Get economic data releases from FRED
AI agents call fred_get_releases to retrieve information from FRED MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool fetches publicly available economic data releases from the Federal Reserve Economic Data service. There are no side effects, no data modification, no code execution, and no financial transactions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—at worst, an agent could retrieve unwanted datasets, but this causes no damage to systems or data.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves 'economic data releases from FRED' with no modification, deletion, or execution capability. The verb 'Get' and the read-only nature of accessing published Federal Reserve data indicate a query/retrieval operation.
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Get economic data releases from FRED. It is categorised as a Read tool in the FRED MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the FRED MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for fred_get_releases: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches FRED MCP Server. Nothing to install.
fred_get_releases is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the fred_get_releases rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for fred_get_releases. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
fred_get_releases is provided by the FRED MCP Server MCP server (milind-kulshrestha/fred_mcp_server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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