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FRED Series MCP. Analyze official U.S. economic trends instantly.

FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series accesses over 816,000 official economic indicators from the Federal Reserve. You can pull raw data points for anything from GDP and inflation to interest rates and unemployment figures. It handles complex requests like year-over-year percentage changes or aggregating daily readings into quarterly summaries automatically.

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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Find any U.S. economic indicator

Your agent searches a massive database by keyword to locate indicators like unemployment rates or housing starts.

Pull raw date/value pairs

It retrieves actual data points for specific series, supporting complex filters and time ranges.

Transform and aggregate metrics

The MCP automatically calculates units like percent change or aggregates daily data into monthly or annual totals.

Analyze historical revisions

You can access vintage analysis to understand how official data has been revised by the Federal Reserve over decades.

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What AI agents can do with FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series (5 Tools)

These tools allow your agent to search, retrieve metadata, pull raw observations, check for updates, and analyze historical revisions across 816,000+ economic data points.

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Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.

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Search Series

Searches through all 816,000+ economic indicators by keyword to find the correct series ID or metadata.

Get Series

Retrieves core details, including units and frequency, for a specific known FRED...

Get Observations

Pulls the actual data values for a time series, allowing you to filter by date range...

Get Series Updates

Checks which economic indicators were recently updated, helping track the release of...

Get Vintage Dates

Provides historical revision dates for a series, crucial for understanding how past...

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FRED Series MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

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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:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

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 Series integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

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Dealing with disparate economic sources is a headache.

Today, pulling an analysis together means jumping between dozens of websites. You pull the inflation rate from one page, then copy-paste unemployment data into a spreadsheet, and finally cross-reference interest rates using another database. Every step involves manual clicking, checking version numbers, and spending hours just cleaning up mismatched formats.

With this MCP, you ask your agent to 'Compare U.S. GDP growth over the last decade.' It handles the searching, pulling the raw data from multiple sources, applying the necessary percentage change calculations, and structuring it all into a single, clean output for you.

Get instant historical context with `get_vintage_dates`.

Manual research often fails to account for data revisions. You might pull the CPI number from 1985, but without knowing if that figure was revised later by the Fed, your entire analysis is flawed. Tracking these adjustments requires diving deep into technical documentation.

Using `get_vintage_dates` immediately surfaces the revision timeline. It lets you know how much the official numbers shifted over time, giving you confidence in historical comparisons.

What FRED Series MCP does for your AI

This MCP connects your AI agent directly to the full FRED database, giving you access to America's most comprehensive economic data engine. You don't have to manually sift through spreadsheets looking for CPI numbers or federal funds rates; you just ask for what you need. Your client handles searching across hundreds of thousands of indicators by keyword.

Need historical context? It pulls in ALFRED-style revisions so you can see how the data was adjusted over time. Furthermore, it doesn't just give you a raw number; it performs built-in transformations, like calculating year-over-year percentage changes or aggregating daily metrics up to quarterly totals, all with one prompt. Connecting this MCP via Vinkius gives your agent access to the entire catalog of tools needed for deep financial and economic analysis, making complex research instantaneous.

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Frequently asked questions about FRED Series MCP

How do I use FRED Series MCP to find a series ID? +

Use search_series. You just need to type keywords like 'inflation' or 'unemployment rate', and the tool returns matching indicators with their full metadata.

Can I calculate annual percentage change using get_observations? +

Yes. When calling get_observations, you specify units=pch (percent change) in your request. The MCP performs that calculation for you on the raw data points.

Is FRED Series MCP suitable for modeling future rates? +

No, this MCP only retrieves historical and current official data from the Federal Reserve. It is a data source, not a predictive model; it provides facts, not forecasts.

What if I need to compare multiple indicators like CPI and GDP? +

You can retrieve multiple series in one go using get_observations. Just provide the list of desired indicator IDs, and your agent will pull all the corresponding data points for comparison.

How do I check if FRED Series MCP has new data releases? +

Run the get_series_updates tool. This checks which major economic indicators were recently updated, which is key for tracking breaking macro news.