Conduit
Every MCP server. Three tools in context.
Conduit is a free, open-source local MCP gateway. Every MCP server dumps its whole tool list into your agent context on every request; Conduit collapses them to 3 meta-tools the agent searches on demand, measured ~90% fewer tokens at the same task success. Keys stay in your OS keychain, every call is audited.
Conduit has its own home at conduitmcp.app, this is the short version.
// what it does
Lazy-discovery mode advertises three meta-tools instead of the full catalog, so agent context stays flat no matter how many servers you connect. Measured: 97% less tool overhead per request, ~90% fewer tokens, same task success.
Each client points at one Conduit gateway. Authenticate a server a single time; it appears in every connected agent.
Give each client only the servers it should see. A coding agent literally cannot call a tool that is not in its profile.
Clients only ever say "talk to Conduit." OAuth or API keys live in the OS keychain and are injected at runtime — never in client configs.
Toggle any tool on or off, or hide every destructive tool at once. Every call is recorded with per-server latency and error rates.
Invoke any tool from a schema-generated form to confirm a server works before you wire it into a client.