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By LeoYeAI/agent-master-skills (GitHub) · coding · 2,186 stars · scanned at commit 8f88f9a
Execute trades, analyze markets, and manage portfolios using apcacli command-line tool for Alpaca's Trading API. Use when the user wants to trade stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, check market data, view positions, manage orders, or analyze their portfolio. Also use when they mention "buy," "sell," "trade," "market data," "stock price," "portfolio," "account balance," or "alpaca trading."
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
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- skills/alpaca-trading/README.md, line 43
cargo install apcacli - skills/alpaca-trading/README.md, line 48
2. Open a new terminal, then run: `cargo install apcacli` - skills/alpaca-trading/README.md, line 276
cargo install apcacli - skills/alpaca-trading/README.md, line 295
| **apcacli** | The CLI tool itself | `cargo install apcacli` | - skills/alpaca-trading/README.md, line 305
**Solution:** Install apcacli with `cargo install apcacli`. Make sure `~/.cargo/bin` is in your PATH. - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 30
brew install rustup - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 33
cargo install apcacli - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 38
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 40
cargo install apcacli - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 45
2. Open a new terminal, then: `cargo install apcacli` - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 116
cargo install apcacli - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 452
- **apcacli binary must be installed** - Install via `cargo install apcacli` - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 488
cargo install apcacli
Changes files outside its own folder
The author does not mention this.
Found in 3 places.
Runs commands on your computer
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.
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- skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 116
cargo install apcacli - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 131
export APCA_API_KEY_ID='your_paper_key_id' - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 138
export APCA_API_BASE_URL='https://api.alpaca.markets' - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 155
apcacli account get - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 161
apcacli account activity - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 167
apcacli account config <options> - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 176
apcacli order submit buy AAPL --value 1000 - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 188
apcacli order submit buy MSFT --quantity 10 --limit-price 420 - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 197
apcacli order submit sell AAPL --quantity 10 --stop-price 180 - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 208
apcacli order list - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 214
apcacli order get <ORDER_ID> - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 220
apcacli order cancel <ORDER_ID> - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 226
apcacli order cancel-all - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 234
apcacli position list - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 245
apcacli position get <SYMBOL> - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 252
apcacli position close <SYMBOL> - skills/alpaca-trading/SKILL.md, line 260
apcacli position close-all
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alpaca-trading already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/LeoYeAI/agent-master-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8f88f9a0dd5a1075d4f0c7626f9d960844d57575' -- 'skills/alpaca-trading' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/alpaca-trading' ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-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' ~/.claude/skills/'alpaca-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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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-08 | 8f88f9a | 79 |
| 2026-11-07 | 8f88f9a | 79 |