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

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Tools

fred_get_series

Get observations (data points) for a FRED series. Key housing series: MORTGAGE30US (30-year mortgage rate), HOUST (housing starts), CSUSHPISA (Case-Shiller home price index), MSPUS (median home sale p

No parameters required.

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fred_series_info

Get metadata about a FRED series: title, units, frequency, seasonal adjustment, notes, and date range.

No parameters required.

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fred_category

Browse FRED categories. Use category_id=0 for the root. Useful for exploring available data by topic (housing = 97, money/banking/finance = 32991, population/employment/labor = 10).

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fred_releases

Get the latest FRED data releases. Shows upcoming and recent releases of economic data.

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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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