Federal Reserve Mcp Server

Overview

Federal Reserve Mcp Server is a Model Context Protocol server that lets you search and fetch approximately 800K Federal Reserve economic time-series from the FRED API. Any MCP-compatible AI assistant can call its tools directly, letting the model decide when to use them during conversations or agent runs.

The server runs locally via the npm package @cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server, communicating over stdio on your machine. Installation uses npx -y @cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server and requires a FRED_API_KEY set as an environment variable for authentication. The latest release is v0.2.3, with source code available at cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server on GitHub.

Listed under Finance on mcp.site, Federal Reserve Mcp Server works with MCP clients including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Zed. If you maintain this server for cyanheads, claim this listing to verify ownership and keep information current.

Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal_reserve_mcp_server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<fred-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requires FRED_API_KEY