alpaca-paper-live-key-separation SKILL.md skillA
alpaca-paper-live-key-separation from himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/alpaca-paper-live-key-separation@v2.0.0Pins v2.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills
- Path
skills/alpaca-paper-live-key-separation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2.0.0, committed Sep 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 9,422 bytes
- Repository stars
- 50
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a bot connects to the Alpaca Trading API and must never cross paper keys with the live endpoint; pins the base URL per environment, checks the key prefix, probes /v2/account and requires an explicit ALLOW_LIVE_TRADING flag.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## When to Use Invoke this whenever a bot connects to the Alpaca Trading API (or any broker with distinct paper/live environments). Connecting a paper strategy to Alpaca's live endpoint (`https://api.alpaca.markets`) using live API keys — or passing live order signals into a paper endpoint — is a catastrophic operational error. Pinning the base URL per environment, inspecting the key prefix, probing `/v2/account` for tradability, and requiring an explicit `ALLOW_LIVE_TRADING` environment variable are all mandatory before any order is submitted. **The base URL is the control that actually separates the environments.** Alpaca serves paper accounts from `https://paper-api.alpaca.markets` and live accounts from `https://api.alpaca.markets`; a live account is not reachable through the paper host. Every other check in this skill is defence-in-depth layered on that pin — treat them as corroboration, never as a substitute. ## When NOT to Use …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/alpaca-paper-live-key-separation@sha256:c626055be3c17d6cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Sep 3, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v2.0.0 latest | 2026-09-03 | 8527a51 | 9,422 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0.0 | 2026-09-03 | eb7108c | 9,395 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-13 | 097e217 | 5,310 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-07 | 89d1436 | 3,920 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-07-30 | dfc60c7 | 3,918 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9422 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills · 50 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fm6elek5xv4ebbrp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=himanshuj16/algo-trading-skills/alpaca-paper-live-key-separation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c626055be3c17d6cfa55ed5f02aef7b3bcfe7ac4086087bebd5f517be9700575
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