MCP Gateway

Integrations

  • Provides a configuration format for defining MCP tool mappings to HTTP APIs, allowing users to specify server settings and tool definitions through structured YAML files.

MCP Gateway

MCP (Model Context Protocol) Gateway can translate MCP tool callings to traditional HTTP API requests. It can provide a configurable way to get existing HTTP API to MCP territory.

Getting Started

Create config file from config.example.yaml:

$ cp config.example.yaml config.yaml

Edit config.yaml file, map all APIs to MCP tools.

Then start launch it with SSE transport:

$ uv run mcp-gateway INFO: Started server process [15400] INFO: Waiting for application startup. INFO: Application startup complete. INFO: Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:3001 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Default is 3001.

Server Control

Change Port

Provide parameter --port=<port_no> in command line will change the port to SSE transport.

Launch gateway with port 3002:

$ uv run mcp-gateway --port=3002 INFO: Started server process [15400] INFO: Waiting for application startup. INFO: Application startup complete. INFO: Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:3002 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

stdio Transport

Provide parameter --transport=stdio in command line will change the transport to stdio.

E.G.:

$ uv run mcp-gateway --transport=stdio

It's meaningless to manually launch gateway in stdio transport. You can configure in Cursor or Cline like:

{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-gateway": { "command": "uv", "args": ["run", "mcp-gateway", "--transport=stdio"] } } }

Or MCP Inspector with form values:

ItemValue
Transport TypeSTDIO
Commanduv
Argumentsrun mcp-gateway --transport=stdio

Configuration File

There is two parts in configuration YAML, server and tools. server defines the basic info for gateway server use. tools defines the mapping from single MCP tool to HTTP API request.

server: name: rest-amap-server config: apiKey: foo tools: - name: maps-geo description: "将详细的结构化地址转换为经纬度坐标。支持对地标性名胜景区、建筑物名称解析为经纬度坐标" args: - name: address description: "待解析的结构化地址信息" required: true - name: city description: "指定查询的城市" required: false requestTemplate: url: "https://restapi.amap.com/v3/geocode/geo?key={{.config.apiKey}}&address={{.args.address}}&city={{.args.city}}&source=ts_mcp" method: GET headers: - key: x-api-key value: "{{.config.apiKey}}" - key: Content-Type value: application/json responseTemplate: body: | # 地理编码信息 {{- range $index, $geo := .Geocodes }} ## 地点 {{add $index 1}} - **国家**: {{ $geo.Country }} - **省份**: {{ $geo.Province }} - **城市**: {{ $geo.City }} - **城市代码**: {{ $geo.Citycode }} - **区/县**: {{ $geo.District }} - **街道**: {{ $geo.Street }} - **门牌号**: {{ $geo.Number }} - **行政编码**: {{ $geo.Adcode }} - **坐标**: {{ $geo.Location }} - **级别**: {{ $geo.Level }} {{- end }}

Server

ItemDescription
nameServer name
configKey/Value pairs that can be referenced by var {{.config.xxx}} in templates

Tools

tools is list of MCP tools mapping. Single tool props. are defined as follows:

ItemDescription
nameTool name (Function name), which is provided to LLM.
descriptionTool description through which LLM can understand what the tool could do.
argsArguments of tool (Function arguments).
requestTemplateRequest mapping to target HTTP API.
responseTemplateResponse mapping for response of target HTTP API.

Single argument props. are defined as follows:

ItemTypeDescription
nameArgument name, which is provided to LLM.
descriptionArgument description through which LLM can understand and decide what value should be filled.
requiredBooleanRequired argument or not.

Request template props. are defined as follows:

ItemDescription
methodHTTP method
urlTarget HTTP API url template
headersHTTP headers

HTTP headers are defined as follows:

ItemDescription
keyHeader key
valueHeader value template

Response template props are defined as follows:

ItemDescription
bodyResponse body template

Contribution

All kinds of contribution are welcomed.

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security - not tested
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license - permissive license
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quality - not tested

A server that translates Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool callings to traditional HTTP API requests, allowing existing HTTP APIs to be integrated into MCP territory through configurable mappings.

  1. Getting Started
    1. Server Control
      1. Change Port
      2. stdio Transport
    2. Configuration File
      1. Server
      2. Tools
    3. Contribution

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