Afro.tools — AI-ready infrastructure for African APIs

Integrate Wave, Paycard, and any African API in a single prompt.

African APIs are production-grade. What's been missing is a standard, machine-readable format that AI agents can consume directly — without parsing documentation pages or guessing at request shapes.

Afro.tools fills that gap: a static, open-source registry of structured specs for African APIs. Each spec is verified against the live API and exposes exactly what an AI agent needs to generate correct integration code on the first try.

How it works

graph LR
    A["specs/ — open source"] -->|GitHub raw URLs| B["MCP server\nmcp.afro.tools"]
    B -->|MCP protocol| C["AI agent\nClaude · Cursor · Copilot · ..."]
    C -->|generates| D["Integration code\nin your app"]
    A -->|plugin| C

Related MCP server: PayLink MCP Server

What is a spec?

A spec lives at specs/{category}/{provider}/{capability}/ and contains exactly two files:

• schema.json — ATSS-compliant description of the API capability (endpoint, auth, input/output schemas, gotchas)

• canonical_example.ts — TypeScript implementation using native fetch, compiles with tsc --noEmit

Each provider also has a provider.json at the root of its folder:

specs/payment/paycard/
├── provider.json                    ← metadata + description + example_prompt
├── create_payment/
│   ├── schema.json
│   └── canonical_example.ts
├── verify_payment/
└── webhook_payment_completed/

See ATSS.md for the full specification.

Providers

Legend: ✅ AI Ready = all capabilities verified · X verified · Y ready = awaiting production validation · 📋 Ready = spec validated · 🗓 Planned = specs coming soon

Use with an MCP client

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http afrotools https://mcp.afro.tools/mcp

Cursor / Windsurf / VS Code Copilot

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "afrotools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.afro.tools/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add afrotools/afrotools
/plugin install afrotools

Auto-activated skills based on context:

• payment — integrating a payment API

• sms — integrating an SMS API

• debug — when an integration based on an afrotools spec fails → diagnoses whether the problem is a spec error, a missing gotcha, or an undocumented API change

Manual commands:

• /afrotools:spec <provider> <capability> — inspect a full spec

• /afrotools:list — list all available specs

• /afrotools:new <category> <provider> <capability> — scaffold a new spec

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md to add a spec or improve an existing one.

Spec lifecycle: draft → ready → verified

A provider earns the AI Ready badge when all its capabilities reach verified.

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.