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Alpha Vantage Market Data

Lets an agent pull stock, forex, crypto, commodity and economic data from Alpha Vantage's API.

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sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills
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Licence
MIT
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1 file

What it does

Once installed, the agent knows how to query the Alpha Vantage financial data service for stock prices, daily and intraday price history, company fundamentals like income statements, options, forex and crypto rates, commodity prices, economic indicators such as GDP and CPI, and about 50 technical indicators like RSI and MACD. It writes Python code that calls the API with your key, handles common error messages, and reminds itself to cache results because the free tier allows only about 25 requests per day. The skill does not provide investment advice; it is a way to fetch and structure market data.

Great for

  • Analysts or students who want quick historical or fundamental market data in Python
  • Developers building a finance dashboard or backtest who need a data source
  • Anyone who already has an Alpha Vantage API key and wants an agent to write the request code

Skip it if

  • Trading decisions or investment advice: the skill itself says data retrieval is not investment advice, and quotes may be delayed or end-of-day
  • High-volume data pulls on the free tier, since the 25 requests/day limit is quickly exhausted and the skill cannot get around quotas
  • Users without an API key or account, because the skill cannot run without one

Try asking

  • “Get the latest AAPL share price and the last 100 days of daily prices, then summarise the trend”
  • “Pull the most recent annual income statement and balance sheet for MSFT and compare revenue growth”
  • “Calculate the 14-day RSI for TSLA and list the dates it was above 70”
  • “Fetch US federal funds rate and CPI series from Alpha Vantage and save them as a CSV”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Alpha Vantage Market DataInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    alpha-vantage.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip alpha-vantage.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip alpha-vantage.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Store the API key in an environment variable rather than pasting it into chat or code, and check the request budget before running many queries
  • Ask the agent to cache results to a local file so repeated runs do not consume your daily quota
  • Always ask the agent to report the data timestamp and whether prices are adjusted, and to verify the response structure before using the data

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.