Robinhood CLI
Consolidation and verification report
Trading at the speed of inference.
made in the name of equity (pun intended)
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An unofficial Robinhood API map, CLI, and MCP server for operating a real Robinhood account from a terminal or an agent. It covers brokerage/account routes, options chains and strategies, recurring investments, transfers, dividends, watchlists, stock detail pages, and official Robinhood Crypto API signing/execution.
This repo is not the official Robinhood agent sandbox.
This is what agentic account control should feel like: one typed management plane for the Robinhood account you already own, connecting research, planning, execution, evidence, and review without pretending the browser is the product.
robinhood please hire me this is what love for the game produces.
Robinhood shipped an in-app "Dividend tracker" on 2026-06-16 — four days after this repo's
dividendsengine (2026-06-12, commit08bb870). Building in the open means the commit history is the receipt.
Quickstart · Coverage · Safety · CLI + MCP · Docs · Roadmap
⚠️ DISCLAIMER
This is an independent, unofficial project. It is NOT affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by Robinhood Markets, Inc.
- Not financial advice. Nothing in this tool — including strategy documentation, tax discussions, income calculations, risk metrics, or roll plans — constitutes investment, tax, or legal advice. All trading decisions are yours alone. Consult a qualified professional for your specific situation.
- Real money, real risk. This tool can place real trades on your real Robinhood account. You can lose money — potentially more than your initial investment (options involve leverage, assignment risk, and unlimited loss on uncovered positions). Only use it with an account you own and with full understanding of the risks.
- No warranty. This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, express or implied. See the LICENSE file.
- Unofficial API access. This tool accesses Robinhood's private web API using your browser session token. Robinhood's Terms of Service may prohibit automated or non-browser access. Use at your own risk.
- Use your own account, at your own risk.
It drives the account you already have, across the browser-backed brokerage API surface, with reads live by default and every write behind a dry-run/live-write gate.
git clone https://github.com/zaydiscold/robinhood-cli-mcp-api.git
cd robinhood-cli-mcp-api
pnpm install && pnpm build
node cli/dist/index.js --help
Commands built around the task
The CLI is the primary interface. The optional MCP adapter calls the same core operations. A normal npm installation stores operator data under ~/.config/robinhood-cli (Windows uses %APPDATA%); ROBINHOOD_DATA_DIR and ROBINHOOD_ENV_PATH select explicit locations. Source checkouts retain their repository-local layout.
What This Includes
This is a pretty damn American piece of software: local control, account-owner agency, dry-run rights, and a command surface that lets people, scripts, and agents work the same Robinhood account without pretending the browser is the product.
How it fits together — the agentic loop
It's not a pile of commands; it's one loop an agent runs, with memory and a research stack:
boot (read the operating-intelligence KB → memory → doctrine)
→ research a thesis (signal sourcing: X/Reddit pulse → news/midlands → institutional outlook → academic math)
→ read the account truthfully (accounts + portfolio P&L + the buying-power family — overnight/options BP, not the headline)
→ plan the order (options strategy-quote / roll-plan / contract resolution → exact dry-run body)
→ gate it (dry-run by default; live only with the ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 switch + echoed account/side/qty/price)
→ execute (one engine; pending-order dedup, ref_id idempotency, 429-retry, min-tick, collar guards)
→ verify it happened (order history is the only proof — not the UI, not a 201 alone; `order-status` resolves the ticker)
→ log it (trading-log.md: what + intent + the strategy thread / "what we're rolling from")
→ update memory (ball-knowledge.md) → the thread continues next session
The layers an agent reads to do that: SKILL.md (the lean, portable skill entry point — trigger + 80/20 + the operating loop + intent routing) → knowledge/ (per-topic reasoning modules) → docs/agent-operating-intelligence-2026-06-04.md (the boot-smart KB: cardinal rule, account/order/signal decision frameworks, failure→fix tree) → the memory files → the research docs (docs/strategy-deep-dive-*, institutional-outlook-*, tax-aware-options-strategies, options-strategies-knowledge-base). The in-repo AGENTS.md (developer/maintainer runbook) covers build/test, the shared-engine invariant, and route-map editing; CLAUDE.md symlinks to SKILL.md (the skill entry point). Everything is engine-backed (cli/src/lib.ts) and env-gated.
