afro.tools

io.github.afrotoolsPublished by GitHub account afrotoolsv1.0.1Updated Nov 1, 2026

Open-source API specs for African providers (payments, SMS, KYC, delivery) for AI agents.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Remote MCP server exposing open-source, AI-ready API specs for African payment, SMS, KYC, delivery and language providers so assistants can write integration…

What you can do
  • List providers and their verification status, with per-capability status flags
  • Search specs by keyword and filter by category, channel, provider, country, currency, status or capability type
  • Fetch a full spec for a provider and capability, including auth pattern, endpoint, schemas, gotchas and a TypeScript example
  • Request a spec that does not exist yet, which logs it and notifies maintainers
  • Build a pre-filled GitHub link so the user can report whether an integration worked or the spec was wrong
When to use it
Useful when an assistant is asked to integrate an African provider's API — payments, SMS/WhatsApp/USSD, identity verification, delivery or speech — and needs structured, machine-readable specs instead of parsing documentation pages. Also handy for checking how far a spec has been verified before relying on it.
Requirements
A remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no package install. Connect an MCP client to the hosted URL (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot). No authentication, environment variables or headers are declared. Network access to the endpoint is needed.
Before you install
Specs that are not marked verified were written from provider documentation and never tested against the real API, so generated code may be wrong; the server tells assistants to warn users about this. The report tool only builds a GitHub link and the server instructs assistants never to submit reports themselves. Requests for missing specs are logged and sent to maintainers.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open afro.tools in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.afrotools%2Fafrotools/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "afro-tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.afro.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Afro.tools — AI-ready infrastructure for African APIs

Integrate Wave, Paycard, and any African API in a single prompt.

African APIs are production-grade. What's been missing is a standard, machine-readable format that AI agents can consume directly — without parsing documentation pages or guessing at request shapes.

Afro.tools fills that gap: a static, open-source registry of structured specs for African APIs, written from each provider's official documentation. Every provider is AI Ready: an agent gets a structured description of exactly what it needs to generate integration code. A spec can still contain errors — its status says how far it has been checked (verified = tested against the provider's API by a maintainer).


How it works

mermaid
graph LR    A["specs/ — open source"] -->|GitHub raw URLs| B["MCP server\nmcp.afro.tools"]    B -->|MCP protocol| C["AI agent\nClaude · Cursor · Copilot · ..."]    C -->|generates| D["Integration code\nin your app"]    A -->|plugin| C

What is a spec?

A spec lives at specs/{category}/{provider}/{capability}/ and contains exactly two files:

  • schema.json — ATSS-compliant description of the API capability (endpoint, auth, input/output schemas, gotchas)
  • canonical_example.ts — TypeScript implementation using native fetch, compiles with tsc --noEmit

Each provider also has a provider.json at the root of its folder:

specs/payment/paycard/├── provider.json                    ← metadata + description + example_prompt├── create_payment/│   ├── schema.json│   └── canonical_example.ts├── verify_payment/└── webhook_payment_completed/

See ATSS.md for the full specification.


Providers

ProviderCategoryCountryCapabilitiesStatus
Paycardpayment🇬🇳3✅ All verified
SasPaypayment🇧🇫 🇧🇯 🇨🇩 +15137 verified · 6 ready
Smile IDidentity🇨🇮 🇸🇳 🇬🇳 +3117 verified · 4 ready
Bictoryspayment🇸🇳 🇨🇮 🇲🇱 +343 verified · 1 ready
Djomypayment🇬🇳73 verified · 4 ready
Infobipcommunications🇦🇴 🇧🇫 🇧🇮 +51132 verified · 11 ready
LengoPaypayment🇬🇳82 verified · 6 ready
Africa's Talkingcommunications🇧🇫 🇧🇯 🇨🇮 +1771 verified · 6 ready
Flutterwavepayment🇳🇬 🇬🇭 🇰🇪 +1533📋 Ready
Intronlanguage🇦🇴 🇧🇫 🇧🇮 +517📋 Ready
KadevPaypayment🇨🇮3📋 Ready
NimbaSMScommunications🇬🇳11📋 Ready
Notch Paypayment🇨🇲 🇨🇮 🇸🇳 +331📋 Ready
Orange Money Malipayment🇲🇱2📋 Ready
PayGatepayment🇹🇬6📋 Ready
Qosicpayment🇹🇬4📋 Ready
Wavepayment🇸🇳 🇨🇮 🇲🇱 +812📋 Ready
Yango Deliverylogistics🇨🇮 🇬🇭 🇸🇳 +18📋 Ready

