# Fed Economic Snapshot (FRED Bundle)

> Fed Economic Snapshot (FRED Bundle) is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches Federal Reserve key economic indicators — fed funds rate, unemployment rate, and CPI — in a single bundled API call powered by three FRED series lookups.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent402.tools/api/skill/fred-snapshot
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fed-economic-snapshot-fred-bundle-cf2b7ce1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_oin-cwSm_RwXm_q6vpJ6w

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fed-economic-snapshot-fred-bundle-cf2b7ce1 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Give me a snapshot of the current US economic conditions — fed funds rate, unemployment rate, and CPI — all in one shot from the Federal Reserve data.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need all three core Federal Reserve economic indicators (fed funds rate, unemployment, CPI) at once and want to avoid three separate API calls. It is ideal for macro economic dashboards, financial analysis agents, or any workflow needing a quick US economic health snapshot. Prefer this over individual FRED series calls when cost efficiency (one $0.10 payment vs three) and latency matter.

## Known failure modes

- FRED API unavailable or rate-limited — returns partial-success or error for affected series
- Invalid or malformed request body — returns 400 validation error
- Payment not processed — x402 payment failure blocks execution
- Partial success if one or more underlying FRED series queries fail while others succeed

## How this service works

Bundled execution of the Fed economic snapshot workflow - Key Federal Reserve economic indicators - fed funds rate, unemployment, and CPI - in one call. One x402 payment runs 3 underlying tools (fred-series, fred-series, fred-series); partial-success per step.

## Output

Returns the latest values for three FRED economic series: the federal funds rate, the US unemployment rate, and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), aggregated from a single bundled call to three underlying FRED series lookups.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "required": [],
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "pack",
      "args",
      "steps",
      "summary"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "args": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "pack": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "steps": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "ok": {
          "type": "boolean"
         },
         "slug": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "result": {
          "type": "object"
         }
        }
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "args": {},
  "pack": "fred-snapshot",
  "steps": [
   {
    "ok": true,
    "slug": "fred-series",
    "result": {}
   },
   {
    "ok": true,
    "slug": "fred-series",
    "result": {}
   },
   {
    "ok": true,
    "slug": "fred-series",
    "result": {}
   }
  ],
  "summary": "3/3 steps succeeded"
 }
}
```

## More

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