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Local-first MCP gateway. One port for every tool and every AI client: lazy discovery (~90% token savings), tool integrity + quarantine, secrets in the OS keychain.

89 starsRust

One MCP setup for 22 clients, with lazy tool discovery

by tsouth2·Jul 15, 2026·4 points·0 comments
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Slashes MCP token overhead by 96% using lazy discovery instead of dumping full tool catalogs.

Strengths
  • •Lazy discovery swaps 24k token definitions for 900 tokens without losing task success rates.
  • •Single authentication point syncs secrets to OS keychain for 22 different AI clients.
  • •Built-in integrity checks quarantine poisoned tools before agents can execute destructive calls.
Weaknesses
  • •Relies on widespread MCP adoption; less useful if the ecosystem fragments or stalls.
  • •Adds a local network hop that could introduce latency for time-sensitive agent loops.
Target Audience

Developers building or using AI agents with multiple MCP servers

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Post Description

Toolport is a local MCP gateway with a native desktop app. Add and authenticate a server once, then connect it to any of 22 supported clients. Secrets stay in the OS keychain.

Instead of exposing the full catalog, Toolport gives agents four small meta-tools and searches for the real tools on demand. With 62 tools, that reduced definition overhead from about 24k tokens to 900. In benchmarked tasks, total token use fell by up to 91% at the same success rate.

It is MIT licensed with Windows, macOS, and Linux installers. The same Rust gateway also runs headlessly through stdio, Streamable HTTP, OpenAPI, or Docker.

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