alpaca-trading-backtest
alpaca-trading-backtest is an Investment analysis & markets skill for AI agents, published by alpacahq in the alpaca-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates alpaca-trading-backtest F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Risky. This skill has patterns associated with unsafe behaviour. Read the source carefully before running it.
Execute deterministic, reproducible historical backtests from a start date, end date, and strategy concept using the Alpaca CLI plus agent-written workspace code. Use when the user wants to backtest a strategy, simulate historical trades, or return trades, diagnostics, and reproducibility artifacts.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 45 / 100
- Safety
- Risky
- GitHub stars
- 103
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 75 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- High-risk patterns
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
What the scanner flagged
- references sensitive credential env
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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