lourencomaciel/sift-gateway

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Reliability gateway for AI tool output: schema-stable, secret-safe, pagination-complete JSON for MCP and CLI agents.

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What you need to know

Sift is a reliability gateway for MCP and CLI tool output that persists payloads as SQLite artifacts, returning schema-stable, secret-safe, pagination-complete JSON.

Install

pipx install sift-gateway
sift-gateway init --from <claude|claude-code|cursor|vscode|windsurf|zed|auto>

Usage

  • Mirror MCP tool calls and CLI commands through Sift (sift-gateway run)
  • Query stored artifacts with Python (sift-gateway code)
  • Continue pagination until pagination.retrieval_status == COMPLETE

Key features

  • Artifact-backed outputs keep full data out of prompt context
  • schema_ref mode for large outputs with query guidance
  • Exact structured retrieval via Python over stored artifacts
  • Explicit pagination contract and pagination-chain analysis
  • Outbound secret redaction enabled by default
  • Improved accuracy 33% to 99% and 95.4% fewer input tokens in benchmarks
  • Python 3.11+, MIT license

Best for

Making MCP/CLI tool output reliable, safe, and pagination-complete for agents.

Clients: Claude · Claude Code · Cursor · VS Code · Windsurf · Zed · OpenClaw
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Reviewed 2026-08-11

Topics

agent-toolingai-agentsartifactsclicontext-engineeringcontext-managementgatewayjsonllmmcpmodel-context-protocolopenclawpaginationpythonredactionreliabilityschemasecuritysqlite
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Forks
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Language
Python
License
MIT
Created
2026-02-08
Last push
2026-08-03