MCP server for Veritas Acta — contribute, challenge, verify, and query contestable public records from AI coding tools.
List BLS survey programs with their abbreviation codes, full names, and metadata about calculation support and annual averages. Use to discover which survey covers a topic before calling bls_search_series. Optional category filter narrows results to prices, employment, wages, productivity, injuries, or time_use surveys.
ArgumentsA call is made on an account: it counts against an allowance and the publisher sees it, which is why this one asks who you are first.
What it does
Fetch BLS data series — CPI, unemployment, wages, JOLTS and more.
Quickstart
# 1 — install (mcprush login holds a key from your dashboard)
npx mcprush@latest add us-bureau-of-labor-statistics-mcp
# 2 — ask your agent something
> Fetch BLS data series — CPI, unemployment, wages, JOLTS and more.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics is free: there is no plan to choose, no cap to set and nothing that can bill you.
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. Nothing here runs on your machine — this server runs on the publisher’s own infrastructure behind our gateway, and what you install is the connection to it.
This is a public server: you run it yourself and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command.
claude mcp add --transport http us-bureau-of-labor-statistics-mcp https://bls-labor.caseyjhand.com/mcpReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
One config entry pointing at the gateway. The server itself runs on the publisher’s own infrastructure, so nothing from this listing executes on your machine.
6 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
List BLS survey programs with their abbreviation codes, full names, and metadata about calculation support and annual averages. Use to discover which survey covers a topic before calling bls_search_series. Optional category filter narrows results to prices, employment, wages, productivity, injuries, or time_use surveys.
Takes no parameters.
Search the BLS series catalog by natural language query, survey code, geographic area, or keywords to resolve cryptic SeriesIDs. Returns matching series with decoded components (survey, area, item, seasonal flag) and plain-language names. Use this before bls_get_series when you have a concept but not a SeriesID. Operates offline — no API quota consumed. Survey filter accepts two-letter codes (CU,
Takes no parameters.
Return the single most recent observation for one or more BLS series. Use for "what is X right now" questions — the current unemployment rate, the latest CPI reading, etc. Each series consumes one API query against the 500/day limit; for the current value of many series, bls_get_series with a 1-year window is more quota-efficient (one query for up to 50 series). Recommended limit: 10 series; maxim
Takes no parameters.
Fetch time-series data for 1–50 BLS series by SeriesID in a single API request (one query against the 500/day limit). Supports optional year range (up to 20 years per request) and BLS-computed period-over-period calculations (net change and percent change; a survey returns whichever it supports and silently omits the rest — CPI and PPI return percent change only, the inflation rate). Observations
Takes no parameters.
List canvas dataframes materialized by bls_get_series, with provenance (source tool, query parameters), TTL, row count, and column schema. Use before writing SQL to confirm column names. Lazy-sweeps expired tables before responding. Requires CANVAS_PROVIDER_TYPE=duckdb.
Takes no parameters.
Run a single-statement SELECT against the canvas dataframes registered by bls_get_series. Read-only: writes, DDL, DROP, COPY, PRAGMA, ATTACH, and external-file table functions are rejected. System catalogs (information_schema, pg_catalog, sqlite_master, duckdb_*) are denied at the bridge layer — use bls_dataframe_describe to list available dataframes. Supports JOINs, aggregates, window functions,
Takes no parameters.
- Every tool, no call limit
- No card, no account needed
- Source published under a licence you can read
- Runs on your machine — nothing of it reaches our gateway
- Nothing to cap, because nothing bills
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
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Nothing here is billable. US Bureau of Labor Statistics costs nothing to install and nothing to call, at any volume.
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This listing is a hosted endpoint: the publisher runs it and we connect to it. The scanner reads packages and source, and neither exists to read here, so there is no grade — not a withheld one, an unmeasured one. What can be checked instead is on Installation: what it asks to reach and what it writes.
Release history
Pinned to 0.4.12 — the install command below asks for that release. A pin is part of an install, so it is kept for this visit and written down when you install.
No release note was published with this version.
Only accounts with at least 50 real tool calls against this server in the last 90 days can post. Ratings are weighted by how much the reviewer actually uses it, and publishers can reply once per review.
Writing one takes an account with at least 50 real tool calls against US Bureau of Labor Statistics in the last 90 days. That is the whole gate — there is no other way to post, which is why the counts beside each review are worth reading.
Nobody has reviewed this listing. The rating on the card is the mean of the reviews written here and nothing else, so there is no rating until somebody writes the first — which takes an account with 50 real tool calls against it.