Interactive Brokers API Claude Skill: TWS & IB Gateway

Name: Interactive Brokers API Developer AI Skill - Ferdinand
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Interactive Brokers API Developer AI Skill - Ferdinand

Get the connection layer solid before a single order-placement line of code, because IBKR's socket API was never built for unattended uptime.

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ib_insync bot: every morning around the same time it throws error 1100 then trades weird all day. Restarting fixes it. Why?

CLAUDE · WITH THIS SKILL Error 1100 is connectivity lost - and same-time-every-morning means TWS's scheduled daily restart, which drops the socket and leaves your bot running on stale state all day. The restart 'fix' is the tell: you're missing the 1100/1101/1102 handling contract - on reconnect you must re-request account state, open orders and positions, then reconcile against internal state before trading resumes; ib_insync rebuilds the socket but your order-book truth doesn't rebuild itself. Either handle 1101 with a full resync routine or run IB Gateway with a managed restart window the bot expects. Also check clientId collisions eating callbacks. Paste the connection handler and I'll rewrite the recovery path.

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You are Ferdinand, a Senior Interactive Brokers API Developer working across the TWS API, IB Gateway, ib_insync and ib_async, bracket orders and VWAP and TWAP algos. You have been activated to build a connection that survives the night.

Drop Ferdinand into Claude and get a Senior Interactive Brokers API Developer who has spent years wiring trading systems into TWS and IB Gateway and knows exactly where that stack bites people. Ferdinand does not treat the IBKR API as "just another REST integration." It is a stateful socket protocol wrapped around a desktop application that was never designed for unattended uptime, and Ferdinand's whole approach is built around that reality: connections drop, client IDs collide, market data permissions silently downgrade to delayed, and paper and live accounts look identical enough to place a real order by mistake if the switch-over isn't deliberate. Ferdinand covers the full IBKR API development lifecycle: TWS API and IB Gateway installation and connection configuration, the ib_insync/ib_async versus native ibapi library decision, multi-asset-class order routing across stocks, options, futures, and forex through a single interface, paper-to-live account switching, market data subscription tiers and permissioning, resilient

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What's inside this skill

Connection layer design with reconnect and heartbeat handling
Review of your TWS API wiring against unattended-uptime failure modes
Order-placement pattern with error and rejection handling
Unattended uptime checklist for overnight and weekend runs

Algo developers and quant traders running IBKR bots that must survive overnight

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Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "Interactive Brokers API Developer AI Skill - Ferdinand" skill (handle: ferdinand-interactive-brokers-api-developer-ai-skill) for me

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What you're actually buying

Get the connection layer solid before a single order-placement line of code, because IBKR's socket API was never built for unattended uptime.

Ferdinand is a Senior Interactive Brokers API Developer skill built for the full IBKR API lifecycle: setting up TWS API/IB Gateway connections correctly, choosing between ib_insync/ib_async and native ibapi, routing orders across stocks, options, futures, and forex through correctly qualified Contract objects, keeping paper and live accounts genuinely separate, confirming real-time versus delayed market data, and building reconnection logic with backoff and state resync that survives IBKR's fragile connections.

Who it's for

developers building programmatic trading systems on top of Interactive Brokers who need the connection, contract, and order-type details right the first time.

Key capabilities

Defaults automation projects to IB Gateway over TWS and confirms the exact API settings (socket port, read-only mode, trusted IPs) before a line of Python gets written.
Builds a reconnection loop with exponential backoff, a unique tracked client ID, and full state resync on reconnect into every long-running script from the start, not bolted on after the first outage.
Hardcodes and logs the intended paper-or-live environment on every script that places real orders, treating a switch to live as a deliberate config change and redeploy, never a runtime flag.
Confirms which market data type a connection is actually receiving before trusting a quote, since delayed data can be silently returned as if it were live.
Qualifies every Contract object (stocks, options, futures, forex) against IBKR before placing an order, and builds bracket orders with correct parent/child linking and transmit sequencing.

How to use it

Paste Ferdinand's SKILL.md into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI system prompt), then hand over your connection problem, order routing need, or reconnection bug. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.

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What AI tools does this work with?+

Any AI chat that accepts custom instructions - Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others. Paste the SKILL.md content into your project instructions or system prompt.

How do I install it?+

Download the file, paste its full contents into your AI's custom instructions, project instructions, or system prompt field. Takes under 2 minutes.

Is this a course or a tool?+

It's a tool - a structured expert persona and workflow, not a video course. You use it immediately by pasting it into your AI chat.

Why does Ferdinand treat paper and live IBKR accounts as two separate environments instead of a settings toggle?+

Because paper and live run on different default ports and account ID prefixes, and a live-account script that looks identical to its paper counterpart is exactly how a real order gets placed by accident. Ferdinand hardcodes the intended environment at the top of any order-placing script and logs which one a session connected to on startup.