For maintainers and agents that need the system map, docs/cli-mcp-architecture.md explains the request flow, why CLI and MCP share one engine, where route-map edits take effect, and the current improvement backlog.
Coverage
- Accounts — multiple accounts including retirement / Roth, balances, identity, settings.
account-pulseadds a privacy-normalized all-account health view: options buying power, recent-order counts/failures, options expiration settings, and optional Ceres futures position/cost-basis counts (Ceres is not mislabeled as universal brokerage P&L). - Positions — equity holdings, cost basis, day-trade counters.
- Options — chains, Greeks, multi-leg spreads, rolling, and selling.
- Performance — windowed returns: YTD, 1w, 1m, 1y, 5y, and all-time.
- Money movement — transfers, deposits, withdrawals, linked accounts.
- Dividends income engine —
dividends: all-time/YTD/last-12-months totals in dollars, per-symbol cadence detection (weekly through annual, from the median payable-date gap), upcoming payouts, and projected $/day · $/week · $/month · $/quarter · $/year computed from current holdings only — a sold payer never inflates the forecast. The math lives in the engine, not in agent arithmetic. - Combined income engine —
income: dividends + net options/wheel premium in one view — a 12-month breakdown that reconciles to the TTM headline, average over months actually covered (not a blind /12), and a forward run-rate at $/day → $/yr. Premium counts selling income only (short puts/calls, covered calls, credit spreads/condors, closes/rolls) and nets the long wings — directional long-option and debit-spread trades are excluded. Robinhood's new in-app tracker is dividends-only; this counts both halves. - Documents + the tax one-shot —
documents list/documents download: account statements, trade confirms, and every tax form across all accounts.documents download --type 1099 --year 2025pulls every 1099 — brokerage, crypto, and Roth — for tax year 2025 into the git-crypt-encryptedlocal/documents/tree in one command (type is prefix-matched; tax-form years are real tax years, so a 1099 issued Feb 2026 files under 2025). - Orders — equity and options order history, status (single-order lookup with the instrument UUID resolved to a real ticker), placement, and cancellation — with pending-duplicate dedup and
ref_ididempotency on every send. - Portfolio P&L —
portfolio(aliasespnl/snapshot): one call → per-account day Δ + after-hours Δ + per-account buying power, drivers rolled up by underlying in dollars across all accounts, with a reconciliation line.
Operator-maintained files (fill these out — the agent reads them)
The agent's cross-session brain is local, gitignored Markdown in the operator data directory (the repo root for source checkouts). Empty examples live in templates/operator/. Keep personal entries local:
ball-knowledge.md— market beliefs, themes, tickers, and source leads (the investing-memory ledger).trading-log.md— execution + intent history: what was done and why, with the strategy thread (auto JSONL mirror inlocal/).trade-notes.md— film-study notes attached to trades —reviewjoins them onto round trips by ref (new).hotlist.md— ticker watchlist + theses —hotlistquotes every line live (new).local/— personal cross-machine workspace tracked as git-crypt ciphertext. Unlock it with the shared key before reading or editing; filenames and sizes remain public. Seedocs/local-encryption.md.
Agent Examples
The MCP server is meant for requests like:
- "Show my option positions ranked by dollar P&L, with the account each contract lives in."
- "Why am I down today — which names, in dollars, across all my accounts?"
- "Where am I in the wheel on F — and what's the next leg?" (reads your shares + short puts/calls, classifies the stage, hands back the exact dry-run command — works as pure discussion even with no position)
- "List all recurring investments and tell me which ones are paused."
- "Quote a DRAM call credit spread, show bid/ask/Greeks, and build the dry-run order body."
- "Dry-run a $50 buy of VOO in my Roth, then place it live." (the live send dedups against pending orders and carries a
ref_id, so an agent retry can't double-fire) - "Check the status of my last order." (comes back with the real ticker, not an instrument UUID)
- "Open the DRAM stock profile and include market cap, AUM, P/E, 52-week range, borrow rate, and account-scoped buying power."
- "Build a cash-account staged roll plan: sell the current call today, then open the replacement no earlier than the next business day after fresh settled-cash and quote checks."
Note: this is an independent, unofficial project — not affiliated with or endorsed by Robinhood. Use your own account, at your own risk.
