# Cortex Gateway MCP Server

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cortex-gateway-dev/cortex-gateway-mcp-server/  
**Provider:** Cortex Gateway — https://apis.io/providers/cortex-gateway-dev/  
**Base URL:** https://mcp.cortex-gateway.dev/mcp  
**Documentation:** https://cortex-gateway.dev/

Cortex Gateway MCP Server is published by [Cortex Gateway](https://apis.io/providers/cortex-gateway-dev/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include MCP, MCP Gateway, and OAuth 2.1. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Hosted demo of the open-source Cortex Gateway, a single OAuth 2.1-protected MCP server (Streamable HTTP; MCP 2026-07-28, 2025-11-25, 2025-06-18 and 2025-03-26 per the provider's SEP-2127 server card) that federates plain-HTTP backends implementing the Cortex backend contract and propagates the real user's identity. Anonymous JSON-RPC initialize returns 401 invalid_token with an RFC 9728 resource_metadata challenge; no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC or WSDL contract is published.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/wellknownmcp/cortex-gateway/tree/main/docs
- **Documentation** — https://github.com/wellknownmcp/cortex-gateway/blob/main/docs/backend-contract.md
- **Documentation** — https://cortex-gateway.dev/guides/secure-mcp-with-oauth/
- **APIsJSON** — https://artifacts.apis.io/cortex-gateway-dev/apis.yml

## Tags

MCP, MCP Gateway, OAuth 2.1

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