Fed’s Waller: AI agents drive about half of FRED traffic

This is a notable signal about how machine-readable public data is becoming the primary interface for economic information: when AI agents generate roughly half of visits to a flagship central bank database, the audience for official statistics is shifting from humans to automated systems. The St. Louis Fed's MCP Connector and agent skills development suggest institutions are adapting to that shift rather than resisting it. Whether other official data providers follow with similar agent-facing infrastructure is the open question.