# `io.github.cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server
- Version: 0.6.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:33.676Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch US Bureau of Labor Statistics data — CPI, unemployment, wages, JOLTS, and more via MCP.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:11:44.630Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 1 change things and 5 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 5 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `bls_dataframe_query` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "bls_dataframe_query" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "bls_dataframe_query" says "query": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (1)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `bls_dataframe_query`

- The name "bls_dataframe_query" says "query": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "run": a word for a change.
- The input takes a statement or command to run (input.sql), which can change anything it can reach.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Run a single-statement SELECT against the canvas dataframes registered by bls_get_series or by an earlier register_as. 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, and CTEs. Optional register_as persists the result as a new dataframe with a fresh TTL for chained analysis. Canvas SQL operations consume zero BLS API quota. Requires CANVAS_PROVIDER_TYPE=duckdb.
```

## Only reads (5)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `bls_dataframe_describe`

- The name "bls_dataframe_describe" says "describe": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List canvas dataframes materialized by bls_get_series or by bls_dataframe_query register_as, with provenance (source tool, query parameters), TTL, row count, and column schema. Use before writing SQL to confirm column names and types. Lazy-sweeps expired tables before responding. Requires CANVAS_PROVIDER_TYPE=duckdb.
```

### `bls_get_latest`

- The name "bls_get_latest" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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; maximum: 50.
```

### `bls_get_series`

- The name "bls_get_series" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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). BLS can publish a '-' missing-value sentinel; check observation.available before arithmetic. Set annual_average to add each year's annual-average row, which is that year's mean rather than an additional period. When the total observation count would exceed the inline context budget, results spill to a canvas dataframe and the response includes a dataset.name handle. Call bls_dataframe_describe with that name to inspect the dataframe schema, then use the name in bls_dataframe_query SQL. Use bls_search_series first if you need to resolve a concept to a SeriesID.
```

### `bls_list_surveys`

- The name "bls_list_surveys" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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; bls_search_series covers only the surveys in its offline index, and series in the others are fetched by SeriesID with bls_get_series. Optional category filter narrows results to prices, employment, wages, productivity, injuries, or time_use surveys.
```

### `bls_search_series`

- The name "bls_search_series" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 publication frequency for surveys that publish one series at several frequencies) and plain-language names, ranked by relevance and paged with limit and offset. Use this before bls_get_series when you have a concept but not a SeriesID. Operates offline against an index of the major surveys — no API quota consumed. Survey filter accepts the two-letter code of an indexed survey (CU, AP, CE, LN, LA, PC, WP, JT, EC, PR, MP, CW, CM, CI; OE only when the server sets BLS_CATALOG_INCLUDE_OES=true); series in other surveys are fetched by SeriesID with bls_get_series. Area filter accepts state names, MSA names, or FIPS area codes.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `bls-labor`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__bls-labor__bls_list_surveys",
      "mcp__bls-labor__bls_search_series",
      "mcp__bls-labor__bls_get_latest",
      "mcp__bls-labor__bls_get_series",
      "mcp__bls-labor__bls_dataframe_describe"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__bls-labor__bls_dataframe_query"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```