Unemployment Rate Skill

Overview

Unemployment Rate provides annual unemployment data from the World Bank, based on ILO (International Labour Organization) modeled estimates. The data covers virtually every country in the world and is updated annually. Use this for economic analysis, country comparisons, and labor market research.

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The tool

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as UnemploymentRateSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "UnemploymentRateSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "country": "USA"
  }
}

You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about USA in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for UnemploymentRateSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Per-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.

Argument	Type	Description
`country`Required	string	ISO country code (2 or 3 letter). Examples: US, USA, DE, DEU, GB, GBR length 2–3
`year`OptionalPremium	integer	Specific year to retrieve data for (1991-present). Returns latest if not specified. range 1991–2030

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "country": "USA",
    "countryName": "United States",
    "year": 2024,
    "count": 1,
    "historical": [
      {
        "year": 2024,
        "rate": 4.02
      }
    ]
  },
  "code": 200
}

Response fields

Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.

Field	Type	Example	Description
`country`	string	`USA`	ISO code representing the country queried
`countryName`	string	`United States`	Full official name of the country
`year`	number	`2024`	Year of the unemployment data returned
`count`	number	`1`	Number of historical records available
`historical`Premium	array[1]		Array of historical unemployment rates by year
`historical.0.year`Premium	number	`2024`	Year for historical unemployment record
`historical.0.rate`Premium	number	`4.02`	Unemployment rate as percentage of labor force

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.

Status	What it means
`400` / `422`	The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity.
`404`	This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart.

A call costs 2 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Use cases

Economic Analysis: Analyze unemployment trends to understand economic health and labor market conditions
Country Comparison: Compare unemployment rates across different countries and regions
Historical Research: Track unemployment changes over time to study economic cycles and policy impacts
Investment Research: Factor unemployment data into investment decisions and economic forecasting

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