# Overview

> The Alpha Ladder Agent Skill packages Alpha Ladder as an agent skill layer on top of the MCP server — one skill, four capability groups, driven by natural language.

The **Alpha Ladder Agent Skill** turns Alpha Ladder into a guided natural-language experience inside AI clients. It is a single [Agent Skill package](https://github.com/metacomp-ai/metacomp-skill) that sits on top of the Alpha Ladder MCP server: instead of composing tool calls yourself, you load the skill and just ask — your agent follows the right multi-step workflow, confirms before anything moves money, and returns clean, readable results.

It is **one skill** that provides **four capability groups**:

<Cards>
  <Card icon={<ArrowDownToLine />} title="Deposit" href="/developers/financial-services/guides/deposit-fiat" description="Receive fiat into your Alpha Ladder account." />
  <Card icon={<ArrowUpFromLine />} title="Withdraw" href="/developers/financial-services/guides/withdraw-fiat" description="Send fiat — first-party or third-party." />
  <Card icon={<ArrowLeftRight />} title="Exchange" href="/developers/financial-services/guides/exchange-otc" description="OTC currency exchange with a locked quote." />
  <Card icon={<PiggyBank />} title="Wealth" href="/developers/financial-services/guides/wealth-fip" description="Subscribe to Fixed Income Products (FIP)." />
</Cards>

## Why use the skill

The MCP server already exposes every Alpha Ladder operation as a [tool](/developers/financial-services/tools). The skill is the **agent playbook** on top of it — so you get:

- **Guided workflows** — multi-step flows (quote → confirm → execute, precheck → subscribe) are orchestrated for you; no manual tool composition.
- **Safe by default** — destructive actions (withdrawals, exchange confirmation, FIP subscription) always pause for your explicit confirmation.
- **Clean output** — results come back as readable prose and tables, never raw JSON.
- **Natural and multilingual** — ask in plain language; the skill matches the language you use.

## Next steps

- [Install the skill](/developers/skill/install) — load it into your AI client and connect your account.
- [How it works](/developers/skill/how-it-works) — the skill, the MCP server, and your Alpha Ladder account.