# Alpaca AI Agent Skills

Alpaca publishes official AI agent skills for its tools, services, and developer workflows. Alpaca builds high performance APIs for Stock and Crypto Trading.

Browse 16 official AI agent skills across 2 Alpaca repositories, with install commands and source links.

Official page: https://skillscout.sh/official/alpacahq/
Markdown page: https://skillscout.sh/official/alpacahq/alpacahq_skills_skillscout.md
Vendor website: https://alpaca.markets/

## Prompt for your agent

Fetch this Markdown manifest as plain text: https://skillscout.sh/official/alpacahq/alpacahq_skills_skillscout.md. If your browser cannot display the Markdown directly, use curl or another text fetcher. Recommend the relevant Alpaca skills package or packages for my goal, explain which individual skills matter, and wait for my approval. After I approve, install with the npx command. If no project is open, install it as an agent skill I can use later.

## Skills packages

### alpacahq/alpaca-skills

Includes 14 official skills: backtest, market-data, trading-orders, money-precision, rate-limits-resilience, integration.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills -y
```

Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills

### alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha

Includes 2 official skills: alpaca-ts-alpha-sdk, starter-dashboard.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha -y
```

Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha

## Individual skills

### backtest

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@backtest -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/trading-api/backtest

### market-data

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@market-data -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/market-data

### trading-orders

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@trading-orders -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/trading-orders

### money-precision

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@money-precision -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/money-precision

### rate-limits-resilience

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@rate-limits-resilience -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/rate-limits-resilience

### integration

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@integration -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/integration

### sse-events

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@sse-events -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/sse-events

### reconciliation-idempotency

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@reconciliation-idempotency -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/reconciliation-idempotency

### account-onboarding

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@account-onboarding -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/account-onboarding

### funding-transfers

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@funding-transfers -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/funding-transfers

### journals

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@journals -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/broker-api/journals

### paper-trading

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@paper-trading -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/trading-api/paper-trading

### paper-trading-mcp

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@paper-trading-mcp -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/trading-api/paper-trading-mcp

### paper-trading-cli

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@paper-trading-cli -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-skills
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/trading-api/paper-trading-cli

### alpaca-ts-alpha-sdk

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha@alpaca-ts-alpha-sdk -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha/tree/HEAD/skills/alpaca-ts-alpha-sdk

### starter-dashboard

Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha.

Install:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha@starter-dashboard -y
```

Package: alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha
Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-ts-alpha/tree/HEAD/skills/starter-dashboard

## alpacahq/alpaca-skills package overview

Includes 14 official skills: backtest, market-data, trading-orders, money-precision, rate-limits-resilience, integration.

### Top skills in this package

- backtest: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.
- market-data: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.
- trading-orders: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.
- money-precision: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.
- rate-limits-resilience: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.
- integration: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.
- sse-events: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.
- reconciliation-idempotency: Official Alpaca skill from alpacahq/alpaca-skills.

### Install

Install the full package:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills -y
```

Install a specific skill:

```bash
npx skills add alpacahq/alpaca-skills@backtest -y
```

Use the package when you want your agent to choose the relevant skill from this official repository.

Source: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills#readme