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alpaca guard for VS Code

io.github.evidai/alpaca-guard

Alpaca trading API with hard daily USD cap guard. Paper trading default; live opt-in.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install alpaca guard in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "alpaca-api-key",
      "description": "ALPACA_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "alpaca-secret-key",
      "description": "ALPACA_SECRET_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "alpaca-guard": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "alpaca-guard-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALPACA_API_KEY": "${input:alpaca-api-key}",
        "ALPACA_SECRET_KEY": "${input:alpaca-secret-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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