FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP Server
Navigate the complete FRED taxonomy: from Money & Banking to Employment to Prices — drill down through categories, discover thousands of series organized by topic, and filter by tags and frequency.
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What is the FRED MCP Server?
The FRED MCP Server gives AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to FRED via 4 tools. Navigate the complete FRED taxonomy: from Money & Banking to Employment to Prices — drill down through categories, discover thousands of series organized by topic, and filter by tags and frequency. Powered by the Vinkius - no API keys, no infrastructure, connect in under 2 minutes.
Built-in capabilities (4)
Tools for your AI Agents to operate FRED
Ask your AI agent "What are the main categories of economic data in FRED?" and get the answer without opening a single dashboard. With 4 tools connected to real FRED data, your agents reason over live information, cross-reference it with other MCP servers, and deliver insights you would spend hours assembling manually.
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FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP Server capabilities
4 toolsRoot category is 0. Major categories: 32991 (Money, Banking, & Finance), 10 (Population, Employment, & Labor Markets), 32992 (National Accounts), 1 (Production & Business Activity), 32455 (Prices). Get a FRED category by ID
Start from root (0) to explore all top-level categories, then drill down. This is the primary way to discover what data FRED has. Get child categories of a FRED category
Use with category IDs discovered via get_category_children. Supports filtering by frequency, units, and tags. Get series within a FRED category
Useful for understanding what data dimensions are available and for filtering series. Get tags for a FRED category
What the FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP Server unlocks
Explore FRED like a library. The Categories server lets your AI agent navigate the entire FRED taxonomy tree — from the root down to individual series.
What you can do
- Browse the Tree — Start from root (category 0) and drill into 8 top-level domains
- Discover Series — Find all series within any category, sorted by popularity
- Tag Filtering — Get tags for any category to understand available dimensions
Top-Level Categories
32991 Money, Banking & Finance · 10 Population & Employment · 32992 National Accounts · 1 Production & Business · 32455 Prices · 32263 International · 33060 Academic Data
Who is this for?
Data explorers, researchers discovering what data FRED has, and AI agents that need structured navigation of economic indicators.Frequently asked questions about the FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP Server
How is FRED organized?
FRED uses a hierarchical tree of categories. The root (ID 0) branches into 8 domains like Money & Banking, Employment, and Prices. Each domain subdivides into hundreds of subcategories, each containing related series. Start from root and drill down to discover data.
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