IRL Gateway

io.github.norve-labs/irl-gateway

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-07
Health score 49

About IRL Gateway

IRL Gateway is an MCP server published by the GitHub account norve-labs. An AI agent's trading mandate it can't break: checked before every order, reasoning sealed in IRL.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package irl-gateway at version 0.3.0.

It asks for one secret: IRL_API_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs IRL_BASE_URL, IRL_AGENT_ID and IRL_MODEL_HASH set before it starts.

Version 0.3.0 was published on 7 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`IRL_BASE_URL`	Yes	No	Your IRL server, e.g. https://irl.example.com
`IRL_API_TOKEN`	Yes	Yes	Bearer token for the IRL server
`IRL_AGENT_ID`	Yes	No	The agent registered on IRL (its mandate)
`IRL_MODEL_HASH`	Yes	No	The model hash the agent was registered with (64 hex)
`GATEWAY_BROKER`	No	No	paper (default, live prices, no keys) or exchange
`PAPER_BALANCES`	No	No	Starting paper balances, e.g. USDT=1000

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/norve-labs/irl-gateway
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: IRL_API_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account norve-labs
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	irl-gateway 0.3.0 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 23 files in irl-gateway 0.3.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 23 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 49 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity7 / 40

0 GitHub stars, 67 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-10-08, no GitHub release, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 10 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.norve-labs/irl-gateway`
Publisher	GitHub account norve-labs
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account norve-labs. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `irl-gateway` 0.3.0 (stdio)
Version	0.3.0
Published	2026-10-07
Last updated	2026-10-07
Source repository	https://github.com/norve-labs/irl-gateway
Website	https://norve.dev
Category	Finance & payments (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "irl-gateway": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "irl-gateway==0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "IRL_BASE_URL": "<your value>",
        "IRL_API_TOKEN": "<your value>",
        "IRL_AGENT_ID": "<your value>",
        "IRL_MODEL_HASH": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-norve-labs-irl-gateway.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.