Kenya commodity price tools on synthetic demo data: prices, trends, comparison, sell or hold.
soko-mcp is a Kenya Commodity Price Intelligence MCP server. It supports the Model Context Protocol and is compatible with claude-sonnet-5. The repository targets commodity price intelligence for Kenya and is distributed as a Python package.
🛠️ Key Features
Kenya-focused commodity price intelligence via MCP
Compatible with claude-sonnet-5 (released 2026-06-30)
Available as a Python package: pip install soko-mcp
🚀 Use Cases
Supplying Kenya commodity price information to AI agents
Integrating Kenya commodity price intelligence into MCP-based workflows
⚡ Developer Benefits
Works with any MCP client
Python install and use (pip install soko-mcp)
⚠️ Limitations
No additional tool capabilities, tool count, or dataset scope details are provided in the available source data.
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 soko-mcp · Use with any MCP client.
A farmer deciding whether to sell or hold needs current prices across multiple markets simultaneously. That comparison exists nowhere as a single queryable source.
Soko = market in Swahili.
A farmer in Nakuru doesn't know that maize prices in Nairobi are 40% higher that week. Traders know. Farmers don't. This information asymmetry is one of the most costly structural disadvantages facing smallholder farmers. soko-mcp closes it.
The Structural Problem
In mature commodity markets, price discovery is instantaneous — futures markets, satellite price tickers, and SMS alerts exist for every major exchange. A grain elevator in Iowa checks live CME prices before making any offer.
In Kenya, most smallholder farmers receive the price the trader offers, with no independent benchmark to compare against. The result: systematic underpricing at harvest, systematic overpricing at planting.
Information asymmetry is a tax on the poor.
Tools
Tool
What it does
commodity_price_query
Current price for commodity at a specific market
regional_price_comparison
Compare prices across all major Kenya markets
price_trend_analysis
6-month history + 3-month forecast with seasonal model
sell_hold_decision
Optimal sell/hold timing given storage costs and price trend
market_overview
Multi-commodity price snapshot for a market
Quick Start
bash
pip install soko-mcp # coming soon to PyPI
soko-mcp # starts on stdio
Example Queries for Claude
code
"What is the current Nairobi maize price?"
"Should I sell my 50 bags of beans now or wait 2 months?"
"Compare potato prices across all Kenya markets"
"Give me a price trend for avocados in Nakuru for the next 3 months"
Research Basis
EAGC East Africa Regional Market Monitor
World Bank "Information and Communication Technology and Agricultural Markets" (2016)
Suri & Jack "Mobile Phones and Agricultural Performance" (2016)
⚠️ DEMO data — synthetic seasonal model. Verify at eagc.org, kalro.org, or local market boards.
This MCP server is part of the Kenya coordination infrastructure.
It connects to africa-coord-bus — the coordination
event bus that routes signals between domains automatically.
When this server detects a threshold condition, the bus notifies:
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
