Use Case
Alpaca Trading is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Trade stocks and crypto via Alpaca API. Use for market data (quotes, bars, news), placing orders (market, limit, stop), checking positions, portfolio management, and account info. Supports both paper and live trading. Use when user asks about stock prices, wants to buy/sell securities, check portfolio, or manage trades. This guide walks you through installing Alpaca Trading, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Alpaca Trading: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install alpaca
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to finance & investment to trigger Alpaca Trading
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Alpaca Trading with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Alpaca Trading
Help me get started with Alpaca Trading
What can Alpaca Trading do for my finance & investment workflow?
Show me an example of using Alpaca Trading
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install alpacaOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install alpacaβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/alpaca/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.