alpacahq/alpaca-skills

alpaca-trading-example

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alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli

Preview, submit, inspect, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders using the Alpaca CLI. Supports US equities, options, and crypto. Use this skill when you want your AI agent to take a strategy signal and execute it as a paper trade through the Alpaca…

alpaca-trading-paper-trading-mcp

Preview, submit, inspect, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders using the Alpaca Trading API MCP Server. Supports US equities, options, and crypto. Use this skill when you want your AI agent to execute paper trades through MCP tool calls — no CLI…

alpaca-trading-paper-trading

Preview, submit, inspect, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders across US equities, options, and crypto. Use this skill when you want your AI agent to take a strategy signal — from a backtest, manual idea, or automated system — and execute it safely in your…

alpaca-broker-account-onboarding

Open and manage brokerage accounts via the Alpaca Broker API — account creation, KYC/CIP, identity & disclosures, agreements, document upload (incl. W-8BEN), account status lifecycle, and account updates/closure. Use when a developer is building onboarding,…

alpaca-broker-funding-transfers

Move money between an Alpaca brokerage account and the EXTERNAL banking world via the Broker API — ACH relationships, wire recipient banks, classic transfers (deposits/withdrawals), the v1beta funding wallet (international/instant), transfer status…

alpaca-broker-integration

Entry point for integrating with the Alpaca Broker API (plus Market Data and Trading APIs) in any programming language. Use when a developer wants to build on Alpaca — open brokerage accounts, run KYC, fund accounts, move money via journals, place orders,…

alpaca-broker-journals

Move cash (JNLC) and securities (JNLS) BETWEEN accounts inside your own Alpaca omnibus via the Broker API — single, batch, and reverse-batch journals, the Idempotency-Key header, journal status lifecycle including corrections, and the firm/sweep-account…

alpaca-broker-market-data

Pull and stream US stock market data from Alpaca — REST snapshots/bars/trades/quotes, historical bars with timeframes and feeds (IEX vs SIP), the assets master list, market clock & calendar, news, and the real-time WebSocket stream. Use when building charts,…

alpaca-broker-money-precision

Handle money and numeric precision correctly with the Alpaca API — numbers-as-strings on the wire, decimals vs floats, rounding/truncation before sending amounts, fractional-share precision, and safe DB storage. Use when handling monetary amounts, order…

alpaca-broker-rate-limits-resilience

Make Alpaca API clients resilient — rate-limit header handling, HTTP 429 backoff, exponential retry, bounded concurrency/worker pools, pagination loops, batch sizing, and timeouts. Use when building robust REST clients, bulk/cron jobs, or reconciliation…

alpaca-broker-reconciliation-idempotency

Keep local state correct against the Alpaca Broker API — idempotency keys, ID-keyed upserts, event snapshotting and dedup, polling rails that have no events, nightly reconciliation/heal jobs, status state-machine mapping, and handling eventual consistency and…

alpaca-broker-sse-events

Consume Alpaca Broker API real-time event streams over Server-Sent Events (SSE) — account status, journal, transfer/funding, trade, and non-trade-activity events — reliably. Covers connection, auth, replay cursors (since/since_id), heartbeats,…

alpaca-broker-trading-orders

Place and manage orders on behalf of accounts via the Alpaca Broker API — order creation (qty vs notional, fractional shares, order types/TIF/classes), order status lifecycle, replace/cancel, positions, and trading-account buying power. Use when building…

alpaca-trading-backtest

Execute deterministic, reproducible historical backtests from a start date, end date, and strategy concept using the Alpaca CLI plus agent-written workspace code. Use when the user wants to backtest a strategy, simulate historical trades, or return trades,…