alpaca-trading-paper-trading-mcp

82 / 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 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 installation or direct API coding required.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 4 places.

skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp/SKILL.md, line 59"command": "uvx",
skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp/SKILL.md, line 530- Python: `alpaca-py` (`pip install alpaca-py`)
skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp/reference.md, line 7Current MCP v2 installations use `uvx alpaca-mcp-server` with credentials in server configuration:

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skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp/reference.md, line 13"command": "uvx",

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 2 places.

skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp/SKILL.md, line 235jq -r '.mcpServers | keys[]' ~/.cursor/mcp.json
skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp/SKILL.md, line 245python3 -c 'import json,sys;d=json.load(open(sys.argv[1]));e=d["mcpServers"][sys.argv[2]].get("env") or {};print(e.get("ALPACA_PAPER_TRADE","unset"))' ~/.cursor

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-mcp' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-mcp' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alpaca-trading-paper-trading-mcp 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '0e7c35163ae462730de1f4a0bfafceac82b7d59b' -- 'skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp' ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-mcp' && 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-mcp' ~/.claude/skills/'alpaca-trading-paper-trading-mcp' (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`	82