What problem does it solve? Turning a strategy signal into an actual order is error-prone: wrong order types, misconfigured accounts, or accidentally hitting a live environment can cause real damage. This Skill gives your AI agent a guarded, step-by-step workflow to execute trades safely in your Alpaca paper-trading account, with mandatory previews, confirmations, and a hard block on live credentials. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Guided order workflow: From strategy confirmation through parameter gathering, account verification, order preview, submission, and lifecycle monitoring (filled, partial, rejected, canceled, replaced). - Multi-asset support: Handles US equities, US options (including multi-leg orders and OCC symbology), and crypto, with per-asset-class validation of order types and time-in-force values. - Safety gates: Verifies the paper environment before every submission, checks buying power, options approval level, and crypto status, and refuses to proceed if live credentials are detected. - Use Case: You have a backtested signal to buy 10 shares of AAPL at a limit price. Your agent restates the strategy, shows a full order preview with buying-power impact, waits for your confirmation, submits to the paper account, and reports the fill and resulting portfolio concentration. ## Quick Start Ask your agent to preview and submit a paper order for a given symbol, side, and quantity, for example: "Buy 10 shares of AAPL with a limit order at $185.50 in my Alpaca paper account."