Feature showcase
The one-off features that make this more than an API wrapper:
Wheel engine + version scrape + recipes. wheel [symbol] (CLI) and robinhood_wheel (MCP — live truth: tools/list) read your actual shares + short puts/calls, classify your wheel stage (CSP open, shares uncovered, covered call on, and the rest), flag undercovered short calls as the naked exposure they are, and hand back the literal next-leg dry-run command. Works as pure discussion with no position on. pnpm version:refresh uses the CDP debug browser to scrape the live x-robinhood-web-app-version header off the login page (no RH login needed) and writes it to .env, so the equity-order version gate can't rot. recipes "<intent>" turns free text into the one command that answers it.
The kosher roll. On a cash account, sale proceeds settle T+1, so a same-day roll is not "risky," it is structurally impossible without a good-faith violation. options roll-plan --cash-account stages it the only legal way: close today, open the replacement next business day after fresh settled-cash and quote checks. A broker would have just told you no.
Honest portfolio attribution, in dollars. portfolio answers "why am I down" with per-account day and after-hours deltas plus drivers rolled up by underlying in dollars across every account. It is session-coherent: between close and the next open, the option feeds roll their previous-close a session ahead of the equity feeds, and the engine detects the mismatch from the feeds' own previous_close_date stamps and re-anchors option drivers via batch daily historicals instead of attributing $0. The output tells you exactly which session window it is measuring.
Every account, every time. Robinhood's bulk accounts endpoints under-report (live: 2 of 5 owned accounts). The tooling enumerates the full transfer graph, falls back to per-account detail reads for the ones the bulk endpoints omit, and ranks option positions in dollars with the account each contract lives in. No truncated balances, no percent leaderboards hiding a $1,600 position behind a $6 one.
The tax-season one-shot. documents download --type 1099 --year 2025 walks the cursor-paginated documents API and pulls every 1099 — brokerage, crypto, and Roth retirement — for tax year 2025 into local/documents/ in one command, each file named by year, form, account, and date. The year math is done for you: a 1099 issued in February 2026 covers tax year 2025, and the engine files it that way instead of trusting the issue date. The same surface powers dividends, which detects each payer's cadence in-engine and projects income in dollars per month, quarter, and year from current holdings only, and margin, which answers "am I borrowing, how much, at what rate, billed when" in one read.
A knowledge library for agents. knowledge/ holds per-topic operating modules (wheel, rolling, multi-leg, Greeks, tax, tax-loss harvesting, dividend investing, position building, market mechanics, accounts, signals, execution safety) plus knowledge/playbooks/broker-call.md: the tested end-to-end "reimagined broker phone call" pipeline, from screenshot to classified strategy to dry-run quote to confirmation contract to gated send to order-history evidence to trading log. SKILL.md routes, knowledge/ teaches, docs/ proves.
Context: Robinhood's own agentic-trading beta is equity-only inside a sandboxed, separately funded wallet. This repo runs the full surface (multi-leg options, rolls, settings, all owned accounts) on the account you already have, dry-run by default, env-gated for anything live.
API Map and Route Coverage
The route map is the core artifact:
- OpenAPI 3.1 — unified and per-surface specs.
- Per-endpoint Markdown — one file per route under
api-map/markdown/, each markedMutation: yes/no, includingtrading-buy-sell-write.mdfor buy/sell + options. - curl — copy-paste examples for every route.
endpoints, we got em all
Design note: method-aware route resolution
This CLI selects routes by URL and HTTP method, so a single endpoint can carry both a safe read and a gated write (e.g. GET vs PATCH on recurring_schedules/{id}/) and each resolves to the correct risk level. That's what lets the same URL expose a free read and a env-gated write without one leaking into the other. A URL-keyed resolver (route looked up by path alone) can't do this safely — a shared GET+write entry would either bypass the write gate or block the read — so it must split writes onto distinct, write-only URLs instead. The method-aware design is why the write surface here can be rich without weakening the safety gate.
Getting started
Requirements
- Node.js 20.19+ and pnpm (
npm i -g pnpm). - A Robinhood account you own, logged in via the Robinhood web app in a Chromium-based browser (Chrome/Brave/Edge) on the same machine — that's where auth is read from.
