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An AI teammate for Alpaca.

Connect Alpaca and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 100 Alpaca actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Alpaca
  • What broke in Alpaca overnight, and is it new?
  • Open a Alpaca issue for this bug with the steps from the Slack thread.
  • Summarise this week's Alpaca activity for the standup.
  • Tell me when something in Alpaca needs my attention.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Alpaca

100 Alpaca actions, picked for what you ask.

About Alpaca: Stock and crypto trading platform with commission-free trading, real-time market data, and algorithmic trading capabilities

Reads

84 in all · always allowed
  • Get News
    Retrieves news articles for specified crypto symbols from the Alpaca Market Data API.
  • Get Clock
    Retrieves the current market clock information from the Alpaca Trading API.
  • Get Account
    Retrieves account information for the authenticated Alpaca account.
  • Get Calendar
    Retrieves market calendar information for trading days from the Alpaca Trading API.
  • Get Exchanges
    Retrieves a list of supported stock exchanges with their short codes and full names from the Alpaca…
  • Get All Orders
    Retrieves all orders for an account based on specified filter criteria.
  • Get PDT Status
    Retrieves the Pattern Day Trader (PDT) status for a specified Alpaca trading account.
  • Get Watchlists
    Retrieves all watchlists associated with the authenticated account.
  • Get Option Chain
    Retrieves the option chain for a specific underlying symbol including quotes and greeks for all…
  • Get Subscription
    Retrieves a rebalancing subscription by its unique ID. Returns complete subscription details…

Changes

16 in all · off when Alpaca is read-only
  • Create Watchlist
    Creates a new watchlist for the authenticated account. Use this action when you need to: - Create a…
  • Create Watchlist
    Create a new watchlist for the authenticated account. Use when you need to create a watchlist to…
  • Add Asset to Watchlist
    Adds a symbol to an existing watchlist in the authenticated account.
  • Delete Watchlist By ID
    Delete a watchlist by its unique identifier. Use when you need to remove an entire watchlist that…
  • Update Watchlist By ID
    Updates an existing watchlist by its unique identifier. Use when you need to modify the name or…
  • Update Watchlist By Name
    Updates an existing watchlist by its name. Use when you need to modify the symbols in a watchlist…
  • Delete All Open Positions
    Liquidates all open positions by closing them at market price.
  • Delete Unsubscribe Account
    Delete a rebalancing subscription to unsubscribe an account.
  • Remove Asset From Watchlist
    Removes a symbol from an existing watchlist in Alpaca. Use this action when you need to delete a…
  • Remove Symbol From Watchlist
    Remove a symbol from an existing watchlist in Alpaca. Use when you need to delete a ticker symbol…

Showing 20 of 100. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Alpaca

    Open Connections, find Alpaca and paste an API key from your Alpaca account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Alpaca with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Alpaca job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Alpaca, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Alpaca and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Alpaca?

Yes. Alpaca is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Alpaca?

Open Connections, find Alpaca and paste an API key from your Alpaca account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Alpaca?

100 actions: 84 that read from Alpaca and 16 that change things in it, for example get news, get clock, get account. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Alpaca?

Yes. In Connections, set Alpaca to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Alpaca from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Alpaca jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Alpaca data safe?

Your Alpaca login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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