1Password opens the door to AI brokers — with out handing over your passwords

Obtainable now for 1Password particular person and household accounts, the 1Password for Brokers integration lets your supported AI agent log into a web site utilizing your 1Password credentials. The agent should first confirm its identification with 1Password utilizing a novel digital key; as soon as that’s carried out, 1Password takes over, plugging your username and password immediately into the positioning with out your agent attending to see them.

If this type of 1Password performance sounds acquainted, it’s possible you’ll be considering of 1Password for Claude, a Claude extension that lets Claude Cowork log into web sites utilizing your 1Password credentials with out seeing your usernames or passwords. 

In an e-mail, 1Password enterprise chief John Torrey informed me that 1Password for Brokers “builds on integrations like 1Password for Claude,” permitting private AI brokers that aren’t tied to your desktop to securely deal with your 1Password credentials.

Torrey confused that 1Password customers will stay in management on the subject of figuring out when and the way brokers use their passwords. “The consumer is concerned in each determination,” Torrey mentioned. “Our prospects resolve which credentials an agent can use and for which process, and for a way lengthy. The agent can’t approve its personal entry.”

At launch, 1Password for Brokers will supply integrations for ChatGPT Work and “dot” brokers, Claude Duet (the brand new “proactive” Claude agent), Grok Bot, Meta Muse, and Townie brokers.

Noticeably absent from the checklist is Google’s Gemini Spark agent, in addition to Microsoft Scout, however 1Password’s press launch notes there are “extra integrations to come back.”