jumuia-mcp

Why This Exists

Kenya's SACCOs and chamas move an enormous share of household savings and credit, yet the rules for forming one, the difference between a registered society and a limited company, and what members are actually entitled to are scattered across the Cooperative Societies Act, SASRA circulars and word of mouth. This server puts that guidance where an AI agent can reach it, in one call.

Install

pip install jumuia-mcp

Tools (5)

• sacco_finder — Find SACCOs (Savings and Credit Cooperatives) in Kenya by sector, county, or type.
  _{args: county, sector}
• chama_formation_guide — Return step-by-step guide to forming a chama (investment group) in Kenya.
  _{args: members, purpose}
• cooperative_benefits — Return benefits, structures, and types of cooperatives available in Kenya.
  _{args: coop_type}
• sacco_loan_guide — Return indicative terms for a Kenyan SACCO loan product.
  _{args: loan_type, sacco_name}
• cooperative_rights_query — Return the rights a Kenyan cooperative or SACCO member holds on a topic.
  _{args: topic}

Example

from jumuia_mcp.server import chama_formation_guide

result = chama_formation_guide(members=12, purpose='savings')
# steps, legal structures, registration fees, merry-go-round maths

Claude Desktop Integration

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jumuia-mcp": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "jumuia_mcp.server"]
    }
  }
}

Data & Disclaimers

Guidance is drawn from the Cooperative Societies Act and SASRA regulations. Fees and capital thresholds change — confirm with the Ministry of Cooperatives or sasra.or.ke before relying on a figure.

Every tool response carries a source field. Responses labelled DEMO are illustrative reference data, not a live feed — verify against the authority named in the response before acting on it.

Part of the East Africa Coordination Stack

This MCP server is part of 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 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 — the 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.