MCP Bridge: A Lightweight, LLM-Agnostic RESTful Proxy for Model Context Protocol Servers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08999v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:19:48 GMT
• Title: MCP Bridge: A Lightweight, LLM-Agnostic RESTful Proxy for Model Context Protocol Servers
• Authors: Arash Ahmadi, Sarah Sharif, Yaser M. Banad,
• Abstract summary: MCP Bridge is a lightweight proxy that connects to multiple MCP servers and exposes their capabilities through a unified API.<n>The system implements a risk-based execution model with three security levels standard execution, confirmation, and Docker isolation while maintaining backward compatibility with standard MCP clients.
• Score: 0.5266869303483376
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly augmented with external tools through standardized interfaces like the Model Context Protocol (MCP). However, current MCP implementations face critical limitations: they typically require local process execution through STDIO transports, making them impractical for resource-constrained environments like mobile devices, web browsers, and edge computing. We present MCP Bridge, a lightweight RESTful proxy that connects to multiple MCP servers and exposes their capabilities through a unified API. Unlike existing solutions, MCP Bridge is fully LLM-agnostic, supporting any backend regardless of vendor. The system implements a risk-based execution model with three security levels standard execution, confirmation workflow, and Docker isolation while maintaining backward compatibility with standard MCP clients. Complementing this server-side infrastructure is a Python based MCP Gemini Agent that facilitates natural language interaction with MCP tools. The evaluation demonstrates that MCP Bridge successfully addresses the constraints of direct MCP connections while providing enhanced security controls and cross-platform compatibility, enabling sophisticated LLM-powered applications in previously inaccessible environments

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