1. Install & build
git clone https://github.com/zaydiscold/robinhood-cli-mcp-api.git
cd robinhood-cli-mcp-api
pnpm install
pnpm build # builds the CLI and copies the API map into dist (see "rebuild" note below)
2. Authenticate (browser-free, self-healing)
The CLI authenticates with your existing Robinhood web session — no separate login, no OAuth app, no password stored.
- It reads the freshest bearer token straight from your browser's on-disk storage and writes it to a gitignored
.envasROBINHOOD_BROKERAGE_TOKEN. - On a cold start (no token) or any
401, it auto-refreshes once and retries. Force a refresh anytime:
pnpm auth:refresh
Make sure you're logged into Robinhood in your browser first. The token never leaves your machine and is never committed.
3. Run the CLI
# Link the binary (or call via: node cli/dist/index.js <args>)
pnpm --filter @zaydiscold/robinhood-cli cli -- --help
robinhood-cli api-map summary --json # what the map covers
robinhood-cli api-map account-context # browser-tested account_number routing behavior
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategies # options payoff/Greek strategy catalog
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategy-plan iron-condor --json
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategy-plan naked-short-put --json
robinhood-cli recurring list # recurring buys + state
robinhood-cli quote MRVL NVDA AAPL # live quotes for one+ symbols
robinhood-cli portfolio # day + after-hours P&L in dollars, by underlying, all accounts
robinhood-cli portfolio --after-hours # "what's nuking me after hours"
robinhood-cli recipes "after hours" # free-text intent → the one command to run
robinhood-cli rewards --json # privacy-safe stock-reward summary
robinhood-cli inbox-summary --json # aggregate inbox state; no messages/names
robinhood-cli ipo-access list --json # IPO Access offering list + eligibility
robinhood-cli ipo-access show JMKE --json # one IPO offering by symbol
robinhood-cli ipo-access plan-request JMKE --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --json # read-only request readiness; never submits
robinhood-cli tax-lots list HPE --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --json # live open-lot inventory
robinhood-cli tax-lots plan-sell HPE --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --lot <OPEN_LOT_ID>:1 --json # exact-ID dry run
robinhood-cli sell -s NBIL --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --shares 1 --price 20.55 --market-hours overnight --json # 24-hour dry run
robinhood-cli sweep-interest --json # current cash-sweep APY + evidence source/fallback
robinhood-cli gold-fees --limit 20 --json # Gold subscription-fee history
robinhood-cli buying-power # per-account BP + margin health
robinhood-cli buy -s AAPL -a <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> -m 25 # DRY-RUN by default (deduped, ref_id idempotent)
robinhood-cli order-status -i <ORDER_ID> # single order — real ticker, state, fills
robinhood-cli wheel F # Wheel stage + next leg from account evidence
robinhood-cli positions # equity holdings ranked by return
robinhood-cli positions --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> # per-account equity positions
robinhood-cli options positions # rank open options by dollar P&L
robinhood-cli options chain MRVL --width 6 # live chain around the money
robinhood-cli options events --limit 25 # canonical events path; `options-events` remains an alias
robinhood-cli options history <CONTRACT_UUID> --json # contract OHLC/volume points (bounded; default 100)
robinhood-cli options chain-stats NVDA --json # ATM IV + expected move per expiration
robinhood-cli options strategy-quote call-credit-spread --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --symbol DRAM --expiration 2026-12-18 --leg short_call=80 --leg long_call=85 --pricing-mode safe-sell-probe --json
robinhood-cli options roll-plan --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --symbol DRAM --type call --close-expiration 2026-06-26 --close-strike 70 --open-expiration 2026-12-18 --open-strike 80 --cash-account --json
robinhood-cli api-map options-contract-links --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --symbol DRAM --expiration 2026-12-18 --type call --side buy --strike 80 --json
robinhood-cli stock profile DRAM --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --json
robinhood-cli watchlist list # your custom watchlists + sizes
robinhood-cli watchlist add "Homie index" NVDA AMAT # add tickers (env-gated, dry-run by default)
robinhood-cli watchlist create "Og handle fund" # make a new list (env-gated)
robinhood-cli brokerage routes --category orders # browse mapped routes
robinhood-cli brokerage plan "https://api.robinhood.com/accounts/{0}/" --param 0=ACCOUNT_ID --json
Command tour — what answers what
One line per question. All reads are live and free; the order/settings commands are dry-run until the ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 switch is set.
