The agent obtains the latest central bank policy rates for Asian countries, including the exact value, effective date, and a verifiable citation to the official gazette or central bank document, ensuring data integrity for financial analysis.
The agent queries the asiaref MCP server to fetch current policy rates for specific Asian countries. It checks the response for the 'value', 'effective_from' date, and the 'source' object containing the official document name and URL. The agent verifies the 'stale' flag to ensure the data is current and notes the 'last_confirmed' date for audit purposes. Before acting, the agent should confirm the specific country and series (e.g., 'policy-rate') are supported and that the user has the necessary credits or API key for paid endpoints if not using the free Japan trial.
- Category: Research and knowledge
- Effect: Read-only
- MCP servers: asiaref MCP (https://koskamo.com/explore/asiaref-mcp)
- Source: asiaref — Asian government reference data for the agent economy (https://asiaref.dev/)
- Source quote: "Central-bank policy rates, VAT, minimum wages and public holidays for 28 Asian countries — clean JSON, every value cited to its official gazette or central-bank source."
- Playbook page: https://koskamo.com/explore/use-cases/retrieve-asian-government-policy-rates-and-citations
Prompt: Fetch the current central bank policy rate for Japan and Singapore from asiaref. Return the value, unit, effective date, and the full source citation including the document URL.