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🛠 STDIO Wrapper (mcpgateway.wrapper)
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OAuth Troubleshooting Guide
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GitHub SSO Setup Tutorial
Google OAuth/OIDC Setup Tutorial
IBM Security Verify Setup Tutorial
Microsoft Entra ID OIDC Setup Tutorial
Microsoft EntraID Role and Group Claim Mapping
Keycloak OIDC Setup Tutorial
Okta OIDC Setup Tutorial
Generic OIDC Provider Setup Tutorial
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📐 Design & Roadmap
📐 Design & Roadmap
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REST-gRPC Module Profile
Security Features
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Export-Import Architecture
OpenTelemetry Integration
Multitenancy
OAuth
OAuth UI
Decision Records
Decision Records
1 Adopt FastAPI + Pydantic
2 Use Async SQLAlchemy ORM
3 Expose Multi-Transport Endpoints
4 Combine JWT & Basic Auth
5 Structured JSON Logging
5b VS Code Dev Container Support
6 Gateway & Tool-Level Rate Limiting
7 Pluggable Cache Backend
8 Federation & Auto-Discovery via DNS-SD
9 Built-in Health Checks
10 Observability via Prometheus
11 Namespaced Tool Federation
12 Drop-down tool selection
13 APIs for server connection string
14 Security Headers & CORS Middleware
15 Well-known URI Handler
16 Plugin Framework & AI Middleware
17 Adopt orjson for High-Performance JSON
18 Built-in Response Compression
19 Modular Architecture Split (14 Modules)
20 Multi-Format Packaging Strategy
21 Built-in Proxy vs Service Mesh
22 Elicitation Passthrough Implementation
23 One-Time Authentication Servers
24 Uvicorn Standard Extras
25 Granian HTTP Server
26 Hiredis Redis Parser
27 Migrate Psycopg3
28 Auth Caching
29 Registry Admin Stats Caching
30 Metrics Cleanup Rollup
31 Parallel Session Cleanup
32 MCP Session Pool
33 Tool Lookup Cache
34 SSO Admin Sync & Config Precedence
34b Centralized Notification Service
35 Query Parameter Authentication
36 Bootstrap Custom Roles
37 External Plugin Stdio Launch
38b Multi-Worker Session Affinity
39 Adopt Fully Independent Plugin Crates Architecture
40 Flexible Admin UI Section Visibility
41 Top-Level Rust Workspace
42 Enforce Rust in the Build Process
43 Rust MCP Runtime Sidecar and Mode Model
44 Module Communication Protocol
45 Auth Remains in Core
46 Shared-Nothing Between Modules
47 Incremental Migration Over Rewrite
48 End-User Identity Propagation
📰 Media
📰 Media
Media Kit
Media Kit
Press
Press
Social
Social
📖 Tutorials
📖 Tutorials
🚀 Deploying ContextForge Stack to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service with Argo CD
OpenWebUI with Ollama, LiteLLM, MCPO, and ContextForge Deployment Guide
Dynamic Client Registration with HyprMCP
📝 How-To Guides
📝 How-To Guides
Authorize Tools in a Virtual Server Using RBAC
Deploy ContextForge on IBM Cloud with Code Engine
Configure ContextForge Plugins on Code Engine
⭐ Best Practices
⭐ Best Practices
Why use ContextForge
📐 MCP Architecture Patterns
⭐ Best Practices Guide
🔒 Input Validation
🛠️ Write an MCP Server in Python
❓ FAQ
❓ FAQ
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