agentgateway/agentgateway
Next Generation Agentic Proxy for AI Agents and MCP servers observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
81/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 83
- Longevity 38
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 2.0
- age_days: 533
- days_rel: 35
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 91
Adoption not part of the score
4563 stars · 770 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Agentgateway is an open-source, Rust-based proxy and gateway for agentic AI traffic, handling LLM provider routing, MCP tool servers, and A2A agent-to-agent communication alongside traditional HTTP, gRPC, and TCP traffic in one data plane. It can run as a standalone binary or as a Kubernetes Gateway API data plane with a built-in control plane, offering security, observability, and cost governance.
Use cases
- proxy LLM requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Bedrock through one OpenAI-compatible API
- expose and federate MCP tool servers to AI clients with OAuth and authorization
- secure and observe agent-to-agent (A2A) communication
- enforce LLM spend budgets, rate limits, and prompt guardrails
- load balance and fail over across multiple LLM providers
- route inference requests to self-hosted model pools on Kubernetes
- front regular APIs and microservices with the same gateway used for AI traffic
When to choose
- you need a single gateway for both traditional service traffic and AI-native protocols (MCP, A2A, LLM providers)
- you run Kubernetes and want Gateway API / Inference Extension integration
- you need enterprise features like mTLS, OIDC, multi-tenancy, and cost attribution for agent workloads
- you want tool federation and policy enforcement in front of MCP servers
When to avoid
- you only need a simple reverse proxy with no AI-specific routing or policy needs
- you want a lightweight client-side SDK rather than an infrastructure gateway
- your stack has no Kubernetes or container deployment capability and you need a managed SaaS gateway
Facets
service · maturity active
api-gateway proxy llm-inference mcp agent-framework rate-limiting auth authorization monitoring middleware routing websocket rpc artificial-intelligence large-language-models apis microservices cloud-computing security networking self-hosted rust self-hosted cloud cli cross-platform mcp-gateway a2a llm-gateway gateway-api inference-routing service-mesh openai-compatible ai-gateway traffic-management cost-controls ai-agents kubernetes docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5b9a2d3a8efa
- homepage: https://agentgateway.dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0157c7e0a00f
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0b764c093c29
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs/standalone/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · 14a001b7abf6
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs/kubernetes/latest · fetched 2026-08-29 · 46bc9ce247b1
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs/standalone/latest/llm · fetched 2026-08-29 · 448807e605ab
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs/kubernetes/latest/llm · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0b46d6bbdb5b
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs/standalone/latest/inference · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3e913456e376
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs/kubernetes/latest/inference · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9807b5e34517
- site_page: https://agentgateway.dev/docs/standalone/latest/mcp · fetched 2026-08-29 · 446cde6a285e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| agentgateway/agentgateway | main | 81 |
For agents
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