fred-mcp

Item: fred-mcp
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

Enables querying and retrieving Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) including series, categories, releases, sources, and tags, with support for stdio and HTTP transports and bring-your-own-key authentication.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: FRED_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configMCP_SERVER_PORT— 8000 Bind port for HTTP transports

configMCP_SERVER_TRANSPORT— "-e", "=stdio",

🔐 secretFRED_API_KEY— "": "<your fred api key>"

configMCP_SERVER_HOST— localhost Bind host for HTTP transports

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commit: 463ca2fe129c0487b9c9a17912468bbf86f7a05b

code hash: 4f640688feed36f5721d6e8b4f6f2f72f5b5ab263e6bb201f1ac96518b837c8e

verified: 7/31/2026, 9:22:26 AM

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