* CHECK MY MATH — Tools marked with an asterisk involve financial calculations (Greeks, income aggregation, risk metrics, roll logic). They have regression tests and selected commands have been walked against live inputs; they have not been independently reconciled across every broker statement, spreadsheet, account class, or market state. Treat projections and scenarios as estimates and verify them before real-money decisions. See the
capability evidence ledger.
Tax lots, IPO Access, and 24-hour orders: capability truth
These are separate lanes. “Mapped,” “live-read,” “dry-run planned,” and “live-submittable” are not synonyms:
Authoritative contracts: docs/tax-lot-intelligence-and-exact-lot-selling.md and docs/ipo-access-and-24-hour-contract-map-2026-08-08.md.
4. Reads vs. writes — the safety model
Read-capable commands send live requests when their required inputs/auth are present; local, mapped, and plan-only commands do not. See the capability evidence ledger for each family. Every write defaults to a dry-run ("test mode") and only sends when the ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 environment variable is set — the single master switch (no per-call --live-write needed; --dry-run still previews even when it's on). One deliberate opt-in, or nothing leaves the machine:
# Dry-run (default): builds the request, prints the plan, sends nothing
robinhood-cli brokerage execute "https://api.robinhood.com/orders/" \
--method POST --body-json '{...}'
# Live: set the ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 switch (the single gate; --live-write is optional)
ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 robinhood-cli brokerage execute \
"https://api.robinhood.com/orders/" --method POST --body-json '{...}'
# First-class commands carry the same gate, e.g. recurring investments:
ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 robinhood-cli recurring resume --all
# First-class orders: dry-run by default; the live send dedups against pending
# same-side orders (5-min window) and carries a ref_id so a retry can't double-fire.
robinhood-cli buy -s AAPL -a <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> -m 25 # dry-run
ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 robinhood-cli buy -s AAPL -a <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> -m 25
Caveats — read once before relying on it
- Unofficial surface. The brokerage routes are mapped from the web app, not a published API — Robinhood can rotate or rename any of them without notice. The route map is dated and test-enforced for a reason; trust live reads over memory.
- Auth is a browser-session token. It comes from your logged-in web session, lives in a gitignored
.env, and expires like any session. The engine self-heals once on a401; after that it'spnpm auth:refresh(and being logged into Robinhood in your browser). - OTC and fractional limits. OTC/ADR names reject market and dollar-notional orders — buy AND sell are both supported, but only as whole shares with a marketable limit (the engine auto-limits: buy at the ask, sell at the bid). "$5 of <OTC ticker>" is impossible in either direction, and the engine will say so rather than malform the order.
- Options don't quote like equities outside regular hours. Equity/ETF options trade 9:30–4:00 ET, while some index/ETF options can run past the bell. A missing pre-market option mark is the market, not a bug; for after-hours P&L, trust the
portfoliocommand's account-level top line and whatever extended marks are actually present. - The order-evidence rule. An order happened only if order history says so (or a position/cash change shows it). A
201, a UI screen, or an agent log is not proof —order-statusandhistoryare.
5. Use it from an AI agent (MCP server)
The MCP server exposes the same engine as tools for Claude, Cursor, or any Model Context Protocol client:
pnpm --filter @zaydiscold/robinhood-cli-mcp build
# Register with Claude Code (CLI):
claude mcp add robinhood-cli -s user -- node /absolute/path/to/robinhood-cli-mcp-api/mcp/dist/server.js
# Or run it directly:
node mcp/dist/server.js
MCP tools surface as mcp__robinhood-cli__* and share the CLI's engine wholesale — nothing forks:
- Same gates — identical auth, route map, and write gates as the CLI.
- Same order engine —
robinhood_buy/_sell/_cancel/_order_status/_buying_powercall the exact shared functions the CLI commands do, so dedup,ref_ididempotency, and the OTC guard behave identically on both surfaces. They can't drift. - Agent-native —
robinhood_wheelreturns an evidence-based Wheel stage + next leg + the exact dry-run command. - Count — trust the live
tools/list, never a hardcoded number.
