FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server for OpenAI Agents SDK 19 tools — connect in under 2 minutes
The OpenAI Agents SDK enables production-grade agent workflows in Python. Connect FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence through the Vinkius and your agents gain typed, auto-discovered tools with built-in guardrails — no manual schema definitions required.
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Vinkius supports streamable HTTP and SSE.
import asyncio
from agents import Agent, Runner
from agents.mcp import MCPServerStreamableHttp
async def main():
# Your Vinkius token — get it at cloud.vinkius.com
async with MCPServerStreamableHttp(
url="https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
) as mcp_server:
agent = Agent(
name="FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence Assistant",
instructions=(
"You help users interact with FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence. "
"You have access to 19 tools."
),
mcp_servers=[mcp_server],
)
result = await Runner.run(
agent, "List all available tools from FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence"
)
print(result.final_output)
asyncio.run(main())
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About FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server
The definitive Mega-Server for U.S. economic intelligence. Why install 5 servers when one does it all?
The OpenAI Agents SDK auto-discovers all 19 tools from FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence through native MCP integration. Build agents with built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns — chain multiple agents where one queries FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence, another analyzes results, and a third generates reports, all orchestrated through the Vinkius.
What you can do
- 📊 Series (5 tools) — Search, retrieve data, metadata, updates, and vintage revisions for 816,000+ time series
- 📰 Releases (4 tools) — Track economic data releases, dates, and discover series within each release
- 📁 Categories (4 tools) — Navigate the FRED taxonomy tree to discover and filter data
- 🗺 GeoFRED (3 tools) — Regional economic data by state, county, MSA, and Fed district
- 🏷 Tags & Sources (3 tools) — Intelligent tag-based discovery + all 107 official data providers
Popular Series
GDP · UNRATE · CPIAUCSL · FEDFUNDS · DGS10 · SP500 · M2SL · MORTGAGE30US
The FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server exposes 19 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to OpenAI Agents SDK in under two minutes — no API keys to rotate, no infrastructure to provision, no vendor lock-in. Your configuration, your data, your control.
How to Connect FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP
Follow these steps to integrate the FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK.
Install the SDK
Run pip install openai-agents in your Python environment
Replace the token
Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your Vinkius token from cloud.vinkius.com
Run the script
Save the code above and run it: python agent.py
Explore tools
The agent will automatically discover 19 tools from FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence
Why Use OpenAI Agents SDK with the FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server
OpenAI Agents SDK provides unique advantages when paired with FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence through the Model Context Protocol.
Native MCP integration via `MCPServerSse` — pass the URL and the SDK auto-discovers all tools with full type safety
Built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns let you build production-grade agents without reinventing safety infrastructure
Lightweight and composable: chain multiple agents and MCP servers in a single pipeline with minimal boilerplate
First-party OpenAI support ensures optimal compatibility with GPT models for tool calling and structured output
FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence + OpenAI Agents SDK Use Cases
Practical scenarios where OpenAI Agents SDK combined with the FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server delivers measurable value.
Automated workflows: build agents that query FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence, process the data, and trigger follow-up actions autonomously
Multi-agent orchestration: create specialist agents — one queries FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence, another analyzes results, a third generates reports
Data enrichment pipelines: stream data through FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence tools and transform it with OpenAI models in a single async loop
Customer support bots: agents query FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence to resolve tickets, look up records, and update statuses without human intervention
FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Tools for OpenAI Agents SDK (19)
These 19 tools become available when you connect FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP:
get_category
Key: 32991 (Money/Banking), 10 (Employment), 32992 (National Accounts), 32455 (Prices). Get a FRED category by ID
get_category_children
Start from root (0) to explore top-level categories. Get child categories of a category
get_category_series
Supports filtering by frequency, units, and tags. Get series within a category
get_category_tags
Get tags for a category
get_geo_shapes
Shapes: bea, msa, frb, necta, state, country, county, censusregion. Get geographic shape files for mapping
get_observations
Supports date filtering, unit transformations (pch, log), and frequency aggregation. Get actual data values for a FRED time series
get_regional_data
Use get_series_group first to find the series_group ID. Get cross-sectional regional economic data
get_release
IDs: 10 (Employment), 53 (GDP), 46 (CPI). Get details for a specific release
get_release_dates
Omit release_id for full economic calendar. Get release dates for economic data
get_release_series
Release 10 contains UNRATE, PAYEMS, and hundreds more. Get all series within a release
get_series
Use IDs like GDP, UNRATE, CPIAUCSL, FEDFUNDS, DGS10. Get metadata for a specific FRED series
get_series_by_tags
Example: usa;gdp returns US GDP series. Get series matching specific tags
get_series_group
Enter a FRED series ID to discover the group ID. Get series group info for GeoFRED
get_series_updates
Filter by macro or regional. Get recently updated FRED series
get_vintage_dates
Essential for ALFRED-style vintage analysis. Get historical revision dates for a series
list_releases
List all FRED economic data releases
list_sources
List all FRED data sources
search_series
Returns matching series with title, frequency, units, popularity. Use order_by=popularity to find the most-used series. Search 816,000+ economic time series by keyword
search_tags
Search or browse FRED tags
Example Prompts for FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence in OpenAI Agents SDK
Ready-to-use prompts you can give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent to start working with FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence immediately.
"Complete macro briefing: GDP, unemployment, inflation, and Fed rate"
"Which state has the lowest unemployment and what are the upcoming economic releases?"
"Find all quarterly seasonally-adjusted series related to housing"
Troubleshooting FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK
Common issues when connecting FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence to OpenAI Agents SDK through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.
MCPServerStreamableHttp not found
pip install --upgrade openai-agentsAgent not calling tools
FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence + OpenAI Agents SDK FAQ
Common questions about integrating FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK.
How does the OpenAI Agents SDK connect to MCP?
MCPServerSse(url=...) to create a server connection. The SDK auto-discovers all tools and makes them available to your agent with full type information.Can I use multiple MCP servers in one agent?
MCPServerSse instances to the agent constructor. The agent can use tools from all connected servers within a single run.Does the SDK support streaming responses?
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Connect FRED Full Access — U.S. Economic Intelligence to OpenAI Agents SDK
Get your token, paste the configuration, and start using 19 tools in under 2 minutes. No API key management needed.