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FRED MCP — Federal Reserve Economic Data (St. Louis Fed)

6 tools
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Tools

fred_get_series

AUTHORITATIVE historical time-series for any economic indicator from FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — the official US macroeconomic data repository, 800k+ series). Pass a series ID like "MORT

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fred_series_info

Get metadata for a series: title, units, frequency, seasonal adjustment, notes, and date range. Check this before fetching historical data.

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fred_category

Browse economic data by category (housing, employment, money/banking, etc.). Returns subcategories and related series IDs.

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fred_releases

Check upcoming and recent economic data releases. Returns release dates, names, and which series they update.

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fred_release_dates

Economic data RELEASE CALENDAR from FRED — the dates indicators are/were published, including FUTURE scheduled dates. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "when is the next CPI / jobs report / GDP release", "ec

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/fred/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/fred/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"fred_get_series","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("fred_get_series", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("fred mcp — federal reserve economic data (st");

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