mcp-gateway: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mcp-gateway CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from hyprmcp/mcp-gateway. It costs 296 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository-specific instructions for developing mcp-gateway, an HTTP reverse proxy that forwards requests to MCP servers. It includes OAuth authentication, streaming responses, configuration reloading, and webhook notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Installing development tools, starting the server with its local configuration, and working on proxying, authentication, streaming, request tracking, and webhooks.
Why use it?
They provide the commands and architectural rules needed to build and run the gateway consistently.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is hyprmcp/mcp-gateway's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-gateway itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-gateway configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to hyprmcp/mcp-gateway. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hyprmcp/mcp-gateway

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Sonnet 5 $0.00059 $0.00059
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Grade A, and why

mcp-gateway CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

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None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

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What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Common Development Commands

Build and Run

# Run the server with the local config
mise run serve

Development Setup

# Install development tools (requires mise)
mise install

Architecture Overview

MCP-Gateway is an HTTP reverse proxy for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers with OAuth authentication and webhook-based observability.

Key Components

  1. HTTP Server (cmd/serve.go): Cobra CLI with hot-reloading config via fsnotify
  2. OAuth Manager (oauth/): JWT validation using JWK sets, integrates with Dex identity provider
  3. Proxy Handler (proxy/):
    • Reverse proxy with MCP-aware transport
    • Intercepts JSON-RPC messages for session tracking
    • Supports SSE (Server-Sent Events) for streaming
  4. Webhook System (webhook/): Async notifications with full request/response context

Important Design Patterns

  • Config Hot-Reload: Uses fsnotify to watch config file changes
  • Context Propagation: Structured logging with request context
  • Transport Interception: Custom RoundTripper for MCP protocol awareness
  • Per-Route Auth: Authentication can be disabled for specific routes (e.g., public endpoints)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 40 lines · 296 tokens per session scan A abd486025b1a

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mcp-gateway CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hyprmcp/mcp-gateway (92 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 296 tokens to every session, about $0.0015 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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