Tafsiri MCP Server

tafsiri-mcp

Why This Exists

Kenyan civic and legal life happens in Swahili, Kikuyu, Luo and English at once, but the terminology that matters — what a succession petition is called, what a gazette notice means — rarely appears in general translation tools. Getting a civic term wrong in the wrong language has consequences a mistranslated menu does not.

Install

pip install tafsiri-mcp

Tools (6)

• swahili_english_glossary — Translate civic and government terminology between Swahili and English.
  args: term
• kikuyu_language_guide — Return linguistic information and key phrases for the Kikuyu language.
  args: term
• luo_language_guide — Return linguistic information and key phrases for the Luo language.
  args: term
• official_document_glossary — Return standard terminology for Kenya official documents and certificates.
  args: document_type
• language_detection_guide — Identify which Kenyan language a text sample is written in.
  args: text_sample
• civic_terminology_swahili — Return Swahili terminology for Kenya government processes and civic interactions.
  args: process

Example

from tafsiri_mcp.server import swahili_english_glossary

result = swahili_english_glossary(term='urithi')
# civic term, translation, how it is used, documents needed

Claude Desktop Integration

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

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

Data & Disclaimers

Glossaries are reference material for civic navigation, not certified translation. For court filings or official submissions, use a sworn translator.

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.