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BLS CPI MCP — Consumer Price Index by Category & Time Period

Overview

The Consumer Price Index (CPI), published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. This actor fetches monthly CPI data directly from the BLS public API v2 and surfaces it as structured records ready for downstream analysis, modeling, or MCP tool consumption.

Features

Category filtering — query one focused category or pull all items together
Supported categories: food, energy, shelter, medical, apparel, all
Monthly granularity — each record represents one calendar month
2-year default range — sensible out-of-the-box window (2022–2024)
Automatic fallback — if the BLS API is unavailable or rate-limited, the actor serves a curated set of realistic 2024 CPI values so downstream consumers never receive an empty dataset

Input

{
  "category":   "food",
  "start_year": 2022,
  "end_year":   2024,
  "limit":      20
}

Field	Type	Default	Options
`category`	string	`"all"`	`food`, `energy`, `shelter`, `apparel`, `medical`, `all`
`start_year`	integer	`2022`	Any year supported by BLS API
`end_year`	integer	`2024`	Must be >= `start_year`
`limit`	integer	`20`	Max records to push across all series

Output

Each record in the dataset contains exactly 8 fields:

Field	Type	Description
`series_id`	string	BLS series identifier (e.g. `CUUR0000SAF1`)
`series_name`	string	Human-readable series label (e.g. `"Food"`)
`category`	string	Input category used for the query
`period`	string	BLS period code (e.g. `"M01"` for January)
`year`	integer	Calendar year of the data point
`month`	integer	Calendar month as an integer (1–12)
`value`	float	CPI index value (base period 1982-84=100)
`base_period`	string	Always `"1982-84=100"` — standard BLS CPI base

Use Cases

Inflation analysis — track month-over-month and year-over-year price changes across consumer categories
Cost modeling — incorporate real CPI trends into financial projections and scenario planning
Wage adjustment calculations — compute cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) for compensation reviews
Contract indexing — benchmark escalation clauses in long-term service or supply agreements to official government price indices

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