# `io.github.afrotools/afrotools` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.afrotools/afrotools
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.afrotools/afrotools
- Version: 1.0.1 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.afrotools (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/afrotools/afrotools
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-31T21:17:38.639Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
afro.tools
Open-source API specs for African providers (payments, SMS, KYC, delivery) for AI agents.
```

Scanned 2026-10-31T21:18:08.985Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 2 change things and 3 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 3 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__afrotools__request_spec` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

- **info** Long descriptions in `search_specs` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,665 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...abilities whose status is not "verified"; warning is present only when it is > 0."
```

- **info** The word "credentials" in `get_spec` ([credentials-mention](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#credentials-mention))

```untrusted-server-text
The description mentions "credentials".

description: "...nted — ask the user, never guess. "auth.credentials" / "signing" / "token_exchange" / "appl..."
```

- **info** Long descriptions in `get_spec` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 2,917 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "...h_specs or list_providers first to discover available providers and capabilities."
```


## Changes things (2)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `report_integration`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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.
```

### `request_spec`

- The name "request_spec" says "request": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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.
```

## Only reads (3)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_spec`

- The name "get_spec" says "get": a word for reading.
- Findings: info credentials-mention, info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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, only the branches pinned to one of
    these values are kept; a union none of them matches is left whole. Without it, all branches are
    returned. The response lists every value under "variants" (discriminator property → values).
    A large spec also carries "_mcp_size_note": if your client cut the result, call again with the
    variant you need.

Returns: Full Spec object with canonical_example string (plus _mcp_warning when status is not
"verified"). If not found: isError, with { error, available_capabilities } when the provider exists
— capability names are each provider's own, pick one from that list — and did_you_mean (closest
provider slugs or capability names) when one is close. A capability removed from the registry
after a provider deprecation answers isError with removed_in, reason and alternatives.
Use search_specs or list_providers first to discover available providers and capabilities.
```

### `list_providers`

- The name "list_providers" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 }> }
```

### `search_specs`

- The name "search_specs" says "search": a word for reading.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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"
  - currency (string?): ISO 4217 e.g. "XOF"
  - status ("verified"|"ready"|"unverified"?): e.g. "verified" for specs tested against the provider's API
  - capability_type ("synchronous"|"asynchronous"|"webhook"|"sdk"?): Filter by capability type

Returns: { providers: ProviderMatch[], note?: string, hint?: string, unverified_count: number, warning?: string }
note is present when example_prompt was left out to keep a wide result readable.
hint is present when nothing matched: widen the search before telling the user a provider is unavailable.
unverified_count counts matching capabilities whose status is not "verified"; warning is present
only when it is > 0.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `afrotools`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__afrotools__list_providers",
      "mcp__afrotools__search_specs",
      "mcp__afrotools__get_spec"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__afrotools__request_spec",
      "mcp__afrotools__report_integration"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__afrotools__request_spec`: untrusted-input