secure-mcp-gateway

Overview

A secure middleware gateway for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), built with Python, featuring async support and guardrails for AI model context management.

Capabilities

• • prompt templates
• • tool call interface
• • authentication support
• • github integration
• • mcp client integration

Best For

Enkrypt Secure MCP Gateway: Python-based secure middleware for Model Context Protocol (MCP) with guardrails and async capabilities.

Decision Snapshot

• • GitHub stars: 53
• • Forks: 8
• • Source provenance count: 1
• • Last seen: 3/16/2026
• • Published: 3/16/2026

Installation / Setup

# ------------------ && # Python && # ------------------ && python --version

Usage

{ && "common_mcp_gateway_config": { && "enkrypt_log_level": "INFO", && "enkrypt_base_url": "https://api.enkryptai.com",

Features

• • Docker-in-Docker requires privileged mode and special socket mounting
• • Network isolation prevents containers from communicating properly
• • Volume mounts don't work as expected across container boundaries
• • Performance overhead and security concerns
• • Increased complexity and debugging difficulty
• • ✅ **npm-based servers**: npm exec -y server-name
• • Running the gateway outside of Docker (local installation), OR
• • Setting up proper Docker networking with --network host or custom bridge networks, OR

Use Cases

• • Supports capabilities such as: prompt templates; tool call interface; authentication support.
• • Common usage themes: mcp, gateway, secure, middleware.

Supported Clients / Integrations

• • prompt templates
• • tool call interface
• • authentication support
• • github integration
• • mcp client integration

Compatibility Signals

• • Claude Desktop: mentions (Mentioned in approved metadata/docs evidence.)
• • Cursor: mentions (Mentioned in approved metadata/docs evidence.)
• • GitHub: supports (Detected in parser config/capability hints.)

Prompt Examples

Notes / Requirements

• • Primary language: Python
• • License: Apache-2.0
• • Documentation coverage: high
• • Parser coverage score: 1.00
• • Source feeds: PyPI RSS + JSON API
• • Topic cluster: general

Official Links

• Website
• Repository
• Documentation 1 (/quickstart/server)
• Documentation 2 (/guardrails-api-referen...)
• Documentation 3 (/libraries/python/intro...)
• Documentation 4 (/en/docs/claude-code)
• Documentation 5 (/context/model-context-...)
• Documentation 6 (/quickstart/user)

Source Information

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