About BinaSmart
BinaSmart is a public MCP server for accessing services and information on Ethiopia's BinaSmart platform. It supports assistants handling Addis Ababa rides, local listings, jobs, tenders, housing, cars, guides, and news, including user-confirmed ride bookings.
Key features
- 01Quote, book, track, and cancel rides
- 02Find buildings, hotels, clinics, shops, and restaurants
- 03Search vacancies and open tenders
- 04Browse overseas employment agencies
- 05Find properties and cars for sale or rent
- 06Read guides, news, and commute groups
Use cases
- 01Check a ride fare and arrange a pickup in Addis Ababa
- 02Find local services, hotels, or health facilities
- 03Search jobs by field or city and review tender deadlines
- 04Look up property, vehicle, or overseas employment options
MCP support
Exposes BinaSmart ride, directory, jobs, health, market, content, guide, and agency tools to MCP clients over remote Streamable HTTP, without sign-in. Ride requests and cancellations are write tools and require user confirmation.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://bina.et/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http et-bina-binasmart https://bina.et/mcp{"mcpServers":{"et-bina-binasmart":{"type":"http","url":"https://bina.et/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"et-bina-binasmart":{"type":"http","url":"https://bina.et/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"et-bina-binasmart":{"type":"http","url":"https://bina.et/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"et-bina-binasmart":{"serverUrl":"https://bina.et/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.
Tools
27| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| pickup | string | Yes | Pickup: a place name in Addis Ababa (e.g. "Edna Mall", "Bole Airport", "Piassa") or "lat,lng" like "9.0108,38.7578". |
| dropoff | string | Yes | Drop-off: a place name in Addis Ababa (e.g. "Edna Mall", "Bole Airport", "Piassa") or "lat,lng" like "9.0108,38.7578". |
Details
From the project READMEBinaSmart MCP server
The public Model Context Protocol server for BinaSmart (bina.et), Ethiopia's all-in-one platform. Any MCP-capable assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and others) can use it to:
- Ride in Addis Ababa: quote fixed fares, book a ride (the user confirms first), check its status, cancel it
- Find places: buildings, hotels, hospitals and clinics, shops and restaurants, with their bina.et pages
- Jobs and tenders: open vacancies by field or city (Amharic or English), employers, open tenders with deadlines. Vacancies show as job cards in assistants that support MCP Apps
- Working abroad: licensed Ethiopian overseas employment agencies and their GCC partner offices
- Homes and cars: properties for sale or rent, cars for sale
- Guides and news: the bilingual Digital Ethiopia guides (Fayda, passport, telebirr, tax, …) and Amharic news
- BinaPool: shared commute corridors and groups
Endpoint: https://bina.et/mcp (Streamable HTTP, stateless, no sign-in needed)
Registry: et.bina/binasmart on the MCP Registry
Docs: GET https://bina.et/mcp · health: https://bina.et/mcp/health
Claude plugin
The plugin/ folder is a Claude plugin: the same MCP server plus five skills that show Claude how to use it for rides, jobs, paperwork, places and tenders. It contains no code, only Markdown skills and one MCP server entry.
Connect
In any client that accepts a remote MCP server, add the URL https://bina.et/mcp. For example, in Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
How it is built
mcp-server/server.mjs: the MCP endpoint (Express +@modelcontextprotocol/sdk)mcp-server/tools/: one file per tool group (ride, directory, jobs, health, market, content, guides, knowledge, agencies)mcp-server/widgets/andmcp-server/lib/widgets.mjs: the job-card page (MCP Apps) served asui://bina/jobs-v1.html, with the@modelcontextprotocol/ext-appsbrowser bundle inlinedmcp-server/lib/: phone normalisation, an idempotency key so retries never double-book, a per-caller rate limiter, the ride API clientapi/andhotels/rules.js: the shared usage meter, API-key check and hotel rules from the main BinaSmart app, which this server imports
The server runs next to the private BinaSmart application and reads its data and settings at runtime (database, ride API on localhost, the .env file). No credentials are in this repository. So this code documents exactly what the public endpoint does, but on its own it will not run against BinaSmart data.
Safety
request_rideandcancel_rideare marked as write tools (readOnlyHint: false), so clients ask the user before calling them.- The job-card page only reads the tool result: it opens bina.et links through the host and can reach no other site.
- Reviewers can test
request_ridewith the reserved number0900000099: it returns a clearly marked test booking and no driver is sent. - Bookings are limited per phone (5 per 10 minutes) and per caller (10 per hour). Retries with the same details within 10 minutes return the same booking instead of a second one.
- Only Ethiopian phone numbers are accepted for rides. Phone numbers are masked in logs.
- Privacy: bina.et/privacy · Terms: bina.et/terms · Support: bina.et/support
Standalone (tool definitions only)
node mcp-server/stdio.mjs starts the same tools over stdio without the BinaSmart database or .env, so MCP directories such as Glama can build it in their own container and read the tool definitions. Calls that need live data return an error pointing to https://bina.et/mcp.
Tests
cd mcp-server && npm install && node --test test/*.test.mjs
The tests use reserved test phone numbers only.
Licence
MIT. See LICENSE. © 2026 BinaSmart (Ibrahim Kedir).
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