Connect Public Research (United States) to Codex
Query Public Research (United States) directly from Codex. Arlet links the two through one MCP connection and takes care of API keys.
An index of reports and announcements published by public institutions of United States (#1258), built from their official feeds. Nothing is stored server-side (fetched on call, short-lived memory cache only).
Cards are split by which institution published a report: this card carries only public institutions of United States; other countries' institutions live on their own cards.
Tools:
- search_us_public_reports: keyword search (omit query for newest first).
- fetch_report_content: always returns available=false plus the official URL (metadata-only index).
Institutions covered (9; feeds and each institution's terms of use verified against primary sources on 2026-08-12):
- Federal Reserve Board (federalreserve.gov, id: us-frb) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- Federal Reserve Board - FEDS Notes (federalreserve.gov, id: us-frb-research) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- U.S. Government Accountability Office (gao.gov, id: us-gao) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- Congressional Budget Office (cbo.gov, id: us-cbo) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- U.S. Census Bureau (census.gov, id: us-census) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (bea.gov, id: us-bea) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (eia.gov, id: us-eia) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist.gov, id: us-nist) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
- U.S. Department of Energy (energy.gov, id: us-doe) - Public domain (U.S. government work)
Per-record `license` and `tos_url` carry the reuse terms. Where an institution requires permission for reproduction or commercial use, the official description is withheld and only title, date and URL are returned.
How to connect Public Research (United States) to Codex
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In the Arlet dashboard, open Data tools, find Public Research (United States) and switch it on. No API key setup is needed.
- 2
In your terminal, run codex mcp add arlet --url https://mcp.arlet.dev/mcp/ to add Arlet as an MCP server.
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Codex detects OAuth support and opens your browser. Sign in with Google and click Allow on the consent screen.
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Once connected, both the CLI and the IDE extension can call Arlet tools (the configuration is shared).
If the browser does not open, run codex mcp login arlet to redo the authentication.
