FRED Navigator

Purpose

Provide a reliable workflow to navigate FRED categories and series, with support for:

1. Direct category_id
2. Direct series_id
3. Natural-language query → intent recognition → double validation

Inputs

• category_id: FRED category id
• series_id: FRED series id
• query: natural language request
• limit: number of candidates to return (default 5)
• api_key: read from environment FRED_API_KEY only

Required Resources