dbie-mcp

MCP server for the Database on Indian Economy — lets AI assistants search and fetch RBI economic data: 337 tables and series covering prices, growth, markets, banking, external sector, government finance and payments.

It is a thin, read-only layer over the site's static JSON payloads. No credentials, no writes.

Tools

| Tool | What it does | |-----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | search_tables | Fuzzy full-text search across every table and series | | list_tables | Browse sections and their tables | | get_series | Sliced observations for SDMX series — date range, column filter, units, as_of | | get_table | Any table's full JSON payload, with array truncation to protect context |

Use it

With Claude Code:

claude mcp add dbie -- npx -y @reserve-bank-innovation-hub/dbie-mcp

Or in any MCP client config:

{
    "mcpServers" : {
        "dbie" : {
            "command" : "npx",
            "args"    : [
                "-y",
                "@reserve-bank-innovation-hub/dbie-mcp"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Pointing at a specific deployment

Data comes from DBIE_BASE_URL (default https://dbie.rbihub.in). To use another deployment:

{
    "command" : "npx",
    "args"    : [
        "-y",
        "@reserve-bank-innovation-hub/dbie-mcp"
    ],
    "env"     : {
        "DBIE_BASE_URL" : "https://dev.dbie.rbihub.in"
    }
}

Data vintage

Responses reflect the deployment's last scrape of the RBI DBIE portal — not live data. Every response carries the source base URL, and series responses carry as_of (the latest observation period), so assistants can and should disclose the vintage.

Development

cd mcp
npm install
DBIE_BASE_URL=https://dev.dbie.rbihub.in node server.mjs

The server speaks MCP over stdio. Payload naming follows the site's convention: a page at/banking/liquidity-operations serves its data at /data/liquidity-operations.json; generic SDMX pages at/tables/<slug> serve /data/sdmx-<slug>.json.