Repository
alpacahq/alpaca-skills agent skills
- skills
- 14
- GitHub stars
- 154
GitHub description: “Agent skills for Alpaca's Trading API and Broker API: drop-in SKILL.md files for AI coding assistants”
- Stars
- 154 (17 forks)
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Last push
- Sep 2026
- Created
- Jun 2026
- Homepage
- app.alpaca.markets
- agent-skills
- ai-agents
- alpaca
- antigravity
- broker-api
- claude-code
- codex
- cursor
- trading-api
- vscode
Install all skills
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skillsAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in alpacahq/alpaca-skills, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Open and manage brokerage accounts via the Alpaca Broker API — account creation, KYC/CIP, identity & disclosures, agreements, document upload (incl. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 2 | Move money between an Alpaca brokerage account and the EXTERNAL banking world via the Broker API — ACH relationships, wire recipient banks, classic transfers (deposits/withdrawals), the v1beta… | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 3 | Entry point for integrating with the Alpaca Broker API (plus Market Data and Trading APIs) in any programming language. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Move cash (JNLC) and securities (JNLS) BETWEEN accounts inside your own Alpaca omnibus via the Broker API — single, batch, and reverse-batch journals, the Idempotency-Key header, journal status… | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 5 | Handle money and numeric precision correctly with the Alpaca API — numbers-as-strings on the wire, decimals vs floats, rounding/truncation before sending amounts, fractional-share precision, and… | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 6 | Make Alpaca API clients resilient — rate-limit header handling, HTTP 429 backoff, exponential retry, bounded concurrency/worker pools, pagination loops, batch sizing, and timeouts. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 7 | Keep local state correct against the Alpaca Broker API — idempotency keys, ID-keyed upserts, event snapshotting and dedup, polling rails that have no events, nightly reconciliation/heal jobs, status… | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 8 | Consume Alpaca Broker API real-time event streams over Server-Sent Events (SSE) — account status, journal, transfer/funding, trade, and non-trade-activity events — reliably. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 9 | Place and manage orders on behalf of accounts via the Alpaca Broker API — order creation (qty vs notional, fractional shares, order types/TIF/classes), order status lifecycle, replace/cancel… | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 10 | Execute deterministic, reproducible historical backtests from a start date, end date, and strategy concept using the Alpaca CLI plus agent-written workspace code. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 11 | Preview, submit, inspect, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders across US equities, options, and crypto. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 12 | Preview, submit, inspect, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders using the Alpaca CLI. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 13 | Preview, submit, inspect, and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders using the Alpaca Trading API MCP Server. | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 14 | Pull and stream US stock market data from Alpaca — REST snapshots/bars/trades/quotes, historical bars with timeframes and feeds (IEX vs SIP), the assets master list, market clock & calendar, news… | alpacahq/ | 154 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in alpacahq/alpaca-skills?
Alpaca Broker Account Onboarding from alpacahq/alpaca-skills ranks first of the 14 skills in alpacahq/alpaca-skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 154 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Alpaca Broker Funding Transfers and Alpaca Broker Integration.
Are the skills in alpacahq/alpaca-skills official?
None yet. All 14 skills in alpacahq/alpaca-skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from alpacahq/alpaca-skills?
Run npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.