Legend: ✅ All verified = all capabilities verified · X verified · Y ready = Y specs not yet tested against the API · 📋 Ready = written from the docs, not yet tested · 🗓 Planned = specs coming soon


Use with an MCP client

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http afrotools https://mcp.afro.tools/mcp

Cursor / Windsurf / VS Code Copilot

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "afrotools": {      "type": "http",      "url": "https://mcp.afro.tools/mcp"    }  }}

Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add afrotools/afrotools/plugin install afrotools

Auto-activated skills based on context:

  • payment — integrating a payment API
  • communications — integrating an SMS, WhatsApp, USSD, voice or email API
  • identity — integrating an identity verification (KYC, document, AML) API
  • logistics — integrating a delivery or courier API (price, book, track, cancel deliveries)
  • language — integrating a speech-to-text or text-to-speech API for African languages
  • debug — when an integration based on an afrotools spec fails → diagnoses whether the problem is a spec error, a missing gotcha, or an undocumented API change

Manual commands:

  • /afrotools:spec <provider> <capability> — inspect a full spec
  • /afrotools:list — list all available specs
  • /afrotools:new <category> <provider> <capability> — scaffold a new spec

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md to add a spec or improve an existing one.

Integrated a provider? Report it — worked or not, sandbox or production. A report that worked can make the spec verified, credited to you; one that did not gets the spec fixed.

Spec lifecycle: draft → ready → verified

Every provider in the registry is AI Ready: its specs give an agent a structured, machine-readable description to integrate it. AI Ready is not a guarantee that a spec is error-free — verified marks the specs tested against the provider's API — by a maintainer or through an accepted integration report — and says where: sandbox or production.


License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.

Source: README.md at commit b90a35a

Tools

5

list_providers

List Providers

Lists all providers and their verification status. Every listed provider is AI Ready: its specs give you a structured description to integrate it from. They can still contain errors — that is what each capability's "status" reports. all_verified is true only when ALL its capabilities have status "verified". Providers with any capability not yet "verified" have all_verified false — call search_specs or get_spec and check each capability's "status": one that is not "verified" has not been tested against the provider's API. Returns: { providers: Array<{ slug, name, category, channels?, all_verified, verified_count, capabilities, country_code, docs_public, docs_url }> }

Takes no parameters.

search_specs

Search Specs

Searches specs by words and filters by category, channel, provider, country, currency, status or capability type. Returns the matching providers, each with its countries, currencies, sandbox flag, docs URL and the matching capabilities (name, type, status, example_prompt) — no endpoints, schemas, gotchas or canonical_example source. Use get_spec with the exact capability name to retrieve the full payload. A capability with "variants" has several request/response shapes (e.g. one per payment method or corridor): pass the ones you need to get_spec "variant" to receive only those. Each result includes a "status" field: - "verified": tested against the provider's API, in "sandbox" or "production" (verified_in / verification.environment) - "deprecated": the provider is retiring it — get_spec says what replaces it - anything else (e.g. "ready", "unverified"): written from the provider's documentation, NOT tested against the live API — may contain errors Always check the status field. If status is not "verified", inform the user that the spec is experimental and may contain errors. Args: - query (string?): Words, e.g. "wave", "mobile money senegal", "send sms", "kyc", "XOF". Every word must match somewhere: provider name or slug, capability, description, example_prompt, countries (code or English/French name), currencies, channels (a few synonyms: momo, otp, kyc, payout…). Providers the query names come first. - category (string?): Filter by category, e.g. "payment", "communications" (SMS, WhatsApp, USSD, voice and email providers — "sms" is accepted as a legacy alias), "identity" (KYC, document verification, AML), "logistics" (delivery and courier providers). The registry adds categories over time: list_providers shows every category that exists - channel ("sms"|"whatsapp"|"ussd"|"voice"|"email"?): Only providers that offer this channel - provider (string?): Provider slug e.g. "paycard" - country_code (string?): ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 e.g. "GN"

