v1.0.0 Stable release

[AnthonyPuggs]

v1.0.0 Stable release

This is the first stable release of ausecon-mcp-server: a local stdio MCP server for analyst-friendly access to Australian economic data from the ABS and RBA.

Highlights

• Added list_economic_concepts, a model-controlled discovery tool for curated economic concepts.
• Made get_economic_series the preferred LLM-facing retrieval path for economists and analysts.
• Added natural date bounds for semantic retrieval: YYYY, YYYY-Qn, YYYY-Sn, YYYY-MM, and YYYY-MM-DD.
• Preserved source-native expert tools for direct ABS and RBA access.
• Added semantic provenance metadata to retrieval responses.
• Reworked MCP prompts so generated tool calls are valid, bounded, and aligned with the registered tool schemas.
• Added human-readable MCP tool titles and clearer server instructions.
• Deprecated list_rba_tables as a compatibility alias in favour of list_catalogue(source="rba").

New Semantic Discovery Workflow

list_economic_concepts now exposes analyst-friendly concepts with:

• concept name
• source
• dataset id
• variant
• frequency
• geography
• description
• aliases
• recommended get_economic_series call

This gives LLM clients a direct model-controlled discovery surface instead of relying only on MCP resources.

Improved get_economic_series

get_economic_series now accepts natural analyst date bounds and normalises them internally:

• RBA concepts are resolved to ISO date ranges.
• ABS concepts are resolved to the appropriate ABS period format.
• Raw get_abs_data and get_rba_table remain strict and source-native.

Semantic responses now include provenance metadata covering the requested bounds, resolved bounds, concept, variant, geography, frequency, and upstream target.

MCP UX And Standards

This release improves alignment with current MCP expectations:

• tools expose clearer descriptions and annotation titles
• prompts generate executable, schema-valid calls
• response schema documents optional semantic metadata
• README now separates the LLM-friendly semantic workflow from the source-native expert workflow
• ausecon://concepts and list_economic_concepts now share one concept-index implementation

Compatibility Notes

list_rba_tables remains available but is now deprecated as a compatibility alias. New clients should use:

list_catalogue(source="rba")


<hr /><em>This discussion was created from the release <a href='https://github.com/AnthonyPuggs/ausecon-mcp-server/releases/tag/v1.0.0'>v1.0.0 Stable release</a>.</em>