alpacahqOfficial·12 Agent Skills Included

alpaca-skills

Brokerage account onboarding, funding, trading, and backtesting workflows

Guides developers through Alpaca Trading and Broker API workflows: opening accounts, running KYC, moving money, placing orders, streaming market data, and running backtests. Eliminates common production failures like duplicate money transfers, missed events, float rounding errors, and rate-limit crashes. Provides step-by-step guardrails, status state machines, and reconciliation patterns so integrations work reliably in any programming language.

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npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills --all -g -y

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alpaca-trading-example

Automate Alpaca trading operations including orders, positions, and market data.

alpaca-broker-market-data

Access real-time and historical US stock market data via the Alpaca Market Data API.

alpaca-broker-integration

Integrate with the Alpaca Broker API for account management, trading, and market data.

alpaca-broker-reconciliation-idempotency

Manage local state convergence with the Alpaca Broker API via idempotent processing and reconciliation.

alpaca-broker-rate-limits-resilience

Handle Alpaca API rate limits, retries, backoff, concurrency, and pagination.

alpaca-broker-money-precision

Perform string-based monetary calculations for Alpaca's Broker API.

alpaca-broker-account-onboarding

Automates brokerage account creation, KYC, and lifecycle management via the Alpaca Broker API.

alpaca-broker-journals

Create and manage JNLC and JNLS journals via the Alpaca Broker API.

alpaca-broker-sse-events

Manages and replays Server-Sent Event streams from the Alpaca Broker API.

alpaca-broker-trading-orders

Automate order placement, management, and tracking for Alpaca Broker API accounts.

alpaca-broker-funding-transfers

Automate ACH, wire, and funding wallet transfers via the Alpaca Broker API.

alpaca-trading-backtest

Execute historical backtests for trading strategies using Alpaca's Trading API.

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How to install alpaca-skills?▼

Run `npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills --all -g -y` in your terminal to install all skills globally. You also need the Alpaca CLI and API credentials for the workflows to run.

What can I build with Alpaca skills?▼

You can build brokerage integrations that open accounts, run KYC, fund accounts via ACH or wire, move cash between accounts, place stock and crypto orders, and stream real-time market data.

Can I backtest a trading strategy with these skills?▼

Yes. The backtest skill runs reproducible historical simulations using the Alpaca CLI, saving all data, code, and reports to a run folder with required disclosures.

Do these skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?▼

Yes. Every skill follows the standard SKILL.md format and works in Claude Code, Cursor, and other compatible coding agents.

Is it safe to let an agent place trades?▼

The paper-trading skills only submit to Alpaca's simulated paper environment and include hard stops that block live trading, plus order previews and confirmation steps before any submission.