MCP Gateway

The gateway never knows the capabilities ahead of time. A provider — typically a browser app — connects, publishes its own MCP tools, resources, prompts and more, and executes them when an MCP client calls them. The gateway only registers, publishes and routes, staying completely domain agnostic.

It is a small, installable library. You build a real application by subclassing Gateway and overriding hooks. The handlers themselves are written in JavaScript. This library never prescribes a specific frontend — the Provider SDK guide teaches the JS side generically.

📦 Install

pip install mcp-gtw
# or
uv add mcp-gtw

Related MCP server: mcpstead

🚀 The smallest gateway

from mcp_gtw.gateway import Gateway

app = Gateway().create_app()

uv run python -m mcp_gtw.main

This publishes a real MCP endpoint at /mcp, a private provider WebSocket at /provider and a health check at /health. It exposes whatever capabilities the connected provider registers.

☁️ One-click deploy

The image runs production-ready as a non-root process. Deploy it to any host that keeps a persistent server (the /provider WebSocket needs one — serverless like Vercel does not work):

Render, Railway and Fly.io run the Dockerfile as-is (they inject PORT, which the gateway reads); on a VPS (Hostinger, …) use Docker Compose. Full guide, including reverse proxy and TLS: deployment.

🧩 Extending it

Subclass Gateway and override the hooks to attach your own domain logic:

from mcp_gtw.channel import Channel
from mcp_gtw.gateway import Gateway

class MyGateway(Gateway):
    mcp_server_name = "my-app"

    async def on_provider_connected(self, channel: Channel) -> None:
        ...  # a provider session just came online

    def register_routes(self, app) -> None:
        super().register_routes(app)
        ...  # add your own HTTP and WebSocket routes

app = MyGateway().create_app()

Every behaviour is a swappable strategy with a secure default — authentication, tokens, origins, expiry and the wire codec. Change one by setting a *_class attribute or injecting an instance, without touching the transport. See the Gateway library guide for every override point, Extensibility for the strategy contracts, and Auth recipes for token, username/password and client-supplied-token models.

📚 Documentation

🗂️ Layout

.
├── src/mcp_gtw/     # the library
├── tests/               # unit and integration tests (100% coverage)
└── docs/                # the guides linked above

✅ Requirements

• Python 3.12+ — tested on 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14 in CI (3.12 is the pinned local and Docker version)

• Any MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, the MCP Inspector, …)

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Made with care by Paulo Coutinho.

Licensed under MIT.