Maintainer

Responsibilities

• Review and Triage: Reviewing pull requests and triaging issues in the parts of ToolHive I know from running it in production: authorization, MCP protocol handling, the proxy layer, and the Kubernetes operator. A change that reaches beyond them goes to the maintainers who know that subsystem best.

• Defects Found in Real Use: Taking defects found in real use upstream with a reproduction a maintainer can run as is and, where I can write it, the fix with a test, so the correction reaches every ToolHive user instead of living on as one deployment's local patch.

• Technical Direction: Weighing in on proposals and design decisions in the same areas, with evidence from a production deployment behind the opinion.

How the Role Came About

ToolHive is the platform under the corporate MCP gateway I built and run at Spotware. Connecting real AI clients to it turned up defects, and I took them upstream: issues with full reproductions and the responsible source line wherever I could pin it, then pull requests of my own. The maintainers fixed several of those reports themselves and reviewed and merged my pull requests; the first was credited in the v0.46.0 release notes as my first contribution to the project, and more followed across later releases and in the project's shared core library.

In October 2026 the maintainers invited me to join them, and PR #6808 added me to the project's maintainers list. The whole trail is public: my issues and my pull requests in the project.

The role and my work at Spotware strengthen each other: the gateway depends on ToolHive, so what I review and fix upstream is what the gateway runs on. For the gateway and the rest of that work, see AI Product Manager at Spotware.