Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/jetwind/mcp-context-forge/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jetwind/mcp-context-forgeWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.07032 | $0.07032 |
| Opus 5 | $0.03516 | $0.03516 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.01406 | $0.01406 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00703 | $0.00703 |
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 yesterday.
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.
This is a copy
89% identical to mcp-context-forge AGENTS.md — 35 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.
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 workflowsplugins/AGENTS.md- Plugin framework and developmentcharts/AGENTS.md- Helm chart operationsdocs/AGENTS.md- Documentation authoringmcp-servers/AGENTS.md- MCP server implementationcrates/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)
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.
- yesterday First seen · 545 lines · 7,032 tokens per session scan A ce38a03176ae
mcp-context-forge AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository jetwind/mcp-context-forge (0 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 7,032 tokens to every session, about $0.0352 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to mcp-context-forge AGENTS.md, differing in 35 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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