Fred MCP Server

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Fred MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.

MCP server for FRED economic data: series, observations. Needs a free API key.

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npm · fred-mcp

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0 releases in 90 days

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Fred MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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 Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add fred-mcp -- npx -y fred-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.fred-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "fred-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "fred-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Fred MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Fred MCP?

Fred MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package fred-mcp.

How do I connect Fred MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls fred-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.