List all configured payment providers with their status, supported countries, and currencies. Use this to see which providers are available and ready to use.
AI agents call list_providers to retrieve information from Africa Payments MCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool queries and returns metadata about payment providers (status, countries, currencies). It performs no writes, deletions, code execution, or financial operations. It is a straightforward read operation that simply enumerates configured system state.
From the tool's definition Tool description states 'List all configured payment providers with their status, supported countries, and currencies' and 'Use this to see which providers are available' — purely informational retrieval with no modification or financial transaction…
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List all configured payment providers with their status, supported countries, and currencies. Use this to see which providers are available and ready to use. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Africa Payments MCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Africa Payments MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for list_providers: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Africa Payments MCP. Nothing to install.
list_providers is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the list_providers rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for list_providers. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
list_providers is provided by the Africa Payments MCP server (kenyaclaw/africa-payments-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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