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FRED (economic data) for Claude Desktop

io.github.mcpwright/fred-mcp

FRED economic time series + ALFRED vintages: data as originally published, before revisions.

client:Claude Desktop transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install FRED (economic data) in Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json · windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-fred"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "<FRED_API_KEY>",
        "FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT": "<FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config opens this file. Restart the app after saving. Claude Desktop docs

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