Use the `alice-workspace` CLI for collaboration and provenance: Inbox delivery, the global Issue board, tracked entities, peer files, and asking an attributable product Session. Use it when work must be surfaced, remembered, assigned, or followed back to the Agent that produced it. Read live help; never guess flags or use `issue comment` as a substitute for `issue ask`.
Define durable work and scheduled/headless execution with `.alice/issues/<id>.md`: structured ownership and optional `when` frontmatter plus one canonical markdown What. Use for creating or editing an Issue, choosing its assignee, schedule, prompt, delivery behavior, or health state. Use the `alice-workspace` skill instead when the goal is to ask another Session for an answer.
How to compute technical analysis with OpenAlice's Quant Calculator (v2) via `alice analysis` — a small Python/pandas-subset scripting language over K-lines, keyed by barId so you compute on a SPECIFIC source — prefer a broker's bars (matches what you trade, realtime) over a free vendor like yfinance (delayed fallback) — and can batch many timeframes/symbols/indicators in ONE call. Use whenever the task is technical/quantitative on price data: "RSI on BTC", "is AAPL above its 200-day", "50/200 golden cross check", "multi-timeframe momentum", "how extended is X (z-score)", "does this track the sector (correlation)", "trend strength", "compare 1h/4h/12h at once". Reach it with `alice analysis search-bars` (find a barId) then `alice analysis quant` (compute).
Trading on your shell PATH via the `alice-uta` CLI — OpenAlice's trading surface. These commands MUTATE real broker state, so resolve the broker-native contract first and report every result. Use whenever you need to place / modify / cancel an order; close a position; check an account, portfolio, or order/trade history; resolve a contract or quote; or drive the trading-as-git approval flow: "place a buy order for AAPL", "what's my position in ETH", "close half my TSLA", "find the contract for this option", "show pending trades", "approve my orders". Discover every group, verb, and flag with `alice-uta --help` and `alice-uta <group> <verb> --help` — do NOT guess flags.
Research & data on your shell PATH via the `alice` CLI — THIS WORKBENCH's read surfaces: the collected-RSS archive (`alice rss`), cross-asset symbol search (`alice market search` → barIds), and K-line quant analysis (`alice analysis`). Use for: "grep the collected feeds for the Fed", "find the barId for AAPL", "compute RSI on this chart", "I can't find a Taiwan/CN stock — add a data vendor". Output is JSON; discover every flag with `alice --help` / `alice <group> <verb> --help` — do NOT guess. (Low-frequency market data — fundamentals, macro series, calendars, boards — is the separate `traderhub` CLI; the quant scripting manual is the `alice-analysis` skill.)
Subjective retrospective / time-machine analysis: rewind a name to a past point, reconstruct what it looked like THEN (no future knowledge), align the news catalysts to the price path, and pressure-test "if I'd entered there, would it have worked?". Use when the question is about a past moment or a hypothetical entry: "rewind XLE to early April", "what did NVDA look like before earnings", "if we'd bought energy after the Iran headline, easy money?", "replay the SMH spike — policy or earnings?", "was there an entry signal at the time", "would an 8% trailing stop have saved me", "event study on the Hormuz escalation". It strings together the as-of snapshot, the date-windowed news, and the backtest into one honest replay — and it is ruthless about data freshness, because a retro built on a stale or future-leaking price is worse than no retro.
Build a two-sided, falsifiable thesis on a specific name — the left side (does the number stand up, and where do you differ from consensus) and the right side (is the market itself favoring this — sector, capital, macro, trend). Use when the user has a ticker but no conviction yet: "is the NVDA thesis real", "build a thesis on X", "should I believe the X story", "bull and bear case for Y", "stress-test my view on Z", "is X already priced in", "left side or right side on X", "everyone's buying Y, should I". This is the have-a-name / no-conviction step — it picks up where a value-chain scan hands off ("the next question: is the thesis real?") and turns a name into a thesis you can act on and later monitor.
Read-only access to the long tail of sites Alice's own tools do NOT cover, via the community `opencli` CLI (~160 site adapters): social sentiment (Reddit, HackerNews, Twitter/X, Bluesky, Xueqiu 雪球, Weibo), options flow (Barchart), crypto long-tail (CoinGecko, DeFiLlama, Binance), global news frontpages (Bloomberg, Reuters, BBC), CN money-flow (Eastmoney 东方财富 northbound / longhu / money-flow / hot-rank), research (arXiv, PubMed, Google Scholar), and a generic `web read` fallback. Triggers: "what's reddit / 雪球 saying about X", "unusual options flow on Y", "TVL of Z", "Bloomberg headlines", "northbound flow today", "search arXiv for…", any read from a site Alice has no tool for. READ-ONLY — never invoke write commands. opencli is NOT bundled with OpenAlice: if it's missing and a task would benefit, you MUST say so and ask the user — never install silently, never silently work with thinner data.