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Use FRED with your AI.

Connect your account once and let the AI you already use work with it, without building another integration. Navigate the complete FRED taxonomy: from Money & Banking to Employment to Prices. drill down through categories, discover thousands of series organized by top

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Works with modern AI clients that support MCP, including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and more.

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Complete set · 4 capabilities

The complete FRED capability set.

These are the exact actions your AI can choose when you ask it to work with FRED.

Capability set01 / 01

01-04

4 capabilities in this set.

Part of 4 available through FRED.

  1. 01

    Get category

    Root 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

  2. 02

    Get category children

    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

  3. 03

    Get category tags

    Useful for understanding what data dimensions are available and for filtering series. Get tags for a FRED category

  4. 04

    Get category series

    Use with category IDs discovered via get_category_children. Supports filtering by frequency, units, and tags. Get series within a FRED category

Observed, not estimated

833ms average. Fast in production.

FRED is checked daily against the live service.

Daily averagePeak 983ms
Aug 20Today
Fastest day
719ms
Slowest day
983ms
14-day trend
Slowing+13%

Connect your client

One URL. Every client.

Activate the Connector, copy your link, and paste it into the client you already use. 4 capabilities arrive ready to run.

Preview access · not provider authentication

The vk_preview_* token belongs to Vinkius preview infrastructure. It lets Claude discover and display the capabilities of FRED, so you can see the experience inside your AI.

It does not authenticate your account with FRED. Actions requiring credentials or live account data may not run until you activate the Connector and authorize the service.

FRED Connector

You're all set. Choose your MCP client and follow the setup instructions.

Connector linkhttps://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_7WfCwB6FJpqqvaBfhRIMugTcP0b5LXhSsO5nuLbV/mcp

Claude Desktop

Follow the steps below to connect in seconds.

  1. 1In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors.
  2. 2Click “Add custom connector” and paste the connector link above as the remote MCP server URL.
  3. 3Click Add and start a new chat — FRED capabilities are ready to use.
Configuration · claude_desktop_config.jsonCopy
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-categories-economic-data-taxonomy-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_7WfCwB6FJpqqvaBfhRIMugTcP0b5LXhSsO5nuLbV/mcp"
    }
  }
}
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Cursor
  • VS Code
  • Windsurf
  • Claude Code
  • JetBrains
  • Cline

Step-by-step instructions for each client are in the guide. How to connect

FAQ

Questions FRED owners ask.

  • 01

    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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