1Password launched 1Password for Agents on 22 October 2026, a sign-in platform that lets personal AI agents get into a user's online accounts without ever seeing the password. The target is a habit that grew as agents began paying bills and planning trips: because most of those jobs mean logging in somewhere, people paste the password into the chat, which leaves a copy outside their control. The other options, taking over the session to type it in or relying on a browser's saved passwords, stop the agent at every login.
The mechanics are simple. When an agent reaches a login page, it identifies itself to 1Password with its own digital key. The request then tells the user which account is wanted and why, and nothing happens until the user approves it on their own device. At that point 1Password fills in the form itself, so the credential never passes through the model. Access lasts for one session and covers only the items the user has approved, and one-time MFA codes are injected the same way, outside the model. The user can see what is shared and disconnect an integration at any time.
“starting to do real work on our behalf”
Aashish Tripathi, chief product officer, 1Password, in the announcement coverage · siliconangle.com ↗
Named integrations are Meta's Muse, Anthropic's Claude Duet, OpenAI's ChatGPT Work and dots, SpaceXSI's Grok Bot and Town's Townie. Muse and Grok Bot are due to roll out over the coming days, while Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, dots and Town are listed as coming soon. Nine more integrations are in progress: Instinct, Browserbase, Browser Use, Dana, KERNEL, Perplexity, Ramp, Tomo and Wajo. Town.com raised $108m this week, according to SiliconANGLE, and no dates were given for when each partner will reach users.
The service is free for 1Password Individual and Family accounts on 1Password.com, though accounts on the .eu and .ca domains are not supported. Availability and capabilities differ by partner, and Engadget says details on pricing and availability are still to come. It also cautions that giving an agent safe access does not stop it from making mistakes when it orders or books something.
1Password's chief product officer, Aashish Tripathi, argued that an agent asked to do one job should not end up with permanent access to everything behind the account. Anthropic, for its part, said it wants this kind of help to reach people who have never let an agent near their accounts.
Engadget's lead image for the story, an illustration for 1Password's agent login feature
Image: Engadget
The integrations differ in what they do. Meta's Muse turns goals into plans and asks 1Password for logins as it goes; 1Password's own example is a party, where Muse asks for access to RSVPify and Oriental Trading and the user picks which login it may use, with the rest of the vault out of reach. Town's Townie drafts, schedules and follows up from a user's email and calendar, and employees approve the logins it needs. SpaceXSI's head of product, Tido Carriero, said Grok Bot can sign in without anyone pasting a password into it.
On the Anthropic side, Claude Duet asks before signing in anywhere, and Anthropic's chief product officer, Ami Vora, said 1Password will soon fill those sign-ins from passwords people have already set up. Because everything stays in one vault, a changed password only has to be updated once for every connected agent to keep working. SiliconANGLE adds that Canva and Stripe are among the more than 200,000 businesses using 1Password.
About 1Password
1Password is a password manager from the Toronto software company AgileBits, which says it founded the product in 2005. It keeps passwords, software licences and other sensitive information in an encrypted vault and runs on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and macOS.
It first took on the question of agents and logins on 8 October 2025, when it announced Secure Agentic Autofill in early access with Browserbase, a cloud browser automation company. A customer connected their vault to Browserbase's Director tool, and administrators chose which credentials an agent could reach. Each request was approved in real time in the 1Password app, and the AI model itself never received the credentials.
The groundwork was already in place. Claude has worked with 1Password in the browser since July, and agents from Perplexity and Browserbase have been connected since late 2025. The CTO, Nancy Wang, made the case for task-based access for agents at Oktane last month, and the launch follows that argument.
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