of more than 112,000 MCP servers with license, quality and maintenance grades, plus an MCP directory API and connectors for agents.
- IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway Framework
Open-source registry and proxy that federates MCP, A2A and REST/gRPC APIs behind one endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails, governance and plugins.
- Kong AI Gateway Product
Kong's gateway for governing LLM, MCP and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic in one place. It controls access, data leakage and token usage for LLM calls, and generates and secures MCP servers for agents.
- Lunar.dev MCPX Product
Enterprise MCP and AI gateway (MCPX) that secures and governs AI applications and agents with policy enforcement, cost management and observability. Boomi acquired Lunar.dev in July 2026.
- Microsoft MCP Gateway Framework
Reverse proxy and management layer for MCP servers on Kubernetes, providing session-aware stateful routing and lifecycle management.
- Obot Product
Open-source AI control plane and MCP platform that connects agents to MCP servers through one OAuth setup. It enforces policy on what agents can do and records full audit logs of tool calls and LLM requests.
- Official MCP Registry Product
Community-driven registry service and API run by the Model Context Protocol project, where publishers list MCP servers under namespaced, versioned entries for clients and downstream catalogs to discover.
- Smithery Product
Public directory of MCP servers, now part of Arcade.dev. Until 2026-10-31 it was also a connection layer (hosted MCP proxy, Connect, Toolbox, managed credentials, API, CLI and SDKs); those shut down that day, and verified servers' regist…
Tier 4 — early / experimental (1)
- Ghost Beacon MCP tool server (GitHub-Issue rollover, board-game rules, transcript scan, A2A checks)
Zero-dependency Node.js MCP server (npx -y github:moecanales/agent-oracle-beacon) exposing nine tools: GitHub-Issue context rollover and comment-mutex extraction (GBR-2500), board-game rules lookup over bundled CC0 datasets, an agent tra…