Skill: Macro backdrop snapshot

Bundled execution of the Macro backdrop snapshot workflow — The 'is the economic backdrop you're modeling against still current?' pack. Pull the canonical macro signals — CPI year-over-year, unemployment, fed funds, the Treasury yield curve, a G10 FX dashboard, the Sahm Rule recession indicator, and the next scheduled economic releases — in one composed workflow. Seven egress tools, one composite snapshot the agent can cite before doing any forecast or investment math. One x402 payment runs 8 underlying tools (cpi-yoy, unemployment-rate, fed-funds, treasury-yield-curve, yield-curve-spread, sahm-rule, fx-dashboard, fred-release-calendar); partial-success per step.

Input

Field	Type	Description
asOfDate	string	the as-of date for the snapshot in YYYY-MM-DD (use today if unspecified)

Example output

{
  "pack": "macro-context",
  "args": {
    "asOfDate": "2026-06-22"
  },
  "steps": [
    {
      "slug": "cpi-yoy",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "unemployment-rate",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "fed-funds",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "treasury-yield-curve",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "yield-curve-spread",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "sahm-rule",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "fx-dashboard",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "fred-release-calendar",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    }
  ],
  "summary": "8/8 steps succeeded"
}

Try it — see the 402 challenge (free)

curl -i -X POST https://agent402.tools/api/skill/macro-context \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"asOfDate":"2026-06-22"}'

The response is HTTP 402 Payment Required with exact payment requirements. Any x402 v2 client pays automatically and retries:

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/skill/macro-context", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "asOfDate": "2026-06-22"
  }),
});

Wallet-only. This tool reaches the network/browser/storage, so it is paid in USDC via x402 (no proof-of-work tier).

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