alpaca-trading-mcp

CRITICAL E005: Suspicious download URL detected in skill instructions.

• Suspicious download URL detected (high risk: 0.70). Most links point to legitimate Alpaca and MCP documentation/portal domains (low risk), but the explicit instruction to curl and pipe a remote shell script (https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh) is a high‑risk pattern — running unreviewed remote .sh installers can distribute malware.

MEDIUM W011: Third-party content exposure detected (indirect prompt injection risk).

• Third-party content exposure detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill explicitly exposes the agent to third-party news/articles via the Alpaca "News & Corporate Actions" features (tools get_news / get_crypto_news) which fetch public news content that the assistant is expected to read and could materially influence trading actions.

MEDIUM W012: Unverifiable external dependency detected (runtime URL that controls agent).

• Potentially malicious external URL detected (high risk: 0.80). The skill's installation step runs a remote installer via curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh, which fetches and directly executes remote code and is required for the skill to run.

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

• Direct money access detected (high risk: 1.00). The skill is explicitly a trading integration for Alpaca with direct tools for placing and managing financial transactions. It documents specific trading operations (place market/limit/stop/trailing-stop orders), options trading (search contracts, post_orders for options including multi-leg orders), portfolio and position management (get_positions, delete_positions_by_symbol_or_asset_id to close positions), batch order placement, and an explicit env var to switch from paper to live trading (ALPACA_PAPER_TRADE=false). Tool names like post_orders, delete_positions_by_symbol_or_asset_id, and account credential requirements (ALPACA_API_KEY / ALPACA_SECRET_KEY) show this skill is purpose-built to execute trades and move financial assets, not a generic interface. Therefore it grants Direct Financial Execution Authority.