odnelazm-mcp

odnelazm-mcp

MCP server for accessing Kenyan Parliament hansard data. Exposes tools to list sittings, fetch transcripts, and look up member profiles for use with any MCP-compatible LLM client.

Source routing is automatic: archive (info.mzalendo.com) is used for sittings before 2013-03-28, current (mzalendo.com) for those after, and both are merged in parallel for ranges that span the cutoff.

Tools

Tool	Description
list_sittings	List parliamentary sittings with automatic source routing. Supports date range filtering, house filtering, and pagination. Cross-era ranges merge both sources in parallel.
get_sitting	Fetch the full transcript of a sitting including sections, contributions, and procedural notes. Source is detected automatically from the URL.
list_members	List MPs by house and parliament session. Set all: true to fetch all pages at once.
get_all_members	Fetch all members from both houses in parallel for a given parliament session. parliament defaults to "13th-parliament".
get_member_profile	Fetch a member's full profile: biography, positions, committees, voting patterns, and sponsored bills. Set all_activity or all_bills to paginate fully.

Installation

cargo install --git https://github.com/mwananchi-tech/odnelazm odnelazm-mcp-local

For the HTTP/SSE server:

cargo install --git https://github.com/mwananchi-tech/odnelazm odnelazm-mcp-web

Usage

Stdio transport

odnelazm-mcp-local

HTTP transport

odnelazm-mcp-web

The server listens on 127.0.0.1:8055 by default. Override with BIND_ADDRESS:

BIND_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0:8080 odnelazm-mcp-web

The SSE endpoint is available at /sse.

Connecting clients

Claude Desktop

Uses the stdio transport. Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "odnelazm": {
      "command": "/full/path/to/odnelazm-mcp-local"
    }
  }
}

Find the full path after installing:

which odnelazm-mcp-local

Restart Claude Desktop after saving.

Claude Web (claude.ai)

A hosted instance is available at:

https://odnelazm.c12i.xyz/sse

To connect:

1. Go to Settings > Connectors > Add Custom Connector
2. Enter the SSE endpoint: https://odnelazm.c12i.xyz/sse

To self-host instead, build the Docker image and deploy it to any cloud host, then point your connector at your own /sse endpoint.

Other clients

Most MCP-compatible clients (Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, etc.) support either stdio or SSE. For stdio, point to the odnelazm-mcp-local binary. For SSE, use the hosted endpoint above or your own deployment.

Context window considerations

Hansard transcripts and member profiles are large. Fetching multiple sittings or the full member list in a single conversation can easily exceed the context window of most models.

• Prefer narrow date ranges when listing sittings rather than fetching all at once.
• Fetch one sitting transcript at a time when analysing debate content.
• all_activity: true and all_bills: true on member profiles can return a large volume of data. Only use these when exhaustive detail is necessary.

For broad cross-sitting queries, a local model with a large context window (1M+ tokens) handles it significantly better than a standard cloud model.

Configuration

Variable	Default	Description
BIND_ADDRESS	127.0.0.1:8055	Bind address for HTTP server
RUST_LOG	debug	Log level

Docker

docker build -t odnelazm-mcp .
docker run -p 8055:8055 -e BIND_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0:8055 odnelazm-mcp