How do I install io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp?

Clone io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp from https://github.com/gabrielmahia/remit-mcp and configure it as an MCP server in your client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code).

Is io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp open source?

Yes, io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp is open source under the NOASSERTION license. Source code is available at https://github.com/gabrielmahia/remit-mcp.

What category does io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp belong to?

io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp is listed under Developer Tools MCP servers on MCPFind.

io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp — MCP Server for Developer Tools

💸 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.

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.

Set up in your AI client

AI clientOperating system

Merge this template into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. Keep existing servers. Add any arguments, credentials, and permissions required by the maintainer; this template has not been install-tested.

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-gabrielmahia-remit-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "remit-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect. Confirm the server appears connected in the client’s tool list, then try a read-only example from its documentation.

Claude Desktop setup reference

Compatible MCP Clients

io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp works with any MCP-compatible client. Copy the config snippet from the Configuration section above and add it to the file shown for your client, then restart the application.

Claude Desktop~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonRestart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect.

Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.jsonRestart Cursor for changes to take effect.

VS Code.vscode/mcp.jsonReload VS Code window for changes to take effect.

Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonRestart Windsurf for changes to take effect.

Claude Code.mcp.jsonSave at the project root, then start Claude Code in that project and review the MCP server approval prompt. Keep real credentials out of shared files.

io.github.gabrielmahia/remit-mcp