🇹🇿 Tanzania devs: Add NIDA National ID to the AI identity standard — Soulprint open source (30 min PR)

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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

🇹🇿 Tanzania's NIDA 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);

ZK proof: Circom 2.1.8 · Groth16 · 844 constraints · 564ms prove · 25ms verify.

🇹🇿 Tanzania: NIDA National ID

NIDA: 20 alphanumeric characters (format: XXXXXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XX). Birth certificate number also used.

The code — fill in the blanks and open a PR

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

const TZ: CountryVerifier = {
  countryCode:   "TZ",
  countryName:   "Tanzania",
  documentTypes: ["nida"],

  parse(ocrText: string): DocumentResult {
    // NIDA National ID format: 20 chars NIDA format
    const doc_number = ocrText.match(/([A-Z0-9]{8}-[A-Z0-9]{5}-[A-Z0-9]{5}-[A-Z0-9]{2})/)?.[1] ?? "";
    return { valid: !!doc_number, doc_number, country: "TZ" };
  },

  validate(docNumber: string): NumberValidation {
    // NIDA format 8-5-5-2
    return { valid: /^[A-Z0-9]{8}-[A-Z0-9]{5}-[A-Z0-9]{5}-[A-Z0-9]{2}$/.test(docNumber) };
  },
};

export default TZ;

Then add one line in registry.ts:

import TZ from "./countries/TZ";
// add to registry map: "TZ": TZ,

Open a PR → your country joins the global AI identity standard. 🌍

Why contribute?

Tanzania 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

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