fed-watch

fed-watch is a skill for Claude Code from yyordanov-tradu/stock-scanner-mcp. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,163 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for estimating the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate move from inflation, employment, bond-market, and financial-stress data. The Federal Reserve is the United States central bank.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review recent rate history, inflation, unemployment, jobless claims, Treasury yields, and market stress, provided a FRED API key is configured.
Why use it?
It brings several economic signals together instead of relying on one indicator when assessing rate policy.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the stock-scanner plugin — 19 skills, 3 commands, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to review recent rate history, inflation, unemployment, jobless claims, Treasury yields, and market stress, provided a FRED API key is configured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yyordanov-tradu/stock-scanner-mcp/fed-watch
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 yyordanov-tradu/stock-scanner-mcp --skill fed-watch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yyordanov-tradu/stock-scanner-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stock-scanner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 3 commands, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,163 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 $0.00032 $0.01163
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00581
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00116

Measured 12d ago against content hash e4721555a1e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fed-watch 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 12d 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/macro/fed-watch/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fed Watch

Overview

Act as a rates strategist. Collect current and historical inflation data, employment indicators, yield curve levels, and market stress signals to assess the Fed's likely policy direction. Focus on what the data tells us about the next move.

Prerequisite: This skill requires FRED_API_KEY to be configured. Without it, only market indices and sentiment data are available.

Announce at start: "Running Fed Watch -- collecting rate history, inflation trends, employment data, and market stress indicators."

Data Collection

Wave 1 -- ALL calls in parallel

Tool Parameters Priority
fred_indicator series_id=fed_funds REQUIRED
fred_indicator_history series_id=fed_funds, start_date=12 months ago, end_date=today REQUIRED
fred_indicator_history series_id=cpi, start_date=12 months ago, end_date=today, units=pc1 REQUIRED
fred_indicator_history series_id=core_pce, start_date=12 months ago, end_date=today, units=pc1 REQUIRED
fred_indicator series_id=unemployment REQUIRED
fred_indicator series_id=initial_claims ENRICHMENT
fred_indicator series_id=treasury_2y REQUIRED
fred_indicator series_id=treasury_10y REQUIRED
fred_indicator series_id=nonfarm_payrolls (NFP data may be 2-4 weeks old) ENRICHMENT
tradingview_market_indices (default) REQUIRED
fred_economic_calendar limit=10 ENRICHMENT

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 12d ago First seen · 102 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A e4721555a1e8

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fed-watch is a skill published in the GitHub repository yyordanov-tradu/stock-scanner-mcp (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,163 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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