FRED (economic data) for VS Code

io.github.mcpwright/fred-mcp

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

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install FRED (economic data) in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "fred-api-key",
      "description": "FRED_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "fred-mcp-user-agent",
      "description": "FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "fred-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcpwright-fred"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRED_API_KEY": "${input:fred-api-key}",
        "FRED_MCP_USER_AGENT": "${input:fred-mcp-user-agent}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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