# stacklok/toolhive

> Platform for running and managing MCP servers in isolated containers with access policies, a registry, and a gateway. Lets you securely connect MCP to AI clients locally or on Kubernetes.

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 2,248 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-08, 10:59–11:55 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: Go · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2025-03-12 · Last push: 2026-10-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive · Homepage: https://stacklok.com/download/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/stacklok/toolhive

## Useful for

- Run an MCP server in an isolated container via CLI or desktop app
- Deploy MCP servers on Kubernetes with the operator and access policies
- Connect Claude Code, Cursor, or VS Code to managed MCP servers in one click

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 10:59–11:55: 2248 → 2248 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +2 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #12, +9 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 314
- Issues and pull requests: 6,672
- Watchers: 17
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v0.51.4 (2026-09-27)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-09 … 2026-10-08: 10, 2, 3, 1, 1, 7, 11, 2, 5, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 4, 6, 4, 5, 1, 1, 5, 2, 1, 3, 9, 0

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Go today: #12, +9 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-08 12:00 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.