Parametersquerystatuschannelcategorycurrencyprovidercountry_codecapability_type

get_spec

Get Spec

Returns the full spec payload for a provider + capability, including canonical_example.ts source code. Use this to get the complete integration guide — auth pattern, endpoint, schemas, gotchas, and a TypeScript example — before writing API calls. The response includes a "status" field: - "verified": tested against the provider's API, in "sandbox" or "production" (verified_in / verification.environment) - "deprecated": the provider is retiring it — "deprecation" gives the reason, replaced_by (the capability to use instead) and removed_after - anything else (e.g. "ready", "unverified"): written from the provider's documentation, NOT tested against the live API "verification" says how and when it was tested; sandbox proves the request and response shapes, not production behaviour. "open_questions", when present, lists what the provider's docs do not answer: tell the user before relying on the spec. "environments", when present, gives each documented environment's base URL; a missing one is undocumented — ask the user, never guess. "auth.credentials" / "signing" / "token_exchange" / "apply" and "webhook.signature", when present, describe the auth and webhook signature steps exactly: follow them. "parameters", when present, lists the path, query and header parameters; "input_schema" is the request body only. A path parameter fills the {name} placeholder of endpoint.url. "success_condition", when present, names the response field (dotted path) that says the call succeeded: a 2xx response with another value is a failure. If status is not "verified", always warn the user before generating integration code: "This spec has not been tested against the live API yet and may contain errors." Args: - provider (string): Provider slug e.g. "paycard" - capability (string): Capability name e.g. "create_payment" - variant (string[]?): Discriminator values to keep, e.g. ["mobile_money_ghs"] or ["bank", "NGN"]. In every union (oneOf) of input_schema and response_schema

Parametersvariantproviderrequiredcapabilityrequired

request_spec

Request Spec

Logs a request for a spec that doesn't exist yet and notifies maintainers. Call this when a user asks for a provider or capability that has no spec in the registry (check list_providers first). This helps maintainers prioritize which specs to write next. Args: - provider (string): Provider slug e.g. "wave" - capability (string): Capability name e.g. "create_payment" Returns: { logged: true, count } if the request was recorded — count is the all-time number of requests for this exact provider+capability, including this one, so you can tell the user e.g. "you're the Nth person to ask for this". count is absent if it could not be reliably determined — in that case do NOT guess a number to the user, just confirm the request was logged. { logged: false, reason } if the spec already exists. isError if the request could not be stored: tell the user it was NOT recorded.

Parametersproviderrequiredcapabilityrequired

report_integration

Report Integration

Builds a pre-filled GitHub link to report how an integration went against a spec — it worked, or the spec is wrong. Call it when the user confirms an integration works against the real API (sandbox or production), or when you find the spec does not match the API. Reports are how specs get verified and fixed. Nothing is posted: the user reviews the text and submits it on GitHub. One report per provider, covering every capability of the flow (e.g. payment init, status, webhook): each one is verified on its own. Args: - provider (string): Provider slug e.g. "paycard" - capabilities (array): Every capability the integration used, each with its own result e.g. [{ "capability": "create_payment", "result": "worked" }, { "capability": "webhook", "result": "wrong: status is SUCCESSFUL, spec says succeeded" }] - summary (string): One line about the flow, e.g. "checkout flow works in sandbox" - details (string): What was called, what came back, what differed from the spec. NEVER include API keys, tokens, phone numbers or personal data. - tested_on (string?): Date of the test, YYYY-MM-DD Returns: { url, next_step } — give the url to the user and follow next_step. If a spec does not exist: isError, with { error, available_capabilities } when the provider exists.

Parametersdetailsrequiredsummaryrequiredproviderrequiredtested_oncapabilitiesrequired

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.1LatestNov 1, 2026

Score

100% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts