From 768f37575035161c8ed6437283786e980caa6e01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt McKay <mmcky@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 16:18:09 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] TEMP: probe FRED endpoints from a GitHub runner (do not
 merge)

---
 .github/workflows/fred-probe.yml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/fred-probe.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/fred-probe.yml b/.github/workflows/fred-probe.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5a015d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/fred-probe.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# TEMPORARY diagnostic — never merge. Which FRED endpoints answer from a
+# GitHub-hosted runner, and with which user agent?
+name: fred-probe
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  probe:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: fredgraph.csv and the API, several user agents, 25s cap each
+        run: |
+          probe () {
+            printf '%-70s %-22s ' "$1" "$2"
+            curl -sS -o /dev/null -m 25 -A "$2" -w "http %{http_code}  %{size_download}B  %{time_total}s\n" "$1" || echo "FAILED (curl exit $?)"
+          }
+          U="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=UNRATE"
+          probe "$U" "qeld-builder"
+          probe "$U" "python-urllib/3.12"
+          probe "$U" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Safari/537.36"
+          probe "$U" "curl/8.5.0"
+          probe "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE.txt" "qeld-builder"
+          probe "https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/observations?series_id=UNRATE&file_type=json" "qeld-builder"
+          probe "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Safari/537.36"
+          echo "--- runner egress IP: $(curl -s -m 10 https://api.ipify.org)"

From ab46733fb0b73c3720864f8a24b19aba812da7aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt McKay <mmcky@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 16:19:10 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] TEMP: FRED probe step (probe branch only, do not merge)

---
 .github/workflows/consumed-file-check.yml | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 .github/workflows/fred-probe.yml          | 24 -------------------
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .github/workflows/fred-probe.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/consumed-file-check.yml b/.github/workflows/consumed-file-check.yml
index 6d6a713..7e07834 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/consumed-file-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/consumed-file-check.yml
@@ -52,3 +52,31 @@ jobs:
             echo "::error file=CATALOG.md::CATALOG.md is stale. A manifest changed without regenerating the catalog — run 'python scripts/build_catalog.py' and commit the result."
             exit 1
           }
+
+      # TEMPORARY diagnostic (probe branch only, never merge): which FRED
+      # endpoints answer from a GitHub-hosted runner, with which user agent?
+      - name: FRED probe
+        run: |
+          probe () {
+            printf 'PROBE %-75s %-20s ' "$1" "$2"
+            curl -sS -o /dev/null -m 25 -A "$2" -w "http %{http_code}  %{size_download}B  %{time_total}s\n" "$1" || echo "FAILED (curl exit $?)"
+          }
+          U="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=UNRATE"
+          probe "$U" "qeld-builder"
+          probe "$U" "Python-urllib/3.12"
+          probe "$U" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Safari/537.36"
+          probe "$U" "curl/8.5.0"
+          probe "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE.txt" "qeld-builder"
+          probe "https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/observations?series_id=UNRATE&file_type=json" "qeld-builder"
+          echo "PROBE egress IP: $(curl -s -m 10 https://api.ipify.org)"
+          echo "PROBE python urllib, qeld-builder UA, 25s timeout:"
+          python - <<'PY'
+          import urllib.request, time
+          for ua in ['qeld-builder', 'Python-urllib/3.12', 'Mozilla/5.0']:
+              t=time.time()
+              try:
+                  r=urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request('https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=UNRATE', headers={'User-Agent': ua}), timeout=25)
+                  print(f'PROBE urllib {ua!r}: {r.status} {len(r.read())}B {time.time()-t:.1f}s')
+              except Exception as e:
+                  print(f'PROBE urllib {ua!r}: {type(e).__name__} {str(e)[:60]} after {time.time()-t:.1f}s')
+          PY
diff --git a/.github/workflows/fred-probe.yml b/.github/workflows/fred-probe.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e5a015d..0000000
--- a/.github/workflows/fred-probe.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# TEMPORARY diagnostic — never merge. Which FRED endpoints answer from a
-# GitHub-hosted runner, and with which user agent?
-name: fred-probe
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-jobs:
-  probe:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: fredgraph.csv and the API, several user agents, 25s cap each
-        run: |
-          probe () {
-            printf '%-70s %-22s ' "$1" "$2"
-            curl -sS -o /dev/null -m 25 -A "$2" -w "http %{http_code}  %{size_download}B  %{time_total}s\n" "$1" || echo "FAILED (curl exit $?)"
-          }
-          U="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=UNRATE"
-          probe "$U" "qeld-builder"
-          probe "$U" "python-urllib/3.12"
-          probe "$U" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Safari/537.36"
-          probe "$U" "curl/8.5.0"
-          probe "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/UNRATE.txt" "qeld-builder"
-          probe "https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/observations?series_id=UNRATE&file_type=json" "qeld-builder"
-          probe "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/128 Safari/537.36"
-          echo "--- runner egress IP: $(curl -s -m 10 https://api.ipify.org)"