Alpaca MCP

Name: Alpaca MCP
Author: cesarvarela

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Exposes Alpaca market data and brokerage APIs as tools, including stock bars, assets, market days and news.

Setup

Choose your client, copy the config, then fill in any required environment variables.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

claude mcp add alpaca-cesarvarela --env ALPACA_ENDPOINT='<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>' --env ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT='<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>' --env ALPACA_API_KEY='<ALPACA_API_KEY>' --env ALPACA_SECRET_KEY='<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>' -- npx -y alpaca-mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.alpaca-cesarvarela]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "alpaca-mcp"]
env = { ALPACA_ENDPOINT = "<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>", ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT = "<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>", ALPACA_API_KEY = "<ALPACA_API_KEY>", ALPACA_SECRET_KEY = "<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>" }

# codex mcp add alpaca-cesarvarela --env ALPACA_ENDPOINT='<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>' --env ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT='<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>' --env ALPACA_API_KEY='<ALPACA_API_KEY>' --env ALPACA_SECRET_KEY='<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>' -- npx -y alpaca-mcp

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alpaca-cesarvarela": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alpaca-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPACA_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_API_KEY": "<ALPACA_API_KEY>",
        "ALPACA_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "alpaca-cesarvarela": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alpaca-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPACA_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_API_KEY": "<ALPACA_API_KEY>",
        "ALPACA_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.gemini/settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alpaca-cesarvarela": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alpaca-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPACA_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_API_KEY": "<ALPACA_API_KEY>",
        "ALPACA_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alpaca-cesarvarela": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alpaca-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPACA_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_API_KEY": "<ALPACA_API_KEY>",
        "ALPACA_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.trae/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alpaca-cesarvarela": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alpaca-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPACA_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT": "<ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT>",
        "ALPACA_API_KEY": "<ALPACA_API_KEY>",
        "ALPACA_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_SECRET_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

ALPACA_ENDPOINT
ALPACA_BROKER_ENDPOINT
ALPACA_API_KEY
ALPACA_SECRET_KEY

Replace the placeholders with your own credentials and keep them out of version control.

Setup

Environment variables

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