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FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP. Track U.S. Macro Data Schedules Instantly

FRED Releases — Economic Calendar tracks every major U.S. economic data release, from Employment Situation and GDP to CPI, plus hundreds of underlying series. You get real-time visibility into upcoming and historical dates for critical financial metrics, letting your agent build a comprehensive, custom economic calendar on demand.

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List all available releases

You can retrieve the titles of every major U.S. economic report published by FRED.

Get details for a specific release

Specify an official ID, and you get comprehensive information about that exact data category (e.g., what GDP means).

Build a custom economic calendar

Request upcoming or historical dates for any major report, letting you build your own personalized financial schedule.

Discover all underlying data series

For a given release, you can list every single individual metric—sometimes hundreds of them—that was reported that month.

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FRED Releases — Economic Calendar

What AI agents can do with FRED Releases — Economic Calendar: 4 Tools

These tools let you list reports, get details on specific releases, check calendar dates, and discover every single underlying metric within FRED's massive database.

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List Releases

This tool lists all major economic data reports available through FRED.

Get Release

You can get full details about a specific, identified FRED release using its ID...

Get Release Dates

This tool retrieves the schedule of dates—past or future—for an entire data report.

Get Release Series

Use this to find and list every single individual metric contained within a specific...

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FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP is compatible with Claude

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Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

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Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

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Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

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Open a new chat. The FRED Releases — Economic Calendar integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

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Keeping Track of Economic Releases is a Manual Headache

Today, compiling an accurate economic calendar means jumping through hoops. You check the BLS site for job numbers, then switch to BEA for GDP, and finally hop over to FOMC pages just for interest rates. It's copy-paste hell, requiring you to manually track IDs, dates, and whether a metric is even available this quarter.

With this MCP, all that cross-site clicking vanishes. Your agent handles the coordination. You ask for the upcoming calendar, and it pulls the required schedules from multiple sources into one clean output. You get instant clarity, not browser fatigue.

Discovering Every Metric with `get_release_series`

The hardest part of deep financial research is knowing which specific data point you need—is it the annual rate, or the quarterly percentage change? Manually digging into a report often means clicking through dozens of sub-pages to find that single series ID.

Now, with `get_release_series`, you ask for all metrics within a release, and the agent gives you every available data point in one go. You get the full scope of what was reported, making your analysis comprehensive from minute one.

What FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP does for your AI

Need to know when the next big economic number drops? This MCP gives your AI client direct access to the U.S. economic landscape published by the St. Louis Fed. Forget jumping between multiple government websites just to compile a schedule; this tool lets you ask for specific releases—like GDP or the Federal Funds Rate—and get details, past dates, and future schedules immediately.

You can also drill down deep into any release to discover every individual data series it contains, finding metrics like unemployment rates or housing starts without guesswork. It's pure macro data visibility. By connecting this MCP through Vinkius, your agent becomes an instant economic research assistant, letting you build a custom calendar and pull complex time-series data using simple conversation.

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Frequently asked questions about FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP

How do I find out which reports are available using FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP? +

You use list_releases. This tool gives you a complete list of every major economic category, allowing you to see the full scope of data coverage at once.

Can I build a calendar for multiple reports using FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP? +

Yes, by chaining get_release_dates. You simply ask the agent for dates across several report IDs in one prompt to compile your full weekly schedule.

What is the difference between getting a release and getting its series using FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP? +

Using get_release provides metadata about the entire report (the 'folder'). Using get_release_series lists the specific data files (the 'documents') inside that folder.

How do I get historical economic dates with FRED Releases — Economic Calendar MCP? +

You use get_release_dates and specify a date range or use the tool without an ID to see past schedules for all available releases.