How to Search FRED Economic Data from OpenClaw

OpenClaw gives you a local AI agent you can talk to over Telegram, Discord, or Signal. But out of the box it can’t look up economic data. If you ask it about the latest GDP figures or what FRED series to use for inflation, it’s working from training data that might be months old. AgentPatch’s FRED Search tool changes that — your OpenClaw agent can search the Federal Reserve’s catalog of over 800,000 economic data series directly.

Why This Matters

FRED is the go-to source for US economic data, but finding the right series requires knowing the catalog. There are dozens of inflation measures, multiple unemployment rates, and hundreds of regional variants. The series IDs themselves — things like FEDFUNDS or T10Y2Y — aren’t self-explanatory.

With FRED Search connected through AgentPatch, your OpenClaw agent becomes a quick lookup tool for economic data. Ask it a plain-language question about an economic indicator and it’ll search FRED, find matching series, and tell you the series ID, frequency, units, and when it was last updated. Useful for researchers, analysts, or anyone who regularly works with economic data.

Setup

Add AgentPatch to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "agentpatch": {
        "transport": "streamable-http",
        "url": "https://agentpatch.ai/mcp",
        "headers": {
          "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard. Restart OpenClaw and it discovers all AgentPatch tools automatically.

Example

You’re chatting with your OpenClaw bot on Telegram and ask:

“What’s the FRED series for the 10-year Treasury yield?”

Your agent searches FRED directly:

Searching FRED for "10-year Treasury yield"...

The series you want is DGS10 — "Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at
10-Year Constant Maturity, Quoted on an Investment Basis". It's published
daily by the Board of Governors, not seasonally adjusted, and reported as a
percent. Last updated February 26, 2026.

There's also WGS10YR for weekly frequency if you don't need daily granularity.

The agent found the right series, gave you the ID, and offered an alternative at a different frequency. You didn’t need to open the FRED website or remember that “DGS10” is the magic string.

Same thing works for any economic concept — ask about housing prices, consumer confidence, money supply, or industrial production and your agent will find the relevant FRED series.

Wrapping Up

Once AgentPatch is connected, your OpenClaw agent can search FRED’s full economic data catalog from any chat platform. Each search costs 50 credits, and the same connection gives your agent access to every other tool on the marketplace — web search, email, image generation, and more. See what’s available at agentpatch.ai.

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