mkopo-mcp 0.1.3

MCP server for alternative credit scoring in Kenya — M-PESA-based behavioral signals

💳 mkopo-mcp — Alternative Credit Scoring MCP Server

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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 mkopo-mcp · Use with any MCP client.

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Most East Africans transacting heavily on mobile money have no formal credit file — the data exists in M-PESA history, but no scoring model reads it as an agent-callable tool.

70%+ of Kenyan adults are "credit invisible" — no formal credit history means no access to capital. M-PESA is a de facto financial history record that predicts repayment behaviour. mkopo-mcp makes that intelligence accessible to AI agents.

The Structural Problem

In mature economies, credit bureaus have 30+ years of credit card, mortgage, and auto loan data per person. That data machine took 50 years to build. In Kenya, most people's financial lives happen in cash and mobile money — invisible to formal credit systems.

M-PESA is the credit bureau that doesn't know it is one.

• Regular income deposits → income stability
• Utility payment regularity → discipline signal
• Savings behaviour (M-Shwari, chama) → future orientation
• Fuliza usage ratio → short-term distress indicator
• Business Paybill receipts → verifiable commercial activity

Tools

Tool	What it does
alternative_credit_score	Score from M-PESA behavioural signals (300–850 scale)
mpesa_creditworthiness	Analyse inflow/outflow patterns for loan capacity
credit_report_summary	Generate structured report like a loan officer would review
loan_eligibility	Match to appropriate Kenya lender types
credit_improvement_tips	Personalised steps to improve credit tier

Quick Start

pip install mkopo-mcp       # coming soon to PyPI
mkopo-mcp                   # starts on stdio

Research Basis

• World Bank "Expanding Access to Finance" (2022)
• Breza & Kinnan "Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit" (2021)
• CBK Prudential Guidelines (2022)
• Kenya CRB Act (Cap. 44A)

⚠️ DEMO data — not a real CRB product. Consult Metropol or CRB Africa for official reports.

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© 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 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.