# reShapr

> reShapr is a no-code AI translation layer that instantly converts existing APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) into secure, production-ready MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — without writing a line of code.

reShapr enables enterprises to expose their APIs to AI agents and LLMs via the Model Context Protocol. It handles authentication, authorization, context control, and multi-tenant deployment so teams can move from API to AI-native endpoint in seconds.

**Key concepts:**
- **MCP (Model Context Protocol)**: An open standard by Anthropic for connecting LLMs to external tools and data sources. reShapr implements and extends it for enterprise use.
- **No-code server creation**: Connect an existing API artifact (OpenAPI spec, gRPC proto, etc.) and reShapr generates a secure MCP server automatically.
- **Context control**: reShapr filters which tools are exposed to which agents, preventing context overload and keeping LLM interactions precise.
- **Gateway groups**: Logical groupings of MCP gateways for multi-tenant and multi-environment deployments.
- **Hybrid deployment**: Run reShapr in the cloud, on-premise, or in hybrid configurations via Docker Compose or Helm charts.

**Company:**
- [Website summary](https://reshapr.io/index.md)
- [About reShapr](https://reshapr.io/about.md)
- [Community resources](https://reshapr.io/community.md)
- [Blog index](https://reshapr.io/blog.md)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/reshaprio/reshapr)

