On the same day