🇰🇪 Kenya devs: Add Huduma Namba / National ID to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

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🇰🇪 Kenya devs: Add Huduma Namba / National ID to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Every day, AI agents make decisions on our behalf — buying, sending emails, signing documents — and...

Every day, AI agents make decisions on our behalf — buying, sending emails, signing documents — and nobody verifies there's a real human behind them.

Soulprint solves this with Zero-Knowledge Proofs: 100% on-device, open source (MIT), free to run. soulprint.digital

🇰🇪 Kenya's Huduma Namba / National ID is not in Soulprint yet. You can add it in ~30 minutes with one PR.

What Soulprint does 

npx soulprint verify-me       # scan ID + face match — all local
# → SPT token (score 0-100)

# AI agent includes token in every call
# X-Soulprint: eyJ... (score: 84)

# API verifies in 3 lines:
import { requireSoulprint } from "soulprint-mcp";
server.tool("premium", requireSoulprint({ minScore: 80 }), handler);
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ZK proof: Circom 2.1.8 · Groth16 · 844 constraints · 564ms prove · 25ms verify.

🇰🇪 Kenya: Huduma Namba / National ID

National ID: 8 digits. Huduma Namba: 8 digits. Passport: 9 alphanumeric chars.

The code — fill in the blanks and open a PR 

// packages/verify-local/src/document/countries/KE.ts
import { CountryVerifier, DocumentResult, NumberValidation } from "../verifier.interface";

const KE: CountryVerifier = {
  countryCode:   "KE",
  countryName:   "Kenya",
  documentTypes: ["national_id", "huduma"],

  parse(ocrText: string): DocumentResult {
    // Huduma Namba / National ID format: National ID 8 digits
    const doc_number = ocrText.match(/(\d{8})/)?.[1] ?? "";
    return { valid: !!doc_number, doc_number, country: "KE" };
  },

  validate(docNumber: string): NumberValidation {
    // exactly 8 digits
    return { valid: /^\d{8}$/.test(docNumber) };
  },
};

export default KE;
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Then add one line in registry.ts:

import KE from "./countries/KE";
// add to registry map: "KE": KE,
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Open a PR → your country joins the global AI identity standard. 🌍

Why contribute?

  • Kenya joins the AI age — local developers can verify their AI agents
  • Permanent git credit — you're in the history forever
  • Decentralized identity — no Big Tech as gatekeeper
  • Fast — 30 min partial, 2-3h full with MRZ

Resources

One PR. One country. The future of AI identity is open source.