canli-mcp / Fed decisions

How can an AI agent look up Federal Reserve rate decisions?

canli-mcp's fomc tool lists the FOMC meetings for a year with the target range decided at each one and the projections published with them, read from the Federal Reserve.

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What has the Fed decided at its meetings this year?

The agent finds the tool through canli-mcp's find_tool and runs it through run_tool. This is the call:

{
  "name": "fomc",
  "arguments": {
    "year": 2026
  }
}

What came back

Recorded from canli-mcp 0.11.1 on 2026-10-25, with no API key set. The model read 5,401 characters.

What fomc returned, every row; the first columns
startendstatusprojectionsactionchange bptarget lowtarget high
2026-01-272026-01-28heldfalseheld03.53.75
2026-03-172026-03-18heldtrueheld03.53.75
2026-04-282026-04-29heldfalseheld03.53.75
2026-06-162026-06-17heldtrueheld03.53.75
2026-07-282026-07-29heldfalseheld03.53.75
2026-09-152026-09-16heldtrueraised253.754
2026-10-272026-10-28scheduledfalse
2026-12-082026-12-09scheduledtrue
The result fomc sent back, in full form
{
  "ref": "r15",
  "year": 2026,
  "as_of": "2026-10-25",
  "columns": [
    "start",
    "end",
    "status",
    "projections",
    "action",
    "change_bp",
    "…"
  ],
  "rows": [
    [
      "2026-01-27",
      "2026-01-28",
      "held",
      false,
      "held",
      0,
      "…"
    ],
    [
      "2026-03-17",
      "2026-03-18",
      "held",
      true,
      "held",
      0,
      "…"
    ],
    [
      "2026-04-28",
      "2026-04-29",
      "held",
      false,
      "held",
      0,
      "…"
    ],
    [
      "2026-06-16",
      "2026-06-17",
      "held",
      true,
      "held",
      0,
      "…"
    ],
    [
      "2026-07-28",
      "2026-07-29",
      "held",
      false,
      "held",
      0,
      "…"
    ],
    [
      "2026-09-15",
      "2026-09-16",
      "held",
      true,
      "raised",
      25,
      "…"
    ],
    "…"
  ],
  "latest_statement": {
    "meeting": "2026-09-16",
    "decision": "The Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 3-3/4 to 4 percent, in support of the …",
    "text": "September 16, 2026 Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT Share --> --> --> --> --> --> The Federal Open Market …"
  },
  "projections": {
    "meeting": "2026-09-16",
    "units": "percent (Q4 to Q4 change for GDP and inflation; Q4 level for unemployment; year-end level for the federal funds rate)",
    "columns": [
      "variable",
      "2026",
      "2027",
      "2028",
      "2029",
      "longer_run"
    ],
    "median": [
      [
        "Change in real GDP",
        2.3,
        2.4,
        2.2,
        2.1,
        2
      ],
      [
        "Unemployment rate",
        4.1,
        4.1,
        4.1,
        4.1,
        4.2
      ],
      [
        "PCE inflation",
        3.7,
        2.3,
        2.1,
        2,
        2
      ],
      [
        "Core PCE inflation",
        3.4,
        2.5,
        2.2,
        2,
        null
      ],
      [
        "Federal funds rate",
        4.1,
        4.1,
        3.9,
        3.6,
        3.2
      ]
    ],
    "previous_median": [
      [
        "Change in real GDP",
        2.2,
        2.3,
        2.2,
        null,
        2
      ],
      [
        "Unemployment rate",
        4.3,
        4.3,
        4.2,
        null,
        4.2
      ],
      [
        "PCE inflation",
        3.6,
        2.3,
        2,
        null,
        2
      ],
      [
        "Core PCE inflation",
        3.3,
        2.5,
        2.1,
        null,
        null
      ],
      [
        "Federal funds rate",
        3.8,
        3.6,
        3.4,
        null,
        3.1
      ]
    ],
    "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcprojtabl20260916.htm"
  },
  "source": "https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm",
  "limits": [
    "From the Federal Reserve's FOMC calendar, statements and Summary of Economic Projections as published; the target range is in percent, the c…",
    "Projections are FOMC participants' medians, not a Committee forecast, and change at every projection meeting.",
    "Not investment advice."
  ]
}

Prices, filings and statistics are as the sources published them on that day; run the call again for today's. Nothing here is investment advice.

The tools behind the answer

From canli-mcp's tool index
ToolPackWhat it does
fomcmarketsThe Federal Reserve's rate decisions from its own record: each FOMC meeting of a year (held and scheduled), the action, change and target range, the vote with dissenters and their reasons, links to statements and minutes, the latest statement, and the median projections (dot plot) for GDP, unemployment, inflation and the federal funds rate.

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claude mcp add canli -- npx -y canli-mcp
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{ "mcpServers": { "canli": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "canli-mcp"] } } }
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