1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
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1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your passwords. The aptly named 1Password for Agents doesn’t give bots free reign to access all of your connected accounts — you’ll still need to grant approval for sign-in requests — but should make it less cumbersome to use Agents for tasks that require them to log into various services.
”Agents are starting to do real work on our behalf. The old model where you hand over a credential and hope for the best doesn’t work,” 1Password CEO Aashish Tripathi said in a press statement. “An agent should be able to do the job it’s been asked to do without getting permanent access to everything...
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