What is a FRED release?

A release is a collection of related series published together on a schedule. For example, the 'Employment Situation' release (#10) published monthly by BLS contains unemployment rate, nonfarm payrolls, and 500+ labor market series.

FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server for Google ADK 4 tools — connect in under 2 minutes

Name: FRED Releases — Economic Calendar
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Author: Vinkius

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Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) is Google's framework for building production AI agents. Add FRED Releases — Economic Calendar as an MCP tool provider through Vinkius and your ADK agents can call every tool with full schema introspection.

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python

from google.adk.agents import Agent
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool import McpToolset
from google.adk.tools.mcp_tool.mcp_session_manager import (
    StreamableHTTPConnectionParams,
)

# Your Vinkius token. get it at cloud.vinkius.com
mcp_tools = McpToolset(
    connection_params=StreamableHTTPConnectionParams(
        url="https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp",
    )
)

agent = Agent(
    model="gemini-2.5-pro",
    name="fred_releases_economic_calendar_agent",
    instruction=(
        "You help users interact with FRED Releases — Economic Calendar "
        "using 4 available tools."
    ),
    tools=[mcp_tools],
)

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About FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server

Never miss an economic data release again. FRED Releases gives your AI agent real-time awareness of the U.S. economic calendar.

Google ADK natively supports FRED Releases — Economic Calendar as an MCP tool provider. declare Vinkius Edge URL and the framework handles discovery, validation, and execution automatically. Combine 4 tools with Gemini's long-context reasoning for complex multi-tool workflows, with production-ready session management and evaluation built in.

What you can do

Browse All Releases — Employment Situation (BLS), GDP (BEA), CPI, PPI, FOMC, and 300+ official releases
Release Dates — Upcoming and historical release dates — build your own economic calendar
Series Discovery — Find all series within a release (e.g., release 10 has UNRATE, PAYEMS, and 500+ series)

Key Release IDs

10 Employment Situation · 53 GDP · 46 CPI · 21 Federal Funds Rate · 189 Housing Starts

The FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server exposes 4 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to Google ADK 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 Releases — Economic Calendar to Google ADK via MCP

Follow these steps to integrate the FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server with Google ADK.

Install Google ADK

Run pip install google-adk

Replace the token

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your Vinkius token

Create the agent

Save the code above and integrate into your ADK workflow

Explore tools

The agent will discover 4 tools from FRED Releases — Economic Calendar via MCP

Why Use Google ADK with the FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server

Google ADK provides unique advantages when paired with FRED Releases — Economic Calendar through the Model Context Protocol.

Google ADK natively supports MCP tool servers. declare a tool provider and the framework handles discovery, validation, and execution

Built on Gemini models, ADK provides long-context reasoning ideal for complex multi-tool workflows with FRED Releases — Economic Calendar

Production-ready features like session management, evaluation, and deployment come built-in. not bolted on

Seamless integration with Google Cloud services means you can combine FRED Releases — Economic Calendar tools with BigQuery, Vertex AI, and Cloud Functions

FRED Releases — Economic Calendar + Google ADK Use Cases

Practical scenarios where Google ADK combined with the FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Enterprise data agents: ADK agents query FRED Releases — Economic Calendar and cross-reference results with internal databases for comprehensive analysis

Multi-modal workflows: combine FRED Releases — Economic Calendar tool responses with Gemini's vision and language capabilities in a single agent

Automated compliance checks: schedule ADK agents to query FRED Releases — Economic Calendar regularly and flag policy violations or configuration drift

Internal tool platforms: build self-service agent platforms where teams connect their own MCP servers including FRED Releases — Economic Calendar

FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Tools for Google ADK (4)

These 4 tools become available when you connect FRED Releases — Economic Calendar to Google ADK via MCP:

get_release

Use release IDs like 10 (Employment Situation), 53 (GDP), 46 (CPI). Get details for a specific FRED release

get_release_dates

Without release_id, returns dates for all releases (great for economic calendar). With release_id, returns dates for a specific release. Get release dates for economic data

get_release_series

For example, release 10 (Employment Situation) contains UNRATE, PAYEMS, and hundreds more. Get all series within a FRED release

list_releases

Each release contains multiple series. List all FRED economic data releases

Example Prompts for FRED Releases — Economic Calendar in Google ADK

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your Google ADK agent to start working with FRED Releases — Economic Calendar immediately.

"When is the next Employment Situation release?"

"What series are included in the GDP release?"

"Show me the upcoming economic calendar for this week"

Troubleshooting FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server with Google ADK

Common issues when connecting FRED Releases — Economic Calendar to Google ADK through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

McpToolset not found

Update: pip install --upgrade google-adk

FRED Releases — Economic Calendar + Google ADK FAQ

Common questions about integrating FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP Server with Google ADK.

How does Google ADK connect to MCP servers?

Import the MCP toolset class and pass the server URL. ADK discovers and registers all tools automatically, making them available to your agent's tool-use loop.

Can ADK agents use multiple MCP servers?

Yes. Declare multiple MCP tool providers in your agent configuration. ADK merges all tool schemas and the agent can call tools from any server in a single turn.

Which Gemini models work best with MCP tools?

Gemini 2.0 Flash and Pro models both support function calling required for MCP tools. Flash is recommended for latency-sensitive use cases, Pro for complex reasoning.