## Table of Contents

- [How It Works](https://reshapr.io/docs/overview/how-it-works.md): reShapr is a zero-code AI translation layer. Instead of building an MCP server from scratch, you can use reShapr to instantly translate your existi...
- [Why reShapr?](https://reshapr.io/docs/overview/why-reshapr.md): Hey hey… wondering why we built reShapr? 🤔
- [Context Control in Practice](https://reshapr.io/docs/tutorials/context-control-in-practice.md): Turn the Open-Meteo endpoint into one agent-oriented action, filter its result, and measure the change using two Configuration Plans.
- [Your First GitOps-managed MCP Endpoint](https://reshapr.io/docs/tutorials/first-gitops-mcp-endpoint.md): Create and verify a reShapr MCP endpoint from Kubernetes resources managed through Git.
- [Your First MCP Endpoint, End to End](https://reshapr.io/docs/tutorials/getting-started.md): Turn a versioned Open-Meteo contract into a reShapr MCP endpoint, then discover, list, and call its generated Tool.
- [Try reShapr online](https://reshapr.io/docs/tutorials/try-reshapr-online.md): The fastest way to experience reShapr is through our hosted online environment: no installation required 🙌
- [Audit MCP Endpoint Calls](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/audit-mcp-endpoint.md): Enable audit for an MCP endpoint and verify successful-call and authentication-failure records.
- [Automate reShapr with the CLI in CI/CD](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/automate-with-cli-in-cicd.md): Build a repeatable CI/CD workflow with the reShapr CLI, structured output, explicit checks, and controlled deletion.
- [Deploy a Hybrid Gateway](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/deploy-hybrid-gateway.md): Run a reShapr Gateway in another trust domain and connect it to an existing control plane.
- [Deploy reShapr on Kubernetes for Production](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/deploy-kubernetes-production.md): Deploy the reShapr control plane, proxy, Web UI, and controllers as a production-oriented Kubernetes topology.
- [Docker Compose](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/docker-compose.md): Learn how to run reShapr locally using Docker Compose for development and testing purposes.
- [Manage reShapr Resources with GitOps](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/manage-resources-with-gitops.md): Organize, reconcile, update, and safely remove reShapr Kubernetes resources through a GitOps workflow.
- [Attach and Select reShapr Artifacts](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/select-reshapr-artifacts.md): Attach Prompts, Resources, Custom Tools, and output filters to a Service, then expose different Artifact selections through separate Plans.
- [Test an MCP Endpoint with an MCP Client](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/test-mcp-endpoint.md): Validate a reShapr MCP endpoint by negotiating a protocol mode, listing Tools, calling one Tool, and interpreting common errors.
- [From API Contract to Agent Action](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/api-to-agent.md): Follow an API contract through import, MCP capability selection, Tool dispatch, response filtering, and delivery to an agent.
- [Configuration Plan & Exposition](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/configuration-and-exposition.md): Define Configuration Plans and Expositions to control how Services become MCP Server endpoints.
- [Context Control: Mechanisms and Trade-offs](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/context-control.md): Compare operation selection, Artifact selection, Custom Tools, output filters, and TOON when designing an MCP surface for agents.
- [Control Plane to Gateway Synchronization](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/control-plane-gateway-synchronization.md): Understand how a reShapr Gateway registers, discovers Expositions, receives configuration changes, and recovers synchronization.
- [Deployment Models and Trust Boundaries](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/deployment-models-trust-boundaries.md): Compare reShapr deployment models by network flow, data location, trust boundary, and operational responsibility.
- [Gateway Group & Gateway](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/gateway-groups-and-gateways.md): Understand Gateway Groups and Gateways — the deployment units that route MCP traffic across tenants and environments.
- [Multi-tenancy and Administrative Governance](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/multi-tenancy-administrative-governance.md): Understand reShapr organization tenancy, administrative identities, service accounts, Gateway tokens, and resource quotas.
- [Service, Artifact, Plan, Exposition, Gateway: The Lifecycle](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/resource-lifecycle.md): Understand how Artifacts, Services, Configuration Plans, Expositions, Gateway Groups, and Gateways depend on and affect one another.
- [Security Capabilities and Limits](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/security-model.md): Understand the security controls and limits at each reShapr trust boundary.
- [Services and Artifacts](https://reshapr.io/docs/explanations/services-and-artifacts.md): Understand how API and reShapr Artifacts define a versioned Service and contribute capabilities to each MCP Exposition.
- [reShapr CLI Reference](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/cli-commands.md): Full reference for reShapr CLI commands — login, import, attach, config, expo, secrets, gateway management, and more.
- [Custom Tools](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/custom-tools-specification.md): Define Custom Tools to rename, condense, and translate default API operations into LLM-friendly MCP tools.
- [reShapr features](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/features.md): Verified reShapr capabilities, availability, scope, and canonical references.
- [Helm Charts Overview](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/helm-charts.md): Choose among the four reShapr Helm charts and continue with their canonical installation and values documentation.
- [Product Interfaces](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/interfaces.md): Find the canonical reShapr API, CLI, Kubernetes, and Helm interfaces without duplicating their owner documentation.
- [Kubernetes APIs and Controllers Overview](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/kubernetes-apis.md): Find the seven reShapr Kubernetes APIs and understand the operator and admission controller boundaries.
- [Prompts](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/prompts-specification.md): Define MCP Prompts using YAML to provide accelerators, guardrails, and orchestration instructions for tool usage.
- [Resources](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/resources-specification.md): Define MCP Resources to share contextual data — files, schemas, or application-specific information — with LLMs.
- [Tools Output Filtering](https://reshapr.io/docs/references/spec-outtools-filtering.md): Define ToolsOutputFilters to retain, patch, or convert MCP tool outputs before they reach the model.
- [Demos](https://reshapr.io/docs/demos.md): Video demos showing reShapr in action — CLI installation, Docker setup, and OpenAPI-to-MCP conversion.
- [Assign and Monitor Organization Quotas](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/administration/organization-quotas.md): Assign, adjust, disable, and verify reShapr organization quotas through the Web UI, CLI, or administration API.
- [Manage Organizations, Owners, and Memberships](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/administration/organizations-and-memberships.md): Create reShapr organizations and manage their owners and user memberships through the Web UI, CLI, or administration API.
- [Observe the reShapr Gateway](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/operations/observe-and-audit.md): Export reShapr Gateway telemetry, follow distributed traces, route audit logs, and expose proxy metrics to Prometheus.
- [Troubleshoot an Exposition or Gateway](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/operations/troubleshoot.md): Diagnose inactive Expositions, unsynchronized Gateways, MCP errors, backend failures, and unresolved Secrets.
- [Upgrade reShapr and Rotate Runtime Secrets](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/operations/upgrade-and-rotate.md): Upgrade a Kubernetes reShapr deployment and rotate endpoint, Gateway, and backend credentials with explicit recovery boundaries.
- [Protect an MCP Endpoint with an API Key](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/security/api-key.md): Protect a reShapr MCP endpoint with an API key, verify access, and rotate the key without restarting the Gateway.
- [Authenticate Backend Calls and Use Elicitation](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/security/backend-auth-and-elicitation.md): Authenticate reShapr Gateway calls to backend APIs with stored, locally resolved, or elicited credentials.
- [Protect an MCP Endpoint with OAuth 2.0](https://reshapr.io/docs/how-to-guides/security/oauth.md): Protect a reShapr MCP endpoint with OAuth 2.0 bearer JWT validation and verify accepted and rejected requests.
- [Docs Home](https://reshapr.io/docs/index.md): Welcome to reShapr documentation — guides, tutorials, and reference for no-code MCP servers and AI-native API access.
- [From API Sprawl to Agent Actions](https://reshapr.io/blog/from-api-sprawl-to-agent-actions.md): How reShapr turns existing APIs into governed, task-specific MCP tools with Custom Tools, scripted orchestration, and output filtering.
- [From Context Overload to Context Control!](https://reshapr.io/blog/from-context-overload-to-context-control.md): How reShapr's selective tool exposure makes the Model Context Protocol production-ready at enterprise scale.
- [reShapr vs Official GitHub MCP 🥊](https://reshapr.io/blog/reshapr-vs-official-github-mcp.md): A live, curl-reproducible benchmark showing how reShapr turns a 31-call GitHub MCP pull-request workflow into one predictable agent action, then tr...
- [Six Use Cases for Accelerating AI with reShapr 🚀](https://reshapr.io/blog/six-use-cases-for-accelerating-ai-with-reshapr.md): Six ways organizations use reShapr to streamline API enablement, accelerate prototyping, and securely integrate AI into production.
- [Welcome to reShapr ⭐️](https://reshapr.io/blog/welcome-to-reshapr.md): From a private beta experiment to an open project — reShapr is now live. Here's the story behind it and what comes next.
- [Why reShapr?](https://reshapr.io/blog/why-reshapr.md): Why enterprises shouldn't build MCP servers from scratch — and what a no-code MCP server changes about AI-native API access.