By name: alice
description: >
Research & data on your shell PATH via the alice CLI — THIS WORKBENCH's
read surfaces: the collected-RSS archive (alice rss), cross-asset symbol
search (alice market search → barIds), and K-line quant analysis
(alice analysis). Use for: "grep the collected feeds for the Fed", "find
the barId for AAPL", "compute RSI on this chart". Output is JSON; discover
every flag with alice --help / alice <group> <verb> --help — do NOT
guess. (Low-frequency market data — fundamentals, macro series, calendars,
boards — is the separate traderhub CLI; the quant scripting manual is the
alice-analysis skill.)
Research & data — alice
alice is OpenAlice's read surface on your PATH. Output is JSON on stdout
(pipe it: alice market search --query AAPL | jq '.results[0]'); a non-zero
exit means it failed, with the reason on stderr.
Discover, don't guess
alice --help # the groups: rss, market, analysis, think
alice <group> <verb> --help # a verb's flags (which are required)
Workbench research
Find a symbol (returns barIds — the operational handle for charts/quant):
alice market search --query "apple"
(Fundamentals, ratios, calendars and macro series live on traderhub —
e.g. traderhub equity profile --symbol AAPL.)
Search the collected-RSS archive, then read one article by its stable id
(the id is stable — you do not need to repeat --lookback to read it):
alice rss grep --pattern "interest rate" --lookback 2d
alice rss read --id <id-from-the-results>
Metadata filters (--meta is repeatable):
alice rss grep --pattern BTC --meta source=coindesk --meta category=crypto
Know what rss is: an archive of articles Alice's collector pulled from the
user's subscribed feeds — coverage is exactly the feed list, nothing more.
It is NOT a general news search. Empty results mean "not in the subscribed
feeds", not "nothing happened" — so don't stop at "nothing found." For news
beyond the feeds (frontpages, breaking, a specific outlet, social chatter),
that's what opencli reaches (the opencli-reader skill, when this workspace
has it — it'll ask to install if needed). Say what's missing rather than
quietly returning thin.
Technical / quantitative analysis lives in its own surface — alice analysis search-bars (find a K-line barId) then alice analysis quant (compute). It's a
small scripting language with a full function catalog, multi-timeframe panels,
and source selection. See the alice-analysis skill for the manual; don't
hand-roll indicators here.