Federal Reserve Economic Data Server

Search across the FRED MCP Server Documentation knowledge base to find relevant information, code examples, API references, and guides. Use this tool when you need to answer questions about FRED MCP Server Documentation, find specific documentation, understand how features work, or locate implementation details. The search returns contextual content with titles and direct links to the documentation pages. If you need the full content of a specific page, use the query_docs_filesystem tool to `head` or `cat` the page path (append `.mdx` to the path returned from search — e.g. `head -200 /api-reference/create-customer.mdx`).

Run a read-only shell-like query against a virtualized, in-memory filesystem rooted at `/` that contains ONLY the FRED MCP Server Documentation documentation pages and OpenAPI specs. This is NOT a shell on any real machine — nothing runs on the user's computer, the server host, or any network. The filesystem is a sandbox backed by documentation chunks. This is how you read documentation pages: there is no separate "get page" tool. To read a page, pass its `.mdx` path (e.g. `/quickstart.mdx`, `/api-reference/create-customer.mdx`) to `head` or `cat`. To search the docs with exact keyword or regex matches, use `rg`. To understand the docs structure, use `tree` or `ls`. **Workflow:** Start with the search tool for broad or conceptual queries like "how to authenticate" or "rate limiting". Use this tool when you need exact keyword/regex matching, structural exploration, or to read the full content of a specific page by path. Supported commands: rg (ripgrep), grep, find, tree, ls, cat, head, tail, stat, wc, sort, uniq, cut, sed, awk, jq, plus basic text utilities. No writes, no network, no process control. Run `--help` on any command for usage. Each call is STATELESS: the working directory always resets to `/` and no shell variables, aliases, or history carry over between calls. If you need to operate in a subdirectory, chain commands in one call with `&&` or pass absolute paths (e.g., `cd /api-reference && ls` or `ls /api-reference`). Do NOT assume that `cd` in one call affects the next call. Examples: - `tree / -L 2` — see the top-level directory layout - `rg -il "rate limit" /` — find all files mentioning "rate limit" - `rg -C 3 "apiKey" /api-reference/` — show matches with 3 lines of context around each hit - `head -80 /quickstart.mdx` — read the top 80 lines of a specific page - `head -80 /quickstart.mdx /installation.mdx /guides/first-deploy.mdx` — read multiple pages in one call - `cat /api-reference/create-customer.mdx` — read a full page when you need everything - `cat /openapi/spec.json | jq '.paths | keys'` — list OpenAPI endpoints Output is truncated to 30KB per call. Prefer targeted `rg -C` or `head -N` over broad `cat` on large files. To read only the relevant sections of a large file, use `rg -C 3 "pattern" /path/file.mdx`. Batch multiple file reads into a single `head` or `cat` call whenever possible. When referencing pages in your response to the user, convert filesystem paths to URL paths by removing the `.mdx` extension. For example, `/quickstart.mdx` becomes `/quickstart` and `/api-reference/overview.mdx` becomes `/api-reference/overview`.