mcp-gateway: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

mcp-gateway CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from theognis1002/mcp-gateway. It costs 8,132 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for MCP Gateway, an API gateway that connects clients to Model Context Protocol servers. It covers authentication, access rules, logging, rate limits, server discovery, and several connection methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop gateway authentication and permissions, expose other services as MCP servers, manage transports, inspect requests, limit traffic, and monitor server health.
Why use it?
It gives developers the project's intended architecture and security rules when adding or changing gateway behavior.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is theognis1002/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 theognis1002/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.

Copy the file
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theognis1002/mcp-gateway

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Nothing flagged

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CLAUDE.md · 746 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 746 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Gateway - Claude Development Guide

Project Overview

The MCP Gateway is a production-ready API gateway for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, providing enterprise-grade infrastructure with authentication, logging, rate limiting, server discovery, and multi-protocol transport support.

Core Purpose

  • Enterprise Infrastructure: JWT authentication, RBAC, and flexible policies
  • Multi-Protocol Support: JSON-RPC, WebSocket, SSE, HTTP, and STDIO transports
  • Service Virtualization: Wrap REST/GraphQL/gRPC services as virtual MCP servers
  • Production Ready: Comprehensive logging, IP rate limiting with Redis/memory backends, and health monitoring
  • Namespace Management: Group MCP servers into logical namespaces within an organization
  • Developer Tools: MCP Inspector for real-time debugging and testing

Key Features

  • 🔐 Authentication & Authorization - JWT-based auth with API keys, RBAC, and OAuth2
  • 📊 Comprehensive Logging - Request/response logging, audit trails, performance metrics
  • Rate Limiting - IP-based rate limiting with sliding window algorithms
  • 🛡️ Smart Rate Limiting - Redis-backed with memory fallback and proxy detection
  • 🔍 MCP Server Discovery - Dynamic registration and health checking
  • 🌐 Service Virtualization - Wrap non-MCP services as virtual MCP servers
  • 🔌 Multi-Protocol Support - JSON-RPC, WebSocket, SSE, HTTP, and STDIO transports
  • 🚀 High Performance - Built with Go and Gin for maximum throughput and low latency
  • 🏢 Namespace Management - Group and organize MCP servers into logical namespaces
  • 🔍 MCP Inspector - Real-time debugging and testing interface
  • 🤝 Agent-to-Agent (A2A) - Agent-to-agent authentication and communication
  • 🔧 Plugin System - Extensible middleware with content filters and AI integrations
  • 📡 Endpoint Management - Dynamic REST endpoint creation with OpenAPI generation
  • 🛠️ Content Filtering - PII detection, regex filtering, and resource protection

Read the full file on GitHub · 746 lines

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mcp-gateway CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository theognis1002/mcp-gateway (41 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8,132 tokens to every session, about $0.0407 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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