agentgateway: MCP vendor profile
agentgateway is an open-source Rust proxy, hosted as a Linux Foundation project, that routes and secures MCP, A2A, LLM and ordinary HTTP or gRPC traffic in one data plane, as documented by the vendor. The agentgateway MCP Gateway is described as treating MCP servers like microservices: discover them, sign and scope every tool call, and keep an audit trail (agentgateway.dev).
At a glance
| Type | Gateways and proxies |
|---|---|
| Operator | Linux Foundation project |
| Home | agentgateway.dev |
| Price | open source, Apache-2.0 |
| Read | 5 November 2026 |
What it does for this layer
GitHub showed about 6.0k stars for agentgateway on 5 Nov 2026, under the Apache-2.0 license (github.com, observed 5 November 2026). agentgateway's MCP Auth authenticates callers into MCP servers and scopes which tools each identity may invoke (agentgateway.dev). agentgateway deploys as a standalone binary or Docker container, or on Kubernetes with a built-in control plane and the Gateway API (agentgateway.dev).
The agentgateway home page lists AAIF, Solo.io, Microsoft, Alibaba, Adobe, AWS, Cisco, Salesforce, Huawei, Amdocs and iFlytek as contributing companies (agentgateway.dev). agentgateway docs offer markdown versions of every page by appending .md to the URL, and an llms.txt index (agentgateway.dev). The agentgateway repository states "Agentgateway is a Linux Foundation project." (github.com).
The agentgateway repository describes it as "an open source proxy built on AI-native protocols (MCP & A2A)" for agent-to-LLM, agent-to-tool and agent-to-agent traffic (github.com).
Products and plans
| Product | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| agentgateway | Open-source proxy for MCP, A2A, LLM and service traffic, standalone or on Kubernetes. | open source, Apache-2.0; from 0 USD (source, as of 5 November 2026) |
Standards
| Standard | Part of it | Status | What the page says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP | MCP gateway and auth | Supports | MCP Gateway and MCP Auth features on the home page. | agentgateway.dev |
| A2A | A2A gateway | Supports | A2A Gateway listed with RBAC and CEL network authz. | agentgateway.dev |
Checks on its own domain
| Check | Domain | Result | Scanned | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ora cached score | agentgateway.dev | 50 of 100, grade C | 1 November 2026 | how it was taken |
| Cloudflare agent-readiness scan | agentgateway.dev | 13 of 100, L1 Basic Web Presence; 2 of 15 counted checks passed | 5 November 2026 | how it was taken |
What it does not do
- agentgateway does not host MCP server code; it proxies servers that run elsewhere.
- agentgateway is not a registry of public MCP servers.