1Password lets an AI agent sign in without seeing the password
The feature is free on Individual and Family accounts. Muse and Grok Bot get it first; Claude Duet and ChatGPT Work have no date.
1Password introduced 1Password for Agents on Thursday, a platform that lets a personal AI agent sign in to its user's accounts without receiving or seeing the password.
It works in four steps. First, the agent proves its identity to 1Password with a unique digital key. Then its owner sees on their own device which credential is being requested and for what purpose, and decides whether to approve it. If the owner agrees, 1Password types the password into the login form without handing it to the agent, and the agent carries on with its task.
The feature is free on Individual and Family accounts on 1Password.com, according to MacRumors. The general 1Password subscription costs from $3.99 a month when paid annually. Muse, Meta's assistant, and Grok Bot will get it within days. Anthropic's Claude Duet, OpenAI's ChatGPT Work and dots, and Town's Townie are listed as coming soon, with no date.
The announcement names Browserbase, Browser Use, Perplexity and Ramp, among others, as partners.
"The old model where you hand over a credential and hope for the best doesn't work," said Aashish Tripathi, 1Password's chief product officer.
The announcement coincided with an Axios report that U.S. banks are starting to see agents operating in their customers' accounts, and that almost all of them cannot tell whether the user asked for it.
That the agent never sees the password is 1Password's claim; there has been no independent assessment.
