{"id":"mcp-proxy","name":"MCP Proxy","af_score":70.2,"security_score":70.0,"reliability_score":null,"what_it_does":"A bidirectional proxy that bridges stdio and SSE/Streamable HTTP MCP transports, enabling clients like Claude Desktop (which only speak stdio) to connect to remote HTTP-based MCP servers, and vice versa.","best_when":"Your MCP client only supports stdio but your servers speak HTTP/SSE, or you need to expose a local stdio server to remote consumers.","avoid_when":"Client and server already support the same transport natively; the proxy layer adds latency and an extra failure point.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-01T09:50:05.882803+00:00"}