tako-macroeconomics

tako-macroeconomics is a skill for Claude Code from TakoData/tako-mcp. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for retrieving economic and population statistics through Tako, including inflation, jobs, economic output, interest rates and demographics. It provides charts backed by sources such as government agencies and international organisations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for economic briefings, tracking inflation or unemployment, comparing countries, examining interest rates or GDP, and reviewing population trends.
Why use it?
It avoids manually collecting figures from many economic databases and helps support comparisons with cited data. Country-level queries work best; regional groups may need to be assembled from individual countries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the tako plugin — 3 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it for economic briefings, tracking inflation or unemployment, comparing countries, examining interest rates or GDP, and reviewing population trends.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/takodata/tako-mcp/tako-macroeconomics
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add TakoData/tako-mcp --skill tako-macroeconomics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TakoData/tako-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tako, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,106 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00118 $0.01106
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00111

Measured 8d ago against content hash bd0633655336, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tako-macroeconomics scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/tako-macroeconomics/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Macroeconomics (Tako)

Tako serves macro and demographic indicators as structured, cited data: each result is a card carrying the headline value, the underlying rows, and a chart of the series. All tools below live on the Tako MCP server (server name tako). The tool descriptions and every result already carry the card fields, the sources guidance and the zero-card recovery; this skill covers how to shape a macro query, how to check a card against the question, and how to report.

Workflow

  1. Query as COUNTRY + INDICATOR: "US CPI inflation", "Japan unemployment rate". Coverage is keyed by country. For a bloc or region, check coverage with tako_available_data before searching: member-country series are far denser, so aggregate them yourself or take the figure from the web results and say so.
  2. Name the variant when intent is precise. Most indicators exist in several variants with materially different values: headline vs core, seasonally adjusted or not, BLS vs IMF vs OECD-harmonised, U-3 vs U-6, target rate vs effective rate. When you don't know the exact name, call tako_available_data first, which is free, and search on the name it returns. Level and rate series share a stem: "Core PCE Price Index" is the index level and "Core PCE Price Index (% Change)" is the inflation rate, and a query that says "inflation" can match either, or a CPI series.
  3. Call tako_search with the default sources. Web results carry release commentary and cover the gaps in bloc-level data.
  4. Check the top card against the question with the list below. If a different card is the right one, link its title to its url and say so.
  5. Read the value from description. When the card is exportable and you need more than the headline, tako_contents on its url returns the series.
  6. Zero cards? Follow the recovery the result states, and keep to two priced searches per question. Empty means not covered, not that the indicator doesn't exist.
  7. Discovery asks ("what does Tako track for Japan", "which countries are in the G7", "who publishes Japan's data")? Resolve the country with tako_available_data to get its node id, then call tako_graph_related on it. The first call returns the relation map with counts (metrics, part_of, siblings, sources; members on a bloc node); pass relation to page one and q to filter it, then search on the names it returns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago Changed · -26 lines · +29 tokens per session bd0633655336
  2. 12d ago First seen · 66 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 326b216e91ba

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tako-macroeconomics is a skill published in the GitHub repository TakoData/tako-mcp (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,106 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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