Alva

Alva is an agentic finance platform. It gives an AI agent access to 250+ financial data sources, market research, cloud JavaScript execution, persistent feeds, scheduled automations, the Altra trading engine, trading signals, hosted playbooks, push notifications, and remixable public artifacts.

This file is the platform encyclopedia and operating guide. Read it to understand what Alva can do, how the concepts fit together, which path a user request belongs to, and which focused reference owns the detailed procedure. It is intentionally not the full playbook-building manual. Long command sequences, API gotchas, release checklists, design rules, examples, and debugging recipes live in references/.

Mental Model

Alva turns finance work into durable, inspectable pipelines. The agent should not be the data source; the agent builds the pipeline that fetches data, checks shape, computes outputs, persists them, and renders or explains the result.