v1.0.0 — Production MCP Gateway

MCP Conduit v1.0.0

Production-grade MCP gateway with caching, auth, guardrails, plugins, and multi-server routing.

Highlights

• Transparent MCP proxy — HTTP and stdio transport support
• Two-tier caching — L1 in-memory LRU + L2 Redis distributed cache
• Authentication — JWT (JWKS) and API key with constant-time comparison
• AI Guardrails — Rule-based tool call inspection (block, alert, require_approval, transform)
• Plugin system — 5 pipeline hooks, dynamic loading, resilient execution
• Rate limiting — Sliding window (memory + Redis), hierarchical limits
• Multi-server routing — Namespace strategy, load balancing, circuit breakers
• OpenTelemetry — W3C Trace Context, OTLP trace export
• Service discovery — HTTP self-registration, DNS SRV
• Admin dashboard — React SPA with real-time metrics
• Security hardened — SSRF protection, CSRF, field redaction, URL validation

Quick Start

npm install mcp-conduit
npx conduit init     # interactive config wizard
npx conduit          # start the gateway

Or with Docker:

docker run -p 8080:8080 -v ./conduit.config.yml:/app/conduit.config.yml ghcr.io/lacausecrypto/mcp-conduit

Numbers

• 1341 tests across 70 test files, 0 failures
• 46K+ RPS cache hit, 111K+ RPS with all features enabled
• 0.02ms gateway overhead
• 194 files, 45K+ lines of TypeScript

Documentation

• Configuration Reference
• API Reference (40+ endpoints)
• Security Guide
• JSON Schema for autocompletion

Breaking Changes

First public release — no breaking changes.

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MIT License