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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.
What can you do with remit mcp?
💸 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.
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.
© 2026 Gabriel Mahia / AI Kung Fu LLC · MIT License
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.
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 underio.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.
Install
Add remit mcp to your client. Pick the one you use.
claude mcp add remit-mcp -- uvx remit-mcpcodex mcp add remit-mcp -- uvx remit-mcpamp mcp add remit-mcp -- uvx remit-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"remit-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"remit-mcp"
]
}
}
}Add to `claude_desktop_config.json`, then restart Claude Desktop.
{
"mcpServers": {
"remit-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"remit-mcp"
]
}
}
}Add to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`, or `.cursor/mcp.json` for a single project.
code --add-mcp '{"name":"remit-mcp","command":"uvx","args":["remit-mcp"]}'Or add the block manually to `.vscode/mcp.json` under `servers`.
{
"mcpServers": {
"remit-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"remit-mcp"
]
}
}
}Add to `~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json`.
{
"mcpServers": {
"remit-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"remit-mcp"
]
}
}
}Add to `cline_mcp_settings.json` via the MCP Servers panel.
{
"mcpServers": {
"remit-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"remit-mcp"
]
}
}
}Add to `~/.gemini/settings.json`.
{
"mcpServers": {
"remit-mcp": {
"type": "local",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"remit-mcp"
],
"tools": [
"*"
]
}
}
}Add to `~/.copilot/mcp-config.json`, or run `/mcp add` inside the CLI.
{
"context_servers": {
"remit-mcp": {
"command": {
"path": "uvx",
"args": [
"remit-mcp"
]
}
}
}
}Add to your Zed `settings.json`.
uvx remit-mcpRun `goose configure`, choose **Add Extension → Command-line Extension**, and paste this command.
3 tools
remit mcp exposes 3 tools to a connected agent.
- 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
Score
55 / 100
Adequate
- Documentation17/25
- Maintenance16/25
- Trust6/20
- Capability4/15
- Install experience12/15
- Documents what it does and how to connect
- Has a resolvable package or endpoint
- Exposes at least one tool, prompt or resource
- README has substantive content
- Includes a code example
- Documents its configuration
- Mentions credentials or security posture
- Last commit 44 days ago
- Has a release history
- Repository is not archived
- No licence detected
- Namespace verified in the official MCP registry
- Claimed by its owner
- Published under an organisation
- 3 tool(s) documented
- Provides prompt templates
- Provides resources
- 12 documented install method(s)
- Published to a package registry
- Offers a hosted endpoint — no local install
Version history
| Versions | Published |
|---|---|
| 0.1.3Latest | Jul 18, 2026 |
| 0.1.2 | Jul 4, 2026 |