Obot

What it is

Obot is an open-source platform for organisations to manage, secure and govern their AI ecosystem: MCP and LLM gateways, hosted (sandboxed) MCP servers and agents, MCP and skills registries, identity and access control, and audit logs (repo README, read 2026-10-08).

Maker and licence

Obot AI, repo obot-platform/obot, MIT licence. 1,096 stars on 2026-10-08; latest release v0.26.3 (2026-10-08) per GitHub API. Website https://obot.ai.

Position

Registry plus gateway plus hosting: broader than a pure MCP proxy.

Core capabilities (README)

• MCP Gateway: proxy servers hosted by Obot or elsewhere; composite servers exposing selected tools from several servers; access by user or identity-provider group; MCP OAuth and credential handling; request/response filters (MCP or webhook).
• LLM Gateway: provider-compatible endpoints for OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Azure and generic Responses-compatible providers; provider keys stay in Obot; scoped API keys; model access policies; token and estimated-cost records.
• Hosting: npx, uvx and containerised MCP servers as Docker containers or Kubernetes workloads, with domain-based egress rules via a network-policy provider; hosted agents.
• Registries: MCP and Skills catalogs from Git-backed repositories, exposed through the standard MCP Registry API.
• Obot CLI and Obot Sentry: device-side scanning, hooks for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and VS Code; the README marks Device Management as beta.
• Audit logs correlating MCP, LLM and device activity, exportable.
• Deployment: self-hosted; Docker quick start in the README.

MCP spec support

Not stated in the README; it says catalogs follow the standard MCP Registry API.

Maturity

Active (release the day of reading, pre-1.0 version number). Device Management beta per README.

Fit and limits (opinion)

Fits organisations wanting one self-hosted place for approved MCP servers, skills, model access and audit. Heavier to run than single-purpose proxies such as MCPJungle or MetaMCP; the pre-1.0 version numbers suggest the API may still change.

Related notes

• agentgateway, Arcade MCP Gateway, Portkey, OmniRoute: other gateway notes in this folder
• MCP security with a gateway, Model Context Protocol, A2A protocol
• HyperTool MCP (tool-subset proxy) and Tool Platforms (managed tool/integration platforms) cover adjacent ground and are not repeated here

Self-learning

• Repo and README: https://github.com/obot-platform/obot
• Website: https://obot.ai
• Docs: linked from the README (docs folder in the repo)

Sources

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obot-platform/obot/main/README.md (fetched 2026-10-08)
• https://api.github.com/repos/obot-platform/obot and /releases/latest (fetched 2026-10-08)

Open items

• MCP spec revision supported: not stated.
• Vendor commercial offering / editions: not checked.
• Docs site URL not independently opened.