tyk: Open Source API and AI Gateway supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol)

by TykTechnologies · MCP Server · ★ 10.9k

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How to install tyk

git clone https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk-gateway-docker
git clone https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 66/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars10,877
Forks1,170
LanguageGo
CategoryMCP Server
Quality Score66/100
Open Issues515
Last Updated2026-11-06
Created2014-05-07
Platformsgo, k8s, mcp
Est. Tokens~18k

About tyk

[](https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk/

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with tyk for enhanced workflows:

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  • ccLoad — semantic(0.30)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+shared_platform (55%)
  • Clipal — semantic(0.29)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+shared_platform (55%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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