Finance & Accounting
Connect Alpaca to Your AI Agents
Enable Wkil agents to read account status, positions, orders, and market data through Alpaca's brokerage API.
Authentication: API key
What you can do
- Check account balance, positions, and orders
- Pull historical and latest market data
Available capabilities may vary by authentication and workspace configuration.
Actions supported by the connector
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Get Account
Retrieve account balance, buying power, and status.
Get All Orders
List submitted trading orders.
Get All Open Positions
List current open stock and crypto positions.
Get Historical Bars for Stock Symbol
Retrieve historical price bars for a stock symbol.
Get Latest Quote for Stock Symbol
Get the latest bid/ask quote for a stock.
Get News
Retrieve recent market news for a symbol or the broader market.
Get Option Chain
List available option contracts for an underlying symbol.
Get Calendar
Retrieve market open and close times for trading days.
Get Watchlists
List the symbol watchlists configured on the account.
Create Watchlist
Create a new watchlist of symbols to track.
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Get Most Active Stocks
List the stocks with the highest trading activity right now.
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Practical agent use cases
- An agent checks buying power before evaluating whether to place a trade.
- An agent pulls the latest market news for a watchlisted symbol each morning.
- An agent reports open positions and their current value at end of day.
How it works with Wkil
- 1Choose the integrationAdd Alpaca to your agent from inside the Wkil platform.
- 2Grant the permissions it needsDefine precisely what the agent can access and perform.
- 3Test, then run itTest actions before they go live, with human approval where needed.
Permissions always stay in your control — you can scope access and require human approval before any sensitive action.
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FAQ
Does Alpaca cover crypto as well as stocks?
Yes — Alpaca supports both stock and crypto positions, quotes, and historical data.