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toolhive

ToolHive is an enterprise-grade platform for running and managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

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2.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

ToolHive is an enterprise-grade platform for running and managing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by day3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-05-26 10:43:30 UTC to 2025-06-04 23:16:43 UTC.

012025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 262025-05-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 302025-05-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 4

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What Hacker News says

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This looks interesting, but anytime security is offloaded to an LLM I am extremely skeptical. IMO the right way to do this is to enforce permissions explicitly through a AuthZ policy. Something like what Toolhive [0] is doing is the right way I think. All MCP comms from client to server go through an SSE proxy which has AuthN and AuthZ enabled. You can create custom policies for AuthZ using Cedar [1]. [0] https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive, https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/blob/main/docs/authz.md [1] https://docs.cedarpolicy.com/
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