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Alpaca's Official MCP Server

mcp server for robot and automations

→ alpacahq/alpaca-mcp-server· listed on mcp_so

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Source: mcp.so · also listed on github_topic, PulseMCP

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// key findings
✅
9 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour
6 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec
✅
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
✅
Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: ALPACA_API_KEY, ALPACA_SECRET_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
🔐 secretALPACA_API_KEY"": "your_alpaca_api_key",
🔐 secretALPACA_SECRET_KEY"": "your_alpaca_secret_key"
configALPACA_PAPER_TRADE"-e", "=true",
configALPACA_TOOLSETSTool filtering Not supported env var
configDATA_API_URL
Deployment configuration, supplied by whoever hosts the server. Users are not asked for these.
deployPORT
// quality suggestions

All four hints declared on every tool

6/9 tools missing one or more hints — get_stock_bars (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint); get_stock_quotes (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint); get_stock_trades (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint), +3 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool handlers catch errors

Only 0/9 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (0%)

Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

Shell command execution

1 child_process call — runs shell commands

Prefer library functions over shell-outs. If you must shell out, ensure all inputs are properly escaped.

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// full audit trail
The findings above are the summary. The full trail, every check we ran, each deduction, the network hosts observed and the dependency advisories, goes to verified publishers, along with an alert whenever a new one lands.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.
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commit: 397cf36806689c11334d43a5e5486551c1a6ed90
code hash: f6c3b4a0609c797bf9b032f3ee6e30762f0c9201d4af6e224ecfdd8156602d96
verified: 6/16/2026, 12:25:59 PM
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