fred-economic-data
90 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.
Query FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) API for 800,000+ economic time series from 100+ sources. Access GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, housing, and regional data. Use for macroeconomic analysis, financial research, policy studies, economic forecasting, and academic research requiring U.S. and international economic indicators.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
Connects to the internet
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'fred-economic-data' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'fred-economic-data' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named fred-economic-data already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '9a4b2db21fc4b217136ae4a0e6faad42d179ca03' -- 'data-sourcing/fred-economic-data' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'data-sourcing/fred-economic-data' ~/.agents/skills/'fred-economic-data' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'fred-economic-data' ~/.claude/skills/'fred-economic-data' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 9a4b2db | 90 |