Kapruka, first Lankan tech company to open store to AI agents

Kapruka Holdings PLC (CSE: KPHL) has become the first technology company in Sri Lanka to run a public Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The move makes its product catalogue, delivery and checkout available directly to AI agents, and the company has invited Sri Lankan developers to build on it through a competition called the Kapruka Agent Challenge.

 What it means in practice is that an AI agent anywhere in the world can now search Kapruka's products, check delivery to a Sri Lankan address, place a guest order with a secure payment link, and track it, all through a normal conversation.

To show the platform working in the open, and to encourage developers to build on it, Kapruka launched the Kapruka Agent Challenge.

“We have spent two years re-adjusting the business for AI, and this is about getting ready for what comes next,” said Dulith Herath, Chairman and CEO of Kapruka Holdings PLC. “Shopping is starting to move from people clicking through websites to AI assistants doing it for them. We have made Kapruka one of the first stores in this part of the world that those assistants can actually buy from. Rather than keep it in-house, we opened it up and asked Sri Lanka's developers to show us what they can build with it.”

The platform was built at low cost, in line with the company's capital-light approach, and it gives Kapruka real optionality for the years ahead: an early position in agentic commerce, the start of a developer community around its platform, and a way for AI agents anywhere to transact on its systems in both rupees and dollars.

The Kapruka Agent Challenge runs until the end of June 2026 and is judged by the company's engineering team. The MCP server is free and open to any developer today at mcp.kapruka.com

To show the platform working in the open, and to encourage developers to build on it, Kapruka launched the Kapruka Agent Challenge. The MCP also extends the company's asset-light strategy on the demand side.

"We have spent two years rebuilding the business, and this is about getting ready for what comes next," said Dulith Herath, Chairman and CEO of Kapruka Holdings PLC.

We have made Kapruka one of the first stores in this part of the world that those assistants can actually buy from. Rather than keep it in-house, we opened it up and asked Sri Lanka's developers to show us what they can build with it."

The Kapruka Agent Challenge runs until the end of June 2026 and is judged by the company's engineering team. The MCP server is free and open to any developer today at mcp.kapruka.com.