{"id":"lightconetech-mcp-gateway","name":"mcp-gateway","af_score":42.8,"security_score":37.0,"reliability_score":25.0,"what_it_does":"A gateway that translates MCP traffic between Claude Desktop’s stdio-based MCP client and HTTP/SSE-based MCP servers by accepting stdio requests, forwarding them to an SSE MCP server, and converting the responses back to the stdio MCP format.","best_when":"You control your local Claude Desktop setup and need a lightweight protocol translator to reach an MCP SSE endpoint.","avoid_when":"You need well-documented security controls, rate-limiting behavior, or strong reliability semantics (retry/idempotency guidance) from the gateway itself.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:41:22.866956+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["Environment variable configuration for upstream MCP server URL (no auth method described for the gateway itself)"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Gateway behavior depends on MCP_SERVER_URL/upstream server capabilities; mismatches between expected tool schema/transport behavior may surface as runtime failures.","The gateway is installed globally and then invoked via a local node command path in Claude Desktop config, which can be brittle across environments/paths."],"error_quality":0.0}