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alpaca-trading-paper-trading

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By alpacahq/alpaca-skills (GitHub) · coding · 167 stars · scanned at commit 0e7c351

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 paper-trading environment. This generic version works with any Alpaca SDK, REST API call, or agent tool that can reach the Trading API.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

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