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fred-mcp-server MCP Server

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) MCP Server - Access all 800,000+ economic time series

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Status

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Connect

Published as fred-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

npx execution never starts the server — import.meta.url main-guard fails through the .bin shim (silent exit 0)

Symptom

Running the server the way the README / typical MCP client configs do:

npx -y fred-mcp-server

prints nothing and exits immediately with code 0. MCP clients (Claude Code / Claude Desktop) report Failed to connect. No error is shown anywhere, which makes this very hard to diagnose.

Cause

At the bottom of build/index.js:

if (import.meta.url === `file://${process.argv[1]}` && !TESTING_DISABLED_AUTO_START) {
    main().catch(...)
}

When the package is la

Read the thread · 2026-07-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment

server disconnected

2026-01-12T05:37:09.150Z [FRED MCP Server] [info] Server started and connected successfully { metadata: undefined } Failed to spawn process: No such file or directory 2026-01-12T05:37:09.152Z [FRED MCP Server] [info] Server transport closed { metadata: undefined } 2026-01-12T05:37:09.152Z [FRED MCP Server] [info] Client transport closed { metadata: undefined } 2026-01-12T05:37:09.152Z [FRED MCP Server] [info] Server transport closed unexpectedly, this is likely due to the process exiting early.

Read the thread · 2026-01-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Serve mcp over streamable http transport

It's preferred nowadays to serve mcp over streamable http transport instead of stdio. It looks like that would be possible to change in main. That would make possible deploying and using an mcp server over the network.

Read the thread · 2025-11-01 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Docker instructions

Similarly to the edgar issue (https://github.com/stefanoamorelli/sec-edgar-mcp/issues/31)

docker pull stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server:latest

I found that the following was necessary to keep the server active: 

"fred-mcp": {
            "command": "docker",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "-i",
                "--rm",
                "-e",
                "FRED_API_KEY=<your-key-here>",
                "stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server:latest"
            ],
 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server/issues/10) · 2025-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Is it possible to deploy as a hosted mcp server?

As the title says basically:

Do you have any guide on deploying this as a remote mcp server? Im exploring FRED mcp servers to deploy as remote so I can use them via OpenAI SDK: https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-js/guides/mcp/

Im not planning on using this with the claude client locally, that is why im asking!

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server/issues/7) · 2025-07-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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