# agentgateway

5 Hacker News commenters recommended agentgateway and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open-source gateway for AI agents and MCP tools, adding access policies, sessions and audit logs. Critics object to AI-generated-looking images and readme prose.

## Why people recommend it

- Access control for MCP tools (2 comments): "agentgateway handles RBAC (CEL policies per MCP tool), session management, and audit logging" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351976)) "You can use something like agentgateway to act as an auth proxy for your mcp servers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49400223))

## What people warn about

- Images and readme read as AI-generated (2 comments): "Ai slop images are a huge turnoff, everything about this screams eyes free development" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50121597)) "the ai speak is oozing uncontrollably from the readme" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50124791))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [LiteLLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/litellm.md): 72 recommend
- [Bifrost by Maxim](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bifrost.md): 17 recommend
- [GoModel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gomodel.md): 13 recommend
- [Claude Code Router](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-router.md): 11 recommend
- [CLIProxyAPI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cliproxyapi.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "agentgateway", https://hackerapproved.com/p/agentgateway/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).