alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli

Warn

Audited by Snyk on Aug 25, 2026

Risk Level: MEDIUM
Full Analysis

MEDIUM W009: Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).

  • Direct money access detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill is explicitly designed to construct and execute trading orders via the Alpaca CLI (e.g., "alpaca order submit", concrete example commands, cancel/replace/cancel-all/position close-all). It supports market/limit/stop order types and asset classes (equities, options, crypto) and outlines full order lifecycle and submission automation. Although it targets the paper endpoint, the primary capability is to send market/order transactions (i.e., execute trades), which qualifies as Direct Financial Execution.

MEDIUM W013: Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

  • Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions detected (high risk: 0.90). The skill instructs the agent to create and modify system-level files (a wrapper in /usr/local/bin, a crontab under /etc/cron.d, logs under /var/log, and to generate systemd/launchd service files), which change OS state and typically require elevated privileges.

Issues (2)

W009
MEDIUM

Direct money access capability detected (payment gateways, crypto, banking).

W013
MEDIUM

Attempt to modify system services in skill instructions.

Audit Metadata
Risk Level
MEDIUM
Analyzed
Aug 25, 2026, 09:24 PM
Issues
2
Security Audit — snyk — alpaca-trading-paper-trading-cli