6. Options analytics — positions & chains
Two read-only convenience commands that join the raw options routes (aggregate_positions, marketdata/options, instruments, chains) into one line each — the kind of thing that's six hand-built brokerage execute calls otherwise:
# Every open option position across ALL owned accounts, ranked in DOLLARS:
# per-contract value, unrealized/day $ P&L, delta shares/$, intrinsic/extrinsic,
# local option elasticity, extrinsic cost per delta-dollar, implied-move hurdle,
# gamma/theta convexity rent, and expiration break-even — with totals.
robinhood-cli options positions
robinhood-cli options positions --json
# Live option chain around the money. Defaults to the nearest expiry and calls.
robinhood-cli options chain MRVL
robinhood-cli options chain NVDA --expiration 2026-07-02 --type put --width 10 --json
$ robinhood-cli options positions # real winners' returns — sizes/account illustrative
contract acct qty entry mark value_usd pl_usd day_usd return delta
------------------ ----- --- ----- ------ --------- --------- ------- --------- -----
DRAM $50 Call 6/18 …XXXX 5 $1.30 $18.65 $9325.00 $8675.00 $225.00 +1334.6% 0.93
HPE $30 Call 9/18 …XXXX 5 $1.68 $19.00 $9500.00 $8660.00 $150.00 +1031.0% 0.88
...
TOTAL: value $18825.00 | unrealized $17335.00 | day $375.00
Best performer: DRAM $50 Call 6/18 at +1334.6%.
Both are pure reads (no write gate). --json emits structured rows for piping into a spreadsheet or an agent. The same exposureAnalytics object is included by MCP robinhood_options_holdings, robinhood_options_inspect, and robinhood_options_snapshot. See docs/options-exposure-analytics.md for formulas, the intrinsic/extrinsic read order, delta-dollar interpretation, roll audit, expected-move hurdle, convexity rent, and why a giant OTM elasticity number is not guaranteed leverage.
6.1 Options strategy planners — Greeks, spreads, quotes, and dry-run bodies
The strategy layer is separate from the live chain reader. It is a research/planning catalog for single legs, covered calls, cash-secured puts, naked short calls/puts, debit and credit spreads, straddles, strangles, butterflies, iron condors, and calendar rolls. Each strategy records the leg roles, payoff bounds, rough Greek posture, Robinhood lookup steps, and an options/orders/ body template.
The companion SKILL.md teaches an agent how to drive the implemented surfaces: a when-to-use-what playbook, a worked iron-condor build, account-aware capability rules, the order/cancel workflow, the Greeks-as-a-math-function model, and a research methodology for extending a brokerage that ships no official API. Historical receipts do not guarantee a current mutation; use the capability evidence ledger and require a durable order ID plus reconciliation for each live test.
# Browse the strategy catalog.
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategies
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategies --defined-risk
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategies --aggressiveness aggressive --json
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategy-plan short-strangle --json
# Resolve exact legs, read live bid/ask/mark/Greeks, quote the package when
# Robinhood returns a strategy quote, and build a dry-run body with a limit price.
robinhood-cli options strategy-quote call-credit-spread \
--account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> \
--symbol DRAM \
--expiration 2026-12-18 \
--leg short_call=80 \
--leg long_call=85 \
--pricing-mode safe-sell-probe \
--json
# Roll a call by closing the old leg and opening a later-dated replacement.
robinhood-cli options strategy-quote call-calendar-roll \
--account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> \
--symbol DRAM \
--expiration 2026-06-26 \
--leg close_call=70 \
--leg open_call=80 \
--param close_call_expiration=2026-06-26 \
--param open_call_expiration=2026-12-18 \
--pricing-mode mid \
--json
# Cash-account staged roll: close leg now, open leg no earlier than the next
# business day after rechecking settled cash and fresh quotes.
robinhood-cli options roll-plan \
--account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> \
--symbol DRAM \
--type call \
--close-expiration 2026-06-26 \
--close-strike 70 \
--open-expiration 2026-12-18 \
--open-strike 80 \
--cash-account \
--json
# Build a dry-run body template. This does not send an order.
robinhood-cli api-map options-strategy-plan call-credit-spread \
--param account_number=<ACCOUNT_NUMBER> \
--param symbol=XBI \
--param chain_id=<CHAIN_ID> \
--param expiration=2026-06-26 \
--param short_call_option_id=<SHORT_CALL_OPTION_ID> \
--param long_call_option_id=<LONG_CALL_OPTION_ID> \
--param strategy_legs=<ENCODED_STRATEGY_LEGS> \
--param strategy_ids=<SHORT_CALL_OPTION_ID>,<LONG_CALL_OPTION_ID> \
--param ratios=1,1 \
--param types=short,long \
--param limit_price=4.00 \
--param quantity=1 \
--param time_in_force=gfd \
--param ref_id=$(python3 -c "import uuid;print(uuid.uuid4())") \
--json
strategy-quote is the practical spread command: it resolves symbol -> account chain -> expiration/type instruments -> exact strikes -> marketdata/options, computes natural and mid from bid/ask by leg side, sums net Greeks with the 100-share multiplier, calls marketdata/options/strategy/quotes/ when available, then fills the dry-run options/orders/ body. It supports per-leg expirations through --param <leg_id>_expiration=<date>, which is how calendar rolls and diagonal-style roll previews are modeled. safe-sell-probe intentionally places the dry-run credit limit $200 above the natural market; it is a control/sanity mode, not a live-trading recommendation.
roll-plan is the cash-account fallback. It resolves the close leg and open leg separately, quotes each one from bid/ask/mark/Greeks, emits two dry-run single-leg order bodies, and when --cash-account is set, marks the replacement leg as not-before the next business day with required fresh checks for settled cash and live quotes.
Planner output is still a write-capable order body, so the live route remains blocked by the ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 switch. Treat aggressive or undefined-risk strategies as exact-approval only.
The detailed math references live in docs/options-greeks-strategy-research-2026-06-02.md, docs/options-quantitative-playbook-2026-06-03.md, and docs/archive/options-strategy-execution-smoke-2026-06-03.md. They cover net Greek aggregation, Black-Scholes sanity checks, payoff and breakeven formulas, aggressive-vs-non-aggressive variants, the dry-run smoke suite, and the machine-readable reviewContract emitted by options-strategy-plan. Use them when translating loose requests like "sell a call" or "covered short put" into a precise dry-run order body.
6.2 Browser account context — account_number routing
The browser pass found that some Robinhood web routes propagate ?account_number=... into API calls and some ignore it. The CLI exposes that as a separate workflow map:
robinhood-cli api-map account-context
robinhood-cli api-map account-context --behavior propagates
robinhood-cli api-map account-url stock-detail-order-ticket \
--account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> \
--symbol XBI \
--instrument-id <INSTRUMENT_UUID>
Use this for navigation and endpoint discovery. For automation, prefer direct API routes with explicit account fields over trusting a web URL.
Security-research details live in docs/security-research-account-number-context-routing-2026-06-03.md. It records the account-number dropdown/routing pattern, full-scope retest matrix, and the boundary between account-context evidence and any real IDOR claim.
6.3 Exact options contract navigation
Use this when you need to plan one specific contract by account, symbol, expiration, strike, call/put, and buy/sell side:
robinhood-cli api-map options-contract-plan \
--account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> \
--symbol XBI \
--expiration 2026-06-26 \
--type call \
--side buy \
--strike 127 \
--json
For live API resolution plus a copy-paste navigation/webhook handoff bundle:
robinhood-cli api-map options-contract-links \
--account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> \
--symbol DRAM \
--expiration 2026-12-18 \
--type call \
--side buy \
--strike 80 \
--json
The planner is API-first. It emits the tested web account shell, candidate web
query/fragment URLs for manual browser probes, deterministic API lookup steps,
and a dry-run single-leg options/orders/ handoff template. The link command
does the live read and adds the resolved chain_id, exact
option_instrument_id, option instrument URL, bid/ask/mark/last, Greeks,
strategy quote URL, account-scoped web shell, chain-id app/web handoff links,
and safe pricing controls.
Treat the API lookup as the source of truth: resolve chain_id, filter
options/instruments/ by expiration/type/strike, quote the resulting
option_instrument_id, then build the order body.
No universal unopened-contract URL is claimed. Expiration, strike, side, and
type URL params are probe candidates until validated in a logged-in browser pass
across multiple symbols and expirations. The chain_id app deeplink reliably
opens the right underlying's chain (device-verified); exact-contract selection
still comes from the API-resolved option_instrument_id.
Operational details live in
docs/options-contract-navigation-2026-06-03.md
and the machine-readable workflow lives in
api-map/options-contract-navigation-workflows-2026-06-03.json.
