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FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Server for OpenAI Agents SDK 5 tools — connect in under 2 minutes

Name: FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series
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Author: Vinkius

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The OpenAI Agents SDK enables production-grade agent workflows in Python. Connect FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series through the Vinkius and your agents gain typed, auto-discovered tools with built-in guardrails — no manual schema definitions required.

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python

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 Series — U.S. Economic Time Series Assistant",
            instructions=(
                "You help users interact with FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series. "
                "You have access to 5 tools."
            ),
            mcp_servers=[mcp_server],
        )

        result = await Runner.run(
            agent, "List all available tools from FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series"
        )
        print(result.final_output)

asyncio.run(main())

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About FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Server

Connect your AI agent to the most powerful economic data engine in the world. FRED Series gives you direct access to the Federal Reserve's complete time series database.

The OpenAI Agents SDK auto-discovers all 5 tools from FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series through native MCP integration. Build agents with built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns — chain multiple agents where one queries FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series, another analyzes results, and a third generates reports, all orchestrated through the Vinkius.

What you can do

Search 816,000+ Series — Find any economic indicator by keyword. GDP, CPI, unemployment rate, federal funds rate, housing starts, and hundreds of thousands more
Retrieve Observations — Get actual date/value pairs with built-in unit transformations (percent change, log, year-over-year) and frequency aggregation (daily → monthly → quarterly → annual)
Series Metadata — Full details: title, units, frequency, seasonal adjustment, observation range, source, and notes
Recent Updates — Monitor which series were just updated — essential for tracking economic releases
Vintage Analysis — Access ALFRED-style historical revisions to understand how data was revised over time

Popular Series IDs

GDP · UNRATE · CPIAUCSL · FEDFUNDS · DGS10 · SP500 · M2SL · MORTGAGE30US · DEXUSEU · T10YIE

The FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Server exposes 5 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 Series — U.S. Economic Time Series to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP

Follow these steps to integrate the FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series 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 5 tools from FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series

Why Use OpenAI Agents SDK with the FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Server

OpenAI Agents SDK provides unique advantages when paired with FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series 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 Series — U.S. Economic Time Series + OpenAI Agents SDK Use Cases

Practical scenarios where OpenAI Agents SDK combined with the FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Automated workflows: build agents that query FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series, process the data, and trigger follow-up actions autonomously

Multi-agent orchestration: create specialist agents — one queries FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series, another analyzes results, a third generates reports

Data enrichment pipelines: stream data through FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series tools and transform it with OpenAI models in a single async loop

Customer support bots: agents query FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series to resolve tickets, look up records, and update statuses without human intervention

FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Tools for OpenAI Agents SDK (5)

These 5 tools become available when you connect FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP:

get_observations

Supports date filtering, unit transformations (percent change, log, etc.), and frequency aggregation. This is the primary tool for retrieving economic data. Get actual data values for a FRED time series

get_series

Use well-known IDs like GDP, UNRATE, CPIAUCSL, FEDFUNDS, DGS10, SP500, M2SL. Get metadata for a specific FRED series

get_series_updates

Useful for monitoring new data releases. Filter by macro (large/popular series) or regional. Get recently updated FRED series

get_vintage_dates

Essential for ALFRED-style vintage analysis and understanding data revisions. Get historical revision dates for a series

search_series

Returns matching series with title, frequency, units, popularity. Use order_by=popularity to find the most-used series. Examples: "GDP", "unemployment rate", "inflation CPI". Search 816,000+ economic time series by keyword

Example Prompts for FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series in OpenAI Agents SDK

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent to start working with FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series immediately.

"What is the current U.S. unemployment rate?"

"Show me U.S. GDP growth rate over the last 5 years"

"Compare the federal funds rate with 10-year Treasury yield"

Troubleshooting FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK

Common issues when connecting FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series to OpenAI Agents SDK through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

MCPServerStreamableHttp not found

Ensure you have the latest version: pip install --upgrade openai-agents

Agent not calling tools

Make sure your prompt explicitly references the task the tools can help with.

FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series + OpenAI Agents SDK FAQ

Common questions about integrating FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK.

How does the OpenAI Agents SDK connect to MCP?

Use MCPServerSse(url=...) to create a server connection. The SDK auto-discovers all tools and makes them available to your agent with full type information.