💸 remit-mcp

Compatible with claude-sonnet-5 (released 2026-06-30) — Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet yet. Runs multi-step tool chains end-to-end without stopping short. Install: pip install remit-mcp · Use with any MCP client.

Remittance corridor fees to East Africa often run well above the UN SDG 10.c target of 3% by 2030 — but comparing corridors requires checking each provider manually.

Terminal

pip install remit-mcp
remit-mcp

Tools

Tool	What it does
`compare_remittance_corridors`	Compare all providers for US→KE, UK→KE, CA→KE corridors
`estimate_savings`	Calculate annual savings by switching providers
`list_corridors`	List all supported corridors

Research Basis

World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide — Global database of corridor costs. SDG target: reduce to 3% by 2030. Current global average: 6.3%. Kenya corridors: 4.1–9.1%.
World Bank Migration & Development Brief 2025 — Kenya received USD 4.2B in remittances in 2024. Top-10 African recipient.
"Democratizing AI in Africa" arXiv:2408.17216 — AI tools for financial inclusion in resource-constrained settings.
IrokoBench arXiv:2406.03368 — Swahili AI capability benchmark; multilingual financial AI for Africa.

DEMO Note

Current data is synthetic, representative of World Bank RPW Kenya corridor patterns. Real implementation queries: remittanceprices.worldbank.org API + live FX feeds.

Part of the East Africa Coordination Stack

This MCP server is one of 32 tools in the Kenya coordination infrastructure. Connect it to africa-coord-bus — the coordination event bus that routes signals between domains automatically.

Terminal

pip install africa-coord-bus

All 32 servers: pypi.org/user/gmahia Live demo: coord-cascade-demo

IP & Collaboration

MIT licensed. Feedback via GitHub Issues only — pull requests are not accepted. Demo data is labeled DEMO and is not suitable for operational decisions. Full policy: docs/architecture/IP_POLICY.md. Security reports: see SECURITY.md.

Part of the East Africa coordination stack

Install & run: pip install reli-cli && reli list — 33 MCP servers on the official MCP Registry under io.github.gabrielmahia
Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo · dataset · leaderboard
Coordinate across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
Datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia · Docs hub: nairobi-stack

Model-agnostic by design: closed APIs, open-weight models, and small distilled models are all first-class citizens.