InsightIQ MCP
A local MCP server that enables AI agents to search the FRED series catalog and fetch historical economic data observations. It returns raw retrieved data only, allowing the agent to perform analysis and answer economic questions without generating explanations itself.
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- Popularity 1 GitHub star
What you can do with it
- Search FRED's live series catalog for economic indicators
- Fetch historical annual observations for specific series IDs
- Retrieve metadata and units for economic data series
- List available FRED tags for topic-based discovery
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Packages and installation
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insightiq-mcp 1.0.2
{
"version": "1.0.2",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "insightiq-mcp",
"registryType": "npm",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "FRED_API_KEY",
"format": "string",
"isRequired": true,
"description": "Your FRED API key. Get a free one at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/api_key.html"
}
]
}Tools
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- · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
- · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown
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{
"mcpServers": {
"insightiq-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"insightiq-mcp@1.0.2"
],
"env": {
"FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"insightiq-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"insightiq-mcp@1.0.2"
],
"env": {
"FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"insightiq-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"insightiq-mcp@1.0.2"
],
"env": {
"FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"insightiq-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"insightiq-mcp@1.0.2"
],
"env": {
"FRED_API_KEY": "<YOUR_FRED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
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