fred-api

fred-api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wentorai/research-plugins. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,814 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A programming guide for the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API, which provides US and international economic time series such as inflation, employment, trade, and interest rates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect economic data for analysis, forecasting, policy research, or teaching. It also helps search FRED series and check when new releases are available.
Why use it?
It removes the need to download and整理 economic data manually. It helps you find indicators, retrieve historical values, and compare older data versions in code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to collect economic data for analysis, forecasting, policy research, or teaching. It also helps search FRED series and check when new releases are available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wentorai/research-plugins/fred-api
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 wentorai/research-plugins --skill fred-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,814 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 12 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 34
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 45
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 57
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 66
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 82
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 91
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 103
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 112
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 123
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 147
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 165
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 181
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00012 $0.01814
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00181

Measured 6d ago against content hash 295652c5427d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fred-api scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl "https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series?series_id=GDP&api_key=YOUR_KEY&file_type=json"
skills/domains/economics/fred-api/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FRED API Guide

Overview

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is a database maintained by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It contains over 800,000 economic time series from dozens of national and international sources, covering macroeconomic indicators, financial markets, employment, trade, monetary policy, and more.

The FRED API provides programmatic access to this extensive economic data repository. Researchers can retrieve time series observations, search for data series by keyword or category, explore release schedules, and access vintage (real-time) data for historical analysis. The data spans decades and in some cases centuries, making it invaluable for longitudinal economic research.

Economists, financial analysts, policy researchers, data scientists, and academic institutions rely on the FRED API for econometric modeling, macroeconomic forecasting, policy analysis, and teaching. It is one of the most widely used economic data APIs in academic research and is cited in thousands of peer-reviewed publications.

Authentication

Authentication requires a free API key from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

  1. Register for an account at https://fredaccount.stlouisfed.org/login/secure/
  2. Request an API key at https://fredaccount.stlouisfed.org/apikeys
  3. Include the key as the api_key query parameter in all requests
curl "https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series?series_id=GDP&api_key=YOUR_KEY&file_type=json"

API keys are free and available to anyone who registers. There is no fee or approval process.

Core Endpoints

series: Retrieve Series Metadata

Get metadata about a specific economic data series, including title, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment, and date range.

  • URL: GET https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series
  • Parameters:
Parameter Type Required Description
series_id string Yes FRED series identifier (e.g., GDP)
api_key string Yes Your FRED API key
file_type string No Response format: json or xml (default)

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 6d ago First seen · 190 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 295652c5427d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fred-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository wentorai/research-plugins (291 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,814 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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