cortex gateway for Gemini CLI

io.github.wellknownmcp/cortex-gateway

Self-hosted federated MCP gateway: one OAuth 2.1 MCP server in front of N apps, user-level scopes.

client:Gemini CLI transport:streamable-http runtime:oci

Install cortex gateway in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cortex-gateway": {
      "httpUrl": "https://mcp.cortex-gateway.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs