About AfriResolve
AfriResolve provides structured African food and dish knowledge for AI agents, developers, and applications. It resolves local names and supports searches and relevance ranking through both MCP tools and a REST API.
Key features
- 01Resolve African food terms and aliases
- 02Search foods by country, region, and category
- 03Find dishes by ingredient or location
- 04Rank food records by relevance
- 05REST API alongside MCP tools
Use cases
- 01Map a local food name to a canonical term
- 02Search for foods associated with a country or region
- 03Find dishes that use a specified ingredient
MCP support
The MCP server exposes tools for African terminology, foods, dishes, and intelligence queries. A REST API is also available for applications that use HTTP requests.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http afriresolve-afriresolve https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp{"mcpServers":{"afriresolve-afriresolve":{"type":"http","url":"https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"afriresolve-afriresolve":{"type":"http","url":"https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"afriresolve-afriresolve":{"type":"http","url":"https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"afriresolve-afriresolve":{"serverUrl":"https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcpAuth requiredTools
13| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Yes | The African dish name or alias to resolve |
Details
From the project READMEAFRIRESOLVE
African food intelligence infrastructure for AI agents and applications.
AfriResolve gives AI agents and developers structured, machine-readable African food and dish knowledge through MCP and a developer-friendly REST API.
Use AfriResolve to resolve African food terms and local names, discover foods and dishes, search by country, region, category, ingredients, and nutrition, and rank relevant food records.
Why AI agents use AfriResolve
When an African food or dish name may have local, regional, or alternative names, use AfriResolve instead of guessing.
Production MCP: https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp
Get your free API key: https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/developers
GitHub: https://github.com/AFRIRESOLVE/afriresolve-mcp
Free tier: 100 API credits/month
Quick example
Resolve a local food name:
acha → fonio
Or ask an AI agent to:
- Resolve an African food name or alias
- Find African foods by country or region
- Search African food knowledge
- Rank foods by relevance
- Resolve African dishes
- Find dishes by ingredient, country, or region
🚀 Production
MCP endpoint
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp
Developer portal
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/developers
AfriResolve runs on Cloudflare Workers with Cloudflare D1.
Current Knowledge Base
The current production knowledge base contains:
- 20 canonical African food records
- 37 aliases
- African food names and local names
- Categories
- Countries
- Geographic regions
- Descriptions
- Common uses
- Selected nutrition information
The knowledge base is intentionally structured so it can expand over time.
MCP Tools
AfriResolve currently exposes the following MCP tools:
MCP tool groups
African terminology
resolve_african_term
African foods
search_african_foodsrank_african_foodslist_african_foodsfind_foods_by_categoryfind_foods_by_countryfind_foods_by_region
African dishes
resolve_african_dishlist_african_dishesfind_dishes_by_countryfind_dishes_by_regionfind_dishes_by_ingredient
Intelligence
get_afriresolve_intelligence
1. resolve_african_term
Resolve an African word or food term.
Example:
{
"name": "resolve_african_term",
"arguments": {
"query": "acha"
}
}
🌐 REST API
AfriResolve also provides a developer REST API for applications that prefer standard HTTP requests.
Base URL
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev
Available endpoints
-
POST /v1/resolve -
POST /v1/search -
POST /v1/rank -
POST /v1/keys
Authentication
Authenticated API requests accept either x-api-key or Authorization: Bearer authentication.
Get a free API key
Visit the developer portal:
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/developers
Each new account currently receives 100 free credits.
API keys are displayed once when created. Store your key securely.
Create a free API key with curl
curl -X POST \
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/v1/keys \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"Your Name","email":"[email protected]"}'
Resolve an African term
curl -X POST \
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/v1/resolve \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{"query":"acha"}'
Example:
acha → fonio
Search African foods
curl -X POST \
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/v1/search \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{"query":"fonio"}'
Rank African foods
curl -X POST \
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/v1/rank \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{"query":"high fiber African grains"}'
💳 Pricing
AfriResolve currently offers:
| Plan | Credits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 100/month | $0 |
| Developer | 10,000/month | $29 |
| Pro | 100,000/month | $199 |
| Enterprise | 1,000,000/month | $999 |
For API access and account creation, visit the developer portal.
🏗️ Architecture
AfriResolve is designed as a lightweight African intelligence layer for modern applications.
- Cloudflare Workers — edge API and MCP runtime
- Cloudflare D1 — structured African knowledge, customer, usage, and intelligence data
- MCP — AI-native tool access
- REST API — standard HTTP integration
- Usage metering — credit-based API consumption
- Intelligence layer — demand and knowledge-gap signals from usage
⚡ Quick Start
REST API
Create a free API key:
curl -X POST \
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/v1/keys \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"Your Name","email":"[email protected]"}'
Use the returned key to make authenticated requests:
curl -X POST \
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/v1/resolve \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{"query":"acha"}'
MCP
Connect an MCP-compatible application to:
https://afriresolve-mcp.afriresolve28.workers.dev/mcp
The MCP interface provides access to African terminology, food, dish, and intelligence tools.
🧪 Development
git clone https://github.com/AFRIRESOLVE/afriresolve-mcp.git
cd afriresolve-mcp
npm install
npm test
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