Fed economic snapshot

Key Federal Reserve economic indicators - fed funds rate, unemployment, and CPI - in one call.

When to use this pack

An agent providing economic context needs the three most-watched Fed indicators: where rates are (FEDFUNDS), how tight the labor market is (UNRATE), and where inflation stands (CPIAUCSL). Three FRED series calls bundled into one payment.

Tools in this pack

All 3 run inside the single $0.005 call above. Each is also callable on its own if you only need one part.

• FRED time series GET /api/fred-series Fetch any of FRED's ~800,000 economic time series by series ID - GDP (GDPC1), CPI (CPIAUCSL), unemployment (UNRATE), fed funds (DFF), and so on. Supports date windowing and the standard FRED units transformations (lin, chg, ch1, pch, pc1, pca, cca, log). ?seriesId=GDPC1&startDate=2018-01-01&endDate=2023-12-31&units=pc1 This product uses the FRED(R) API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• FRED time series GET /api/fred-series Fetch any of FRED's ~800,000 economic time series by series ID - GDP (GDPC1), CPI (CPIAUCSL), unemployment (UNRATE), fed funds (DFF), and so on. Supports date windowing and the standard FRED units transformations (lin, chg, ch1, pch, pc1, pca, cca, log). ?seriesId=GDPC1&startDate=2018-01-01&endDate=2023-12-31&units=pc1 This product uses the FRED(R) API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• FRED time series GET /api/fred-series Fetch any of FRED's ~800,000 economic time series by series ID - GDP (GDPC1), CPI (CPIAUCSL), unemployment (UNRATE), fed funds (DFF), and so on. Supports date windowing and the standard FRED units transformations (lin, chg, ch1, pch, pc1, pca, cca, log). ?seriesId=GDPC1&startDate=2018-01-01&endDate=2023-12-31&units=pc1 This product uses the FRED(R) API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Bought one at a time, these 1 tools cost $0.005 together; the pack is that sum less a 10% bundle discount, rounded up to the $0.001 settlement floor, which is $0.005.

Workflow

1. Call fred-series with series='FEDFUNDS' to get the effective federal funds rate.
2. Call fred-series with series='UNRATE' to get the unemployment rate.
3. Call fred-series with series='CPIAUCSL' to get the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

What one call returns

A JSON object with pack, args, steps, summary; steps holds one entry per tool (fred-series, fred-series, fred-series), each with its own result or error. Full example on the API page.

Call it directly

Any x402 client pays the 402 and gets the whole workflow back in one response. With the agent402-client SDK (npm i agent402-client, an ES module):

import { Agent402 } from "agent402-client";
// payFetch: an x402-wrapped fetch your wallet signs (@x402/fetch).
// Tools on the free tier need no options: new Agent402() pays them by proof-of-work.
// an existing prepaid credits key also works: new Agent402({ creditsKey })
const client = new Agent402({ fetch: payFetch });
const result = await client.call("skill-fred-snapshot", {});

Run it in Claude

claude mcp add agent402 -s user -- npx -y agent402-mcp@latest

Then paste this prompt into Claude:

Get a Fed economic snapshot using Agent402's fred-snapshot skill pack: (1) FEDFUNDS - current rate, (2) UNRATE - unemployment, (3) CPIAUCSL - CPI. Summarize the macro picture: is the Fed tightening or easing, and what does the jobs/inflation combo suggest?

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