Bank Of Canada Mcp
io.github.arose26Published by GitHub account arose26v0.1.1Updated Oct 24, 2026
Bank of Canada economic data: exchange rates, policy rate, CPI, bond yields. No API key.
Overview
Lets an assistant look up Canadian economic data from the Bank of Canada, including exchange rates, the policy rate, CPI and bond yields.
- What you can do
- It connects an assistant to the Bank of Canada's free Valet API, which covers roughly 16,000 time series. Tools include keyword search across the series catalogue, retrieval of time-series observations for up to five series by date range or most recent values, today's official daily exchange rates against the Canadian dollar, and currency conversion using those rates. API errors are returned as tool errors so the model can re-search.
- When to use it
- Useful when questions involve Canadian macro data: the policy interest rate, CPI, bond yields, commodity prices, or CAD exchange rates. It suits analysis, charting and currency conversion tasks that need official Bank of Canada figures rather than general web results.
- Requirements
- Runs locally over stdio, typically started with npx from the npm package bank-of-canada-mcp, so Node.js and network access to the Bank of Canada Valet API are needed. No API key, environment variables or headers are declared. Desktop MCP clients only.
Installation
In SourceWeft
- Open Bank Of Canada Mcp in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
- Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.
Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.
Other MCP clients
Follow the launch instructions in the repository.
README
bank-of-canada-mcp
An MCP server that gives Claude and other LLMs live access to Canadian economic data via the Bank of Canada's free Valet API — ~16,000 time series covering exchange rates, the policy interest rate, CPI, bond yields, commodity prices, and more.
FRED, the World Bank, and the IMF all have MCP servers. Canada didn't — now it does.
No API key required.
Quick start
Claude Code
Claude Desktop — add to claude_desktop_config.json:
The same npx invocation works in Cursor, Windsurf, and any other MCP client.
Tools
Example prompts
- "What's the Bank of Canada's current policy rate, and how has it moved this year?"
- "Plot USD/CAD for the last 90 days."
- "Convert 2,500 EUR to CAD at today's official rate."
- "How does core CPI compare to headline CPI over the past two years?"
Development
Architecture: src/valet.ts is a plain API client with pure, unit-tested logic (search, conversion math); src/index.ts is the MCP wiring. Errors from the Valet API (e.g. an unknown series name) are returned as MCP tool errors with the API's own message, so the model can self-correct by re-searching.
Notes
- Rates are the Bank of Canada's indicative daily averages, published once per business day — not transactional quotes.
- Data is © Bank of Canada, used under their terms. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Bank of Canada.
Roadmap
- Statistics Canada Web Data Service tools
- Group browsing (
lists/groups) - Streamable HTTP transport for remote deployment
License
MIT
Source: README.md at commit d2ee238
Tools
0Version history
1- v0.1.1LatestSep 16, 2026
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