Trade Balance

What it grounds

Ground agents in verifiable US trade figures from FRED — exports, imports and the balance since 1992 — so economic answers cite real data.

Ways to ground with it

Stop stale-number hallucinations

An agent asked about prices or rates will happily invent a figure. Enable Trade Balance and it calls the tradebalance tool to check the live number before it answers — so the reply rests on real data, not the model's memory.

Ground a research or trading assistant

Give a market assistant a source it can actually cite: every figure it reports carries Trade Balance as its origin, so a human can trace where the number came from.

Fresh at answer time

Because the model pulls trade balance at the moment it responds, the answer reflects the market now — not whatever was true when the model was trained.

Connect over MCP

Point your agent framework at the VerveContext endpoint. Every enabled source — this one included — becomes a tool the model can call. No per-source plumbing.

context.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervecontext": {
      "url": "https://api.vervecontext.com/v1/mcp",
      "headers": { "x-api-key": "vc_live_••••" }
    }
  }
}

# “tradebalance” is now a tool your agent can call

Facts your agent can cite

Each call returns structured fields your agent can read — and trace back to this source.

yearMonth
year
month
customsDuties
updatedAt

Trade Balance, answered

How to ground an agent in it over MCP.

How do I give my agent Trade Balance?

Enable it on VerveContext and point your agent framework at the VerveContext MCP endpoint. Trade Balance then appears to the model as a tool named tradebalance, which it calls when a task needs it — no per-source plumbing.

Which agents and frameworks can use it?

Any MCP client — Claude, Cursor, LangChain, and custom agents all speak the Model Context Protocol. Trade Balance is exposed as a standard tool, so nothing source-specific is required.

Can the agent cite Trade Balance?

Yes. Trade Balance is verifiable factual grounding — every value the agent pulls can carry Trade Balance as its source, so a person (or another system) can trace where the fact came from.

How many credits does a Trade Balance call cost?

Each call costs 1 credit. Scoped keys let you grant an agent only the sources it should reach, and usage logs show exactly what was pulled to ground each answer.

How current is the data?

Trade Balance is served live from APIVerve's production data engine and pulled at the moment the agent calls it, so answers reflect the world now rather than the model's training cutoff. It draws on since 1992.

Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?

VerveContext runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Trade Balance is one of 300+ sources on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.

Stop stale-number hallucinations

Ground a research or trading assistant

Fresh at answer time

Trade Balance, answered

Ground your agents in Trade Balance. Connect over MCP, enable the source, and every answer carries its receipts.

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