Federal Reserve MCP

An MCP server that provides tools to search, fetch, and analyze approximately 800,000 Federal Reserve economic time-series from the FRED API. It supports full-text search, metadata retrieval, observation fetching with filtering, category browsing, and SQL queries over DataCanvas dataframes using DuckDB.

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by cyanheads

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What you can do with it

Search for economic time-series by title or tags
Fetch metadata and observations for specific series
Browse FRED categories and releases
Run SQL queries against cached economic dataframes

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.3.0

mcp-registry: io.github.cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server@0.3.0 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Oct 31, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

Packages and installation

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@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server 0.3.0

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@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server package definition

{
  "version": "0.3.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server",
  "runtimeHint": "npx",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://registry.npmjs.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "FRED_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "FRED API key from stlouisfed.org. Required to make any API calls."
    },
    {
      "name": "FRED_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred",
      "description": "Override the FRED API base URL."
    },
    {
      "name": "FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "86400",
      "description": "Sliding TTL for DataCanvas-registered observation tables (seconds)."
    },
    {
      "name": "FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "false",
      "description": "Set to 'true' to enable fedreserve_dataframe_drop; otherwise it remains registered as disabled."
    },
    {
      "name": "MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "info",
      "description": "Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal-reserve-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>",
        "FRED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_FRED_BASE_URL>",
        "FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal-reserve-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>",
        "FRED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_FRED_BASE_URL>",
        "FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "federal-reserve-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>",
        "FRED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_FRED_BASE_URL>",
        "FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal-reserve-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server@0.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>",
        "FRED_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_FRED_BASE_URL>",
        "FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS": "<YOUR_FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS>",
        "FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED": "<YOUR_FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED>",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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