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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", "I can't find a Taiwan/CN stock — add a data vendor". 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.)

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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.)

Expand coverage with vendors. Symbol search — and the K-line sources it returns — comes from a set of data vendors; yfinance (global, always on) is the default. For a name a global vendor misses, like a CN A-share or a Taiwan stock by its native name, a local vendor closes the gap. List what's on and what each covers, then enable one — live on the next search, no restart:

alice market vendors                                    # sources, on/off, and how to use each
alice market vendor-set --vendor twse --enabled true    # Taiwan (TWSE/TPEx); `eastmoney` for CN A-shares

If a search for a non-US name comes up empty, check alice market vendors before giving up — the covering source may just be off. Each vendor's howToUse flags its quirks (e.g. twse wants 繁体 台積電, not 简体 台积电).

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.