How to Use the FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP in Mastra AI
Build resilient, self-healing economic data pipelines using Mastra AI and the FRED taxonomy.
Works with every AI agent you already use
…and any MCP-compatible client
Connect FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP to Mastra AI
Create your Vinkius account to connect FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy to Mastra AI and route execution through our secure gateway. The platform manages server hosting, runtime updates, and security layers. Configuration requires no manual server provisioning.
Automate deep taxonomic crawls with Mastra workflows
Crawling the FRED taxonomy manually is a recipe for rate limits and broken runs. Mastra AI lets you build strict workflows that use `get_category_children` to map out branches like Money & Finance, handling API hiccups with automatic exponential backoff. If a deep crawl fails midway, the workflow engine catches the error and retries the specific node. Your pipeline keeps moving, building a reliable local map of FRED categories without manual intervention.
Human-approved economic mapping via Mastra AI
Sometimes you don't want an autonomous agent pulling thousands of series IDs without oversight. Use Mastra AI's tool approval feature to pause the agent when it tries to run `get_category_series` on massive parent nodes. The agent identifies the categories using `get_category` on this MCP Server, prompts a human analyst to approve the extraction, and then executes the run. This keeps your API quotas safe and prevents junk data from flooding your database.
Conditional routing based on category tags
Different economic sectors require different downstream processing models. This MCP Server lets you inspect nodes with `get_category_tags` to route data dynamically inside your Mastra agent. If the tag points to high-frequency labor data, route it to your timeseries forecasting agent. If it points to annual national accounts, send it to your macro report generator.
Set up FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy MCP in Mastra AI
Prerequisites
- Node.js 18+ and a TypeScript project
-
@mastra/mcp+@mastra/corepackages - Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token
- 1
Install dependencies
Run
npm install @mastra/mcp @mastra/coreplus your preferred model provider (e.g.@ai-sdk/openai). - 2
Configure the MCPClient
Create an
MCPClientwith your Vinkius endpoint as aURLobject. Replace[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. - 3
Discover and inject tools
Call
mcpClient.listTools()and spread the result into your agent'stoolsobject. All FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy tools become native Mastra tools. - 4
Run with any model
Swap
openai("gpt-4o")for any AI SDK-compatible provider. Callagent.generate()and the agent routes tool calls through MCP automatically.
import { MCPClient } from "@mastra/mcp";
import { Agent } from "@mastra/core/agent";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
const mcpClient = new MCPClient({
id: "fred-categories-economic-data-taxonomy-mcp-client",
servers: {
"fred-categories-economic-data-taxonomy-mcp": {
url: new URL(
"https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
),
},
},
});
const agent = new Agent({
name: "FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy Agent",
model: openai("gpt-4o"),
instructions: "You have access to FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy tools.",
tools: {
...(await mcpClient.listTools()),
},
});
const result = await agent.generate(
"List recent FRED Categories — Economic Data Taxonomy transactions"
);
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