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alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli
89 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.
By alpacahq/alpaca-skills (GitHub) · coding · 167 stars · scanned at commit 0e7c351
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 command-line interface.
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.
Found in 26 places.
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- skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 66
alpaca profile login --help - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 72
alpaca doctor - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 153
alpaca --help-all # full command tree with every flag - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 200
alpaca asset get --symbol-or-asset-id AAPL - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 259
alpaca doctor - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 286
alpaca account get - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 301
alpaca account get --jq '.buying_power' - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 309
alpaca account get --jq '{options_approved_level, options_trading_level, options_buying_power}' - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 351
alpaca order submit \ - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 397
CLIENT_ORDER_ID="$(uuidgen)" - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 434
alpaca order get-by-client-id --client-order-id "$CLIENT_ORDER_ID" - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 446
alpaca order get --order-id {order_id} - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 457
alpaca order list --status open - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 498
alpaca position list - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 504
alpaca position get --symbol-or-asset-id AAPL - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 510
alpaca account get - skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli/SKILL.md, line 535
alpaca order cancel --order-id {order_id}
and 6 more places
Downloads and installs other software
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
Found in 3 places.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '0e7c35163ae462730de1f4a0bfafceac82b7d59b' -- 'skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli' ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli' ~/.claude/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|
| 2026-11-07 | 0e7c351 | 89 |