What is mcp-context-forge AGENTS.md?

Repository-specific instructions for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, when working on the ContextForge codebase. They describe the project, its folders, commands, setup, and where to find more detailed guidance.

Use them when modifying ContextForge, especially its tests, plugins, Helm deployment charts, documentation, MCP server code, or Rust runtime.

They reduce guesswork about how this repository is organised and how its different parts should be changed or checked.

How jetwind/mcp-context-forge configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jetwind/mcp-context-forge/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jetwind/mcp-context-forge

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 7,032 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

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What it costs to keep this loaded

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Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.07032	$0.07032
Opus 5.5	$0.02813	$0.02813
Sonnet 5.5	$0.01406	$0.01406
Haiku 4.5	$0.00703	$0.00703

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ce38a03176ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-context-forge AGENTS.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 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to mcp-context-forge AGENTS.md — 200 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

AGENTS.md · 545 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 545 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidelines for AI coding assistants working with this repository.

For domain-specific guidance, see subdirectory AGENTS.md files:

tests/AGENTS.md - Testing conventions and workflows
plugins/AGENTS.md - Plugin framework and development
charts/AGENTS.md - Helm chart operations
docs/AGENTS.md - Documentation authoring
mcp-servers/AGENTS.md - MCP server implementation
crates/mcp_runtime/DEVELOPING.md - Rust MCP runtime development workflows, command matrix, and validation

Note: The llms/ directory contains guidance for LLMs using ContextForge solution (end-user runtime guidance), not for code agents working on this codebase.

Project Overview

ContextForge is an open source registry and proxy that federates MCP, A2A, and REST/gRPC APIs with centralized governance, discovery, and observability. It federates tools, agents, and APIs, optimizes agent and tool calling, and supports plugins, auth/RBAC, rate-limiting, virtual servers, multi-transport protocols, and an optional Admin UI.

Project Structure

mcpgateway/                 # Core FastAPI application
├── main.py                 # Application entry point
├── config.py               # Environment configuration
├── db.py                   # SQLAlchemy ORM models and session management
├── schemas.py              # Pydantic validation schemas
├── services/               # Business logic layer (50+ services)
├── routers/                # HTTP endpoint definitions (19 routers)
├── middleware/             # Cross-cutting concerns (16 middleware)
├── transports/             # Protocol implementations (SSE, WebSocket, stdio, streamable HTTP)
├── plugins/                # Plugin integration (uses cpex external package)
└── alembic/                # Database migrations

tests/                      # Test suite (see tests/AGENTS.md)
plugins/                    # Plugin implementations (see plugins/AGENTS.md)
plugins_rust/               # Rust plugin implementations for performance-sensitive paths
charts/                     # Helm charts (see charts/AGENTS.md)
docs/                       # Architecture and usage documentation (see docs/AGENTS.md)
a2a-agents/                 # A2A agent implementations (used for testing/examples)
mcp-servers/                # MCP server templates (see mcp-servers/AGENTS.md)
crates/                     # Direct Rust crate folders (runtime and wrapper)
llms/                       # End-user LLM guidance (not for code agents)

Read the full file on GitHub · 545 lines

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.

2mo ago First seen · 545 lines · 7,032 tokens per session scan A ce38a03176ae

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mcp-context-forge AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jetwind/mcp-context-forge (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 7,032 tokens to every session, about $0.0281 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to mcp-context-forge AGENTS.md, differing in 200 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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