Canli Paper Trading runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 38 installs a week from npm. Last commit 24 Oct 2026.
Agent trading on your Alpaca paper account behind pre-trade checks and confirmation tokens.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Canli Paper Trading every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add canli-paper-trading-mcp -e 'ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID=<ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID>' -e 'ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY=<ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY>' -- npx -y canli-paper-trading-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"canli-paper-trading-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"canli-paper-trading-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID": "<ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID>",
"ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.canli-paper-trading-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "canli-paper-trading-mcp"]
env = { ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID = "<ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID>", ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY = "<ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"canli-paper-trading-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"canli-paper-trading-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID": "<ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID>",
"ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"canli-paper-trading-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"canli-paper-trading-mcp"
],
"env": {
"ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID": "<ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID>",
"ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY": "<ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own values in place of
<ALPACA_PAPER_KEY_ID> (Your Alpaca paper API key id (starts with PK)), <ALPACA_PAPER_SECRET_KEY> (Your Alpaca paper API secret key).
The author’s registry entry marks them as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
CANLI_HOME (Directory with limits.json, KILL and the order log; default ~/.canli).
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