Overview¶
Welcome to ContextForge documentation.
This section introduces what ContextForge is, the gateway patterns it supports, and what core features and capabilities it offers out of the box.
What is ContextForge?¶
ContextForge is an open source registry and proxy that federates MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs with centralized governance, discovery, and observability. It optimizes agent and tool calling, supports plugins, and provides multiple integration patterns:
- Tools Gateway — Federate MCP servers, REST APIs, and gRPC services into one composable tool catalog
- Agent Gateway — Route to A2A agents, OpenAI-compatible agents, and Anthropic agents
- API Gateway — Rate limiting, auth, retries, and reverse proxy for REST services
- Plugin Extensibility — 40+ plugins for additional transports, protocols, and integrations
- Observability — OpenTelemetry tracing with Phoenix, Jaeger, Zipkin, and other OTLP backends
It also provides protocol enforcement, health monitoring, registry centralization, a visual Admin UI, and audit metadata capture — over HTTP, WebSockets, SSE, StreamableHttp, or stdio.
What's in This Section¶
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| Features | Breakdown of supported features including federation, transports, and tool wrapping |
| Admin UI | Screenshots and explanation of the interactive web dashboard |
| Quick Start | Quick Installation and Start up |