alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli

What problem does it solve? Executing strategy signals as paper trades requires careful order construction, endpoint verification, and lifecycle tracking; this Skill gives an AI agent a guarded, step-by-step workflow to place and manage Alpaca paper-trading orders through the Alpaca CLI without ever risking a live account. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Guarded order submission: Verifies the CLI resolves to the paper endpoint with alpaca doctor, previews every order with --dry-run, and requires explicit confirmation before submitting. - Multi-asset order support: Handles US equities, options (including multi-leg mleg orders), and crypto with per-asset-class validation of order types, time-in-force, and extended-hours rules. - Full lifecycle management: Monitors fills, rejections, and cancellations, manages cancel/replace operations, and writes a complete audit trail (orders.json, order_log.csv, portfolio summaries) to a run folder. - Use Case: A backtest produces a buy signal on AAPL; the agent confirms the strategy with you, validates buying power and asset tradability, previews a limit order, submits it to the paper account, and reports the fill with portfolio impact. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to buy 10 shares of AAPL as a limit order at $185.50 in your Alpaca paper account using the Alpaca CLI.