6.4 Stock page profile reads
The stock page is mapped as a first-class read:
robinhood-cli stock profile DRAM --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> --json
It joins the same surfaces the browser page uses: instruments/?symbol=,
marketdata/quotes/?bounds=24_5&include_bbo_source=true,
marketdata/fundamentals/{id}/?bounds=trading&include_inactive=true,
instruments/{id}/shorting/, and optional account-scoped buying-power and
margin-requirement reads. The output includes description, market cap/AUM,
P/E, P/B, 52-week range, volume, bid/ask, options chain id, borrow rate, and
account context when supplied.
The MCP server exposes the same join as robinhood_stock_profile.
6.5 Account settings and account-page controls
Account-page surfaces are mapped with an explicit read/write boundary:
robinhood-cli brokerage routes --query "recurring_schedules" --json
robinhood-cli brokerage routes --query "corp_actions/drip/enrollment" --json
robinhood-cli brokerage routes --query "ach/transfers" --json
robinhood-cli brokerage routes --query "margin" --json
Current state:
- Recurring investments are first-class:
recurring list / pause / resume / create / edit / end(create + edit body shapes verified live; all env-gated). - A first-class
settingsgroup ships env-gated writes for the surfaces whose bodies were captured + verified: DRIP (account-wide + per-stock), trade-on-expiration, PDT protection, stock lending, and cash-sweep unenroll.settings showreads them all. (Cash-sweep enroll needs the agreement-sign flow and stays manual; see the capability map.) - Funding, deposits, withdrawals, futures, event contracts, account-type, and margin settings that haven't had a fresh body capture remain route-map/browser-observed — reads are callable; live mutations stay dry-run until the route/body is captured and approved. The capability map marks each as verified-live vs. research.
See docs/account-settings-capability-map-2026-06-03.md
and api-map/account-settings-capability-map-2026-06-03.json.
7. More read commands — quote, positions, watchlists
The same one-line ergonomics for everyday lookups. All read-only; all print per-share prices and percentages, never a summed account total (so output stays safe to screenshot):
# Live quotes for one or more symbols (last, day %, bid/ask).
robinhood-cli quote MRVL NVDA AAPL
# Your open equity positions, ranked by unrealized return.
robinhood-cli positions
robinhood-cli positions --sort symbol --json
# Target a specific account by account number.
robinhood-cli positions --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER> # individual brokerage
robinhood-cli positions --account <ROTH_ACCOUNT_NUMBER> # Roth IRA
# Your custom watchlists and how many symbols each holds.
robinhood-cli watchlist list
# Edit watchlists — add/remove tickers (resolved by name) or create a list.
# Writes are dry-run until the ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 switch is set, like every other write here.
robinhood-cli watchlist create "AI memory"
ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 robinhood-cli watchlist add "AI memory" MU AMAT LRCX
ROBINHOOD_ALLOW_LIVE_WRITE=1 robinhood-cli watchlist remove "AI memory" LRCX
# Option expirations for a symbol (handy before `options chain`).
robinhood-cli options expirations MRVL
$ robinhood-cli positions --account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER>
Account <ACCOUNT_NUMBER>
symbol qty avgCost last return
------ ------ ------- ------- ------
HPE 25.0000 $37.23 $56.15 +50.8%
ARM 8.0000 $331.46 $402.55 +21.4%
...
21 positions — 14 green, 7 red.
Rebuild note: the build copies
api-map/brokerage-routes.jsonintocli/dist/, and the runtime reads that copy. After editing the route map, rebuild (pnpm build) or your change is a silent no-op.
For the full agent playbook — account discovery, the gate, watchlists, recurring investments — see SKILL.md. For the in-repo developer/maintainer runbook (build/test, the shared-engine invariant, route-map editing), see AGENTS.md. For the public docs index, see docs/README.md.
Documentation
Extending it
The repo is built to grow. If an endpoint is missing:
- Add the path to the OpenAPI spec in
api-map/openapi/. - Drop a Markdown file describing it under
api-map/markdown/. - Wire a command so the CLI and MCP can drive it.
The loop is: capture, document, expose, rebuild, test.
Pattern: CLI + skill + MCP. Capture the surface once, expose it cleanly everywhere.
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