What is Alpaca?
Alpaca is a finance & accounting tool. With OSP.net, your AI agent connects to it directly so it can act on your behalf instead of just answering questions about it.
What your OSP agent can do with Alpaca
- Real-time quotes, bars and historical market data
- Check positions, orders and account balances
- Place and manage trades (paper or live)
How to connect Alpaca
- Sign in to the Alpaca dashboard. Choose Paper Trading first to test safely, or Live Trading for a funded account — the keys are different per environment. app.alpaca.markets
- Open the API Keys panel on the right of the dashboard and click Generate New Key. Alpaca shows the secret key only once.
- Copy both the Key ID and the Secret Key, paste them here and Connect. Paper keys (PK…) trade against a simulated account; live keys (AK…) trade real money.
Security: Start with PAPER keys — they can't move real money. Switch to live keys only when you're ready to trade for real. Roll either key pair any time from the same dashboard.
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Frequently asked questions
- Can OSP.net connect to Alpaca?
- Yes. Alpaca is a native OSP.net integration — you bring your own Alpaca key or token, paste it in your dashboard, and your agent restarts live.
- What can my OSP agent do with Alpaca?
- Your agent pulls real-time and historical market data and can place trades through your Alpaca brokerage or paper account. Specifically: Real-time quotes, bars and historical market data; Check positions, orders and account balances; Place and manage trades (paper or live).
- Is Alpaca a native integration or via the gateway?
- Alpaca is a native, baked-in integration. You connect it with your own credentials, which are stored in an encrypted vault and injected only at runtime.
- Is my Alpaca data secure with OSP.net?
- Yes. Your Alpaca credentials live in an encrypted secrets vault, are injected only at container runtime, and are never written to disk in plaintext or used to train any model. Each customer runs in a fully isolated instance.