Trading_skills ib-account

Get account summary from Interactive Brokers including cash balance, buying power, and account value. Use when user asks about their account, balance, buying power, or available cash. Requires TWS or IB Gateway running locally.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/staskh/trading_skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/staskh/trading_skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/.claude/skills/ib-account" ~/.claude/skills/staskh-trading-skills-ib-account && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: .claude/skills/ib-account/SKILL.md

source content

IB Account

Fetch account summary from Interactive Brokers.

Prerequisites

User must have TWS or IB Gateway running locally with API enabled:

Paper trading: port 7497
Live trading: port 7496

Instructions

Note: If
uv
is not installed or
pyproject.toml
is not found, replace
uv run python
with
python
in all commands below.

uv run python scripts/account.py [--port PORT] [--account ACCOUNT_ID] [--all-accounts]

Arguments

```
--port
```
- IB port (default: 7496 for live trading)
```
--account
```
- Specific account ID to fetch
```
--all-accounts
```
- Fetch summaries for all managed accounts

Default behavior (no flags): fetches the first managed account only. Always use

--all-accounts

unless the user asks for a specific account.

Output

Returns JSON with:

```
connected
```
- Whether connection succeeded
```
accounts
```
- List of account summaries, each with account ID, net liquidation, cash, buying power, etc.

If not connected, explain that TWS/Gateway needs to be running.

Dependencies

```
ib-async
```