Claude did my FreshDirect procuring, with assist from 1Password
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In abstract:
- PCWorld stories that Claude AI’s new 1Password integration permits safe automation of on-line duties like grocery procuring with out exposing consumer passwords.
- The connector makes use of separate channels to keep up safety, with 1Password dealing with login credentials whereas Claude performs web site interactions on desktop Mac.
- Testing confirmed profitable FreshDirect order completion, demonstrating potential for streamlining routine on-line chores, although social logins and passkeys aren’t presently supported.
AI brokers doing our grocery procuring? I’ve heard that promise earlier than, and up till now, it’s been an empty one. However because of a brand new integration with 1Password, the favored password supervisor, Claude simply did my weekly FreshDirect procuring, all with out me ever touching an internet browser.
Introduced simply right this moment, Claude’s 1Password connector lets Claude log into web sites utilizing your saved 1Password credentials. The secret is that Claude by no means really sees your passwords; as a substitute, when it must signal into an internet site, Claude pings the 1Password connector, and 1Password handles your login information utilizing a separate channel that Claude by no means sees.
To additional shield your secret 1Password data, a brand new Agentic Mode locks down the 1Password extension for Chrome, guaranteeing that Claude (which browses the net utilizing its personal Chrome extension) can’t click on on it.
Earlier than going any additional, two vital caveats: Claude’s 1Password connector doesn’t help social logins (like “Check in with Google”). Additionally, passkeys aren’t supported both (or a minimum of not but, 1Password says).
To check Claude’s new 1Password talents, I fired up the Claude Desktop app (for now, you need to use Claude Desktop for Mac), clicked Customise > Connectors, added the 1Password connector, and licensed it. And in the event you haven’t accomplished so already, you’ll additionally want to put in the Chrome extensions for Claude and 1Password.
You could grant Claude’s 1Password connector permission to deal with your login credentials for a given web site.
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Subsequent, I went to Claude Cowork, and gave Claude a immediate: “Are you able to browse to FreshDirect and check in?” (I selected FreshDirect as a result of it’s a procuring website I take advantage of recurrently, and I’ve a weekly supply spot, which provides me just a few days to edit Claude’s decisions.)
Claude started navigating in Chrome, finally hitting the login portal. Claude directed 1Password to enter my username (I needed to give Claude’s 1Password connector permission to make use of my FreshDirect credentials), then advised me {that a} six-digit authorization code was incoming. I entered that code right into a separate modal that Claude couldn’t see, after which — success:
You’re signed in to FreshDirect (account: Benjamin), together with your weekly Saturday 7–9 AM supply slot exhibiting.
That is the place the enjoyable began. Whereas I really like FreshDirect as a service, I hate its finicky web site. Letting Claude do the looking and clicking was, in a phrase, heaven.
“OK,” I advised Claude, “are you able to go to the ‘reorder’ part and recommend 10 objects so as to add to my cart?” It did (milk, scallions, strawberries, cucumbers, shrimp, and extra), I authorised them, and growth — they had been in my procuring cart.
Upping the ante, I gave Claude a recipe for barbecue hen, requested for facet strategies (potato salad, corn bread), after which we talked over components, discussing what I had available and what I wanted.
Claude got here up with a procuring listing (potatoes, cabbage, carrots, and so forth), and I gave the go-ahead, permitting Claude to deal with the remainder:
Including the whole-stalk Ocean Mist Farms Celery, the highest consequence … Added celery to the present order … Good, cabbage confirmed at amount 1. Now looking for carrots….
About 5 minutes later, it was accomplished:
Order up to date — hen leg quarters, gold potatoes, inexperienced cabbage, carrots, celery, pink onion, and bread & butter pickle chips are all added, bringing the brand new whole to $109.60 for Saturday’s 7–9 AM supply. You’re all set for oven BBQ hen with coleslaw and potato salad, and you’ll nonetheless tweak something earlier than Friday 11:45 PM.
A couple of minutes later, a receipt popped up in my e mail. The order appeared good, and I checked my weekly FreshDirect to-do merchandise off my listing.
Inside a couple of minutes, Claude had completed my weekly FreshDirect procuring (and sure, I requested it so as to add a tip).
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Now, Claude’s new 1Password connector is about passwords, not grocery procuring. However the potential for Claude to make use of 1Password to log into web sites as me unlocks all types of attention-grabbing prospects, like a weekly routine the place Claude does a first-pass on my FreshDirect cart, permitting me to go in later and look over its picks.
Would I let Claude pay my on-line bank card payments, or log into my checking account? Ah, no. Would I let Claude and 1Password take FreshDirect off my plate? You wager.
