alva

Alva Skills

Turn your AI agent into Alva Agent — research market theses with live financial context, build or remix Playbooks, set alerts, connect accounts, and backtest strategies on Alva Cloud.

Quick Start

1. Install

Claude Code

npx skills add https://github.com/alva-ai/skills

OpenClaw

clawhub install alva

Or manually copy the skill directory:

cp -r skills/alva ~/.openclaw/skills/alva

Other Agents

This skill uses the AgentSkills format. Any agent that supports SKILL.md can load it by pointing to the skills/alva/ directory.

2. Configure

Get an API key at alva.ai, then add it to your agent's environment:

Claude Code

// ~/.claude/settings.json
{
  "env": {
    "ALVA_API_KEY": "your_api_key"
  }
}

OpenClaw

// openclaw.json
{
  "skills": {
    "entries": {
      "alva": {
        "enabled": true,
        "env": { "ALVA_API_KEY": "your_api_key" }
      }
    }
  }
}

Auto-Update

The Alva skill automatically checks for updates on first use each session. If a newer version is available, your agent will display a notification:

Alva skill update available.
  Installed: v1.0.0
  Latest:    v1.2.0
Update with one of:
  npx skills update
  clawhub update alva
  git clone https://github.com/alva-ai/skills ./tmp/alva-skills && cp -r ./tmp/alva-skills/skills/alva/* "<skill-dir>/" && rm -rf ./tmp/alva-skills

The check is silent when your skill is up to date. It runs at most once every 8 hours and fails gracefully offline.

3. Try It

Start with a simple prompt:

Explain why NVDA moved last week and what changed in semis

That's it. Your agent can now answer market questions, build or remix live Playbooks, set alerts, and work with connected accounts on Alva. By default, the skill builds live Playbooks unless you explicitly ask for a static snapshot. When you explicitly ask for user-callable functions, interactive Playbooks register them through the functions CLI and invoke them through the PBSV + UDF runtime.

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Example Prompts

Use Case	Example Prompt
Ask Market Questions	"Explain why NVDA moved last week and what changed in semis."
Set Alerts	"Create a weekday 8:30am ET alert for SPY, QQQ, NVDA, MSFT, and TSLA meaningful changes."
Build Playbooks	"Build a Playbook tracking AAPL with price charts, analyst targets, and insider trades."
Discover & Remix Playbooks	"Find a semiconductor Playbook tracking AI infrastructure and subscribe me to its alerts."
Backtest Strategies	"Backtest an RSI mean-reversion strategy on BTC with daily rebalancing."
Connect Accounts & Trading	"Show my connected portfolio holdings and summarize recent activity."
Interactive Playbook Tools	"Register a Playbook UDF and expose it through a Run analysis button for the selected ticker."

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Platform Capabilities

Data — 250+ Financial Skills

Unified access to crypto, equities, ETFs, macro, on-chain, and social data through built-in skills:

Category	Highlights
Crypto	Spot & futures OHLCV, funding rates, open interest, long/short ratios, exchange flows, DeFi metrics
Equities	Fundamentals (income, balance sheet, cash flow), analyst estimates, price targets, insider & senator trades
Macro	CPI, GDP, unemployment, fed funds rate, Treasury rates, VIX, consumer sentiment
On-Chain	MVRV, SOPR, NUPL, whale ratio, exchange inflow/outflow
Social & News	Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, podcasts, news feeds, web search
Technical	50+ indicator calculations — RSI, MACD, Bollinger, ATR, VWAP, Ichimoku, and more

For unstructured content, use feed_widgets to subscribe to specific accounts or channels, and unified_search to discover content about a topic.

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