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Hey I'm Apoorva 😀— I recently started getting into open source contributions and Archestra caught my eye, especially the MCP gateway angle. Really cool project.

Tried to open a PR for #3491 (the model selector chip thing) but got blocked by the contributor restriction, so figured I'd say hi here first.

Bit about me:

• Software Engineer at Oracle (MySQL / HeatWave release eng — Concourse, Jenkins, Terraform). Before that built a multi-agent platform at a Shopify Plus agency (LangChain, autonomous Dev + QA agents, RAG over Slack/email/meeting data)

• Mostly Python + TS day to day, CSAI background.

Took a look at #3491 and have a fix on a branch — tests pass, type-check clean.

Couple of things:

1. What's the move to get unblocked on PRs as a new contributor here?

2. Found a tiny chip flicker on reset I'd want to follow up on separately — bundle or split?

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Ayush Singh6:52 AMOpen in Slack

👋 Hi everyone!

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Harsh Panwar10:29 AMOpen in Slack

Hi everyone, I’ve seen several issues labeled ‘Reserved for SE interview.’ Are you currently hiring? Is this only for Archestra contributors, or can I also participate?

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10:31 AM

I’m also an OSS contributor. my GitHub

Matvey Kukuy (archestra team)11:12 AMOpen in Slack

Good day, everyone!

👋1

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Tigran Kostandyan12:51 PMOpen in Slack

Hi everyone!

Quick one for #2160 — MCP server args now support $VAR / ${VAR} refs from the env config. No more sh -c wrapping just to interpolate a value. Works for both default and custom YAML deploys. PR up if anyone wants to take a look 👀

https://github.com/archestra-ai/archestra/pull/4202

Subhasmita Swain3:24 PMOpen in Slack

Hey folks! I've been working on Responses API support for the OpenAI provider

(this PR #4143), and I just noticed #4190 is tackling this related portion as well. Rather than let these evolve in parallel, I thought it'd be good to sync up.

Quick summary of what my implementation covers:

Request/Response/Stream adapters following the existing proxy pattern
Guardrail integration via toolCalls population for trusted-data evaluation
unit and e2e test coverage (12 tests + WireMock scenarios)
extends the current LLM proxy architecture

PR #4190 appears to introduce a broader Model Router architecture that

includes Responses API as one component across multiple providers.

I'm curious in understanding how these pieces could work together or inform each other

@user @user I'm happy to adapt this work based on what makes sense for the architecture, and I'd value your perspective on the best path forward.

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Justin Green3:36 PMOpen in Slack

Hi all, I'm Justin I have a background in Computer Science with 8 years of experience, some at Amazon Web services, and some as a contractor .

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Eric Leijonmarck5:59 PMOpen in Slack

Hey peeps :fox_wave:, i have been looking into proper context compaction. Have some steps to think through and perhaps make multiple PRs as a step by step implementation to get going with context compaction in clear delivery steps.

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Abhinav6:00 PMOpen in Slack

Hey team!

While working on #4021, I realized we might need a way to move agent configurations between completely different instances (like from dev to prod or sharing with the community).

The basic idea is to export/import portable JSON configs.

I've created a GitHub issue outlining the basic idea - #4201. Let me know what you think!

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Archestra App6:09 PMOpen in Slack

New release! 🚀🚀🚀

1.2.28 (2026-04-29)

Features

add personal mcp gateway (#4136) (9536b5e)
add search-and-run tool mode (#4041) (b06cbb7)
add virtual-key-backed OpenAI-compatible model router (#4190) (6f05365), closes #3851 #720
allow basic users to access chat agent picker and provider settings (#4188) (24be253)
default connection page to per-user personal MCP gateway (#4137) (f52d3c1)
enable swap_agent tool in Slack/MS teams chatops channels (#4067) (d50bb1a)
*mcp-gateway:* automatic label-based tool assignment (#4070) (8244869)
*roles:* add user impersonation for role debugging, and export/duplicate (#4160) (9c347a5)
show 'New messages' label on scroll-to-bottom FAB (#4006) (90643ce)
split scope and owner filters on agents, LLM proxies, MCP gateways (#4071) (03c02fc)
support org-level MCP server connections (#3933) (b034cb4)

Bug Fixes

allow to attach team scoped mcps credentials to org (#4181) (6cdec47)
allow users to open or download files attached to chat messages (#4192) (74800da), closes #4124
chat permissions (#4142) (019c7dc)
complete Okta OIDC and OIN SSO support (#4191) (8ae6f37)
context too long error not communicated to user for all providers (#3988) (3d9242d)

6:09 PM

guard chat stream onError against AI SDK double invocation (#4047) (c8d5649)
hide connection page (#4154) (0aa688b)
MCP server assignment N+1 queries (#4086) (319f7ec)
prevent table cell overflow on agents (#4182) (ce9fe7b)
table actions column overflow (#4175) (f921af3)

Miscellaneous Chores

*backend:* make knip catch dead code (#4178) (4d98830)
capture raw provider errors as exceptions (#4174) (9b2f8c0)
capture raw provider errors in Sentry (#4083) (7a8d3c8)
configurable connection base url meta (#4203) (65cd69d)
dynamic mcp list (#4193) (c9218ad)
fix linter after a hotfix (#4157) (210d645)
gate advanced MCP Gateway / Agent tool UI behind feature flag (#4208) (259e720)
polish /connection page UX (#4209) (fdad086)
*release:* bump version (42cf561)
*release:* bump version (#4143) (c1115dd)
*release:* bump version (#4155) (8d9609a)
*release:* bump version (#4186) (c614b4e)

Samuel9:53 PMOpen in Slack

Hello archestra team ,sry to disturb I just wanted to check if there are any issues tagged with a bounty available for contribution

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Apoorva Verma12:58 AMOpen in Slack

Hey I'm Apoorva 😀— I recently started getting into open source contributions and Archestra caught my eye, especially the MCP gateway angle. Really cool project.

Tried to open a PR for #3491 (the model selector chip thing) but got blocked by the contributor restriction, so figured I'd say hi here first.

Bit about me:

• Mostly Python + TS day to day, CSAI background.

Took a look at #3491 and have a fix on a branch — tests pass, type-check clean.

Couple of things:

1. What's the move to get unblocked on PRs as a new contributor here?

2. Found a tiny chip flicker on reset I'd want to follow up on separately — bundle or split?

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Innokentii Konstantinov (archestra team)11:03 AMOpen in Slack

Hi, what's the contributor restriction you got blocked by?

Apoorva Verma4:53 PMOpen in Slack

Hey! It's the repo-level "Limit interactions to prior contributors" setting

Innokentii Konstantinov (archestra team)4:55 PMOpen in Slack

Oh, I see. We are asking contributors to go through mini-onboarding before - https://archestra.ai/contributor-onboard

Innokentii Konstantinov (archestra team)4:56 PMOpen in Slack

The issue actually has a banner explaining it

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Apoorva Verma5:00 PMOpen in Slack

Ah, I see—I missed that earlier. I’ve completed it now.

I’m still restricted; maybe it just needs some time to take effect.

Thanks for the help

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Ildar Iskhakov (archestra team)11:27 AMOpen in Slack

Welcome @user! Please comment under the issue so I could assign it for you

Ildar Iskhakov (archestra team)11:28 AMOpen in Slack

Let us know if you have any clarifications needed for that issue 😊

Apoorva Verma3:56 PMOpen in Slack

Hey @user,

Done