Executor Cuts 278,800 Agent Tokens Down to 1,044 With One MCP Gateway
Executor is an open-source MCP gateway that unifies OpenAPI, GraphQL, and MCP tools into a single sandboxed catalog agents share.
PRO- Executor is an open-source MCP gateway unifying OpenAPI, GraphQL, and MCP tools behind one endpoint (GitHub).
- Code-mode MCP compresses 1,640 tools from ~278,800 tokens down to a single tool at ~1,044 tokens.
- Credentials stay host-side and are never exposed to the sandbox, agent, or model.
- Policies auto-derive safe vs destructive semantics from OpenAPI verbs, MCP hints, and GraphQL mutations.
- Ships as Cloud, CLI, desktop app, Docker self-host, or Cloudflare Worker, all MIT licensed.
- Free tier includes 10k executions/month; Team plan is $150/org/month for 250k executions.
Every agent stack has the same messy backend: Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT each need their own copy of every integration, the same API keys pasted into three configs, and no shared notion of what each tool is allowed to do. Executor is a new MIT-licensed integration layer that sits between your agents and every external service, exposing them all through a single MCP endpoint.
The project is a Y Combinator-backed TypeScript monorepo that has climbed to around 3.1k stars on GitHub. Its docs describe it as an integration platform and MCP gateway that lets you securely connect services like Google Workspace, GitHub, and Slack, then read data and run actions through one endpoint.
The context window problem it actually solves
The headline pitch is about wiring, but the real win is context efficiency. Executor's own numbers put it starkly: connecting the same catalog of GitHub, Stripe, Jira, Sentry, Linear, Gmail, Notion, and Slack tools directly would expose roughly 1,640 tools and burn around 278,800 tokens of context. Routed through Executor, the model sees a single execute tool costing about 1,044 tokens.
The mechanism is code-mode MCP. Instead of dumping every tool schema into the prompt, Executor gives the agent a sandboxed TypeScript runtime with a
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