Federal Reserve MCP Server runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 172 installs a week from npm. Last commit 18 Oct 2026.
Search and fetch ~800K Federal Reserve economic time-series from the FRED API via MCP.
What the code does
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What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.
…e with ${JSON.stringify({ name: registered.tableName })}, then fedreserve_dataframe_query with ${JSON.stringify({ sql: `SELECT * FROM ${registered.tableName}` })}.`,
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Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add federal-reserve-mcp-server -e 'FRED_API_KEY=<FRED_API_KEY>' -- npx -y @cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server{
"mcpServers": {
"federal-reserve-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"FRED_API_KEY": "<FRED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.federal-reserve-mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server"]
env = { FRED_API_KEY = "<FRED_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"federal-reserve-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"FRED_API_KEY": "<FRED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"federal-reserve-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cyanheads/federal-reserve-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"FRED_API_KEY": "<FRED_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<FRED_API_KEY> (FRED API key from stlouisfed.org. Required to make any API calls).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE (Selects the HTTP transport), FRED_BASE_URL (Override the FRED API base URL), FRED_DATASET_TTL_SECONDS (Sliding TTL for DataCanvas-registered observation tables (seconds)), FRED_DATAFRAME_DROP_ENABLED (Set to 'true' to enable fedreserve_dataframe_drop; otherwise it remains registered as disabled), MCP_HTTP_HOST (The hostname for the HTTP server), MCP_HTTP_PORT (The port to run the HTTP server on), MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH (The endpoint path for the MCP server), MCP_AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warn')).
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