# fred-mcp-server MCP Server

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

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## 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`:

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

When the package is la

[Read the thread](https://github.com/stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server/issues/33) · 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](https://github.com/stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server/issues/20) · 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](https://github.com/stefanoamorelli/fred-mcp-server/issues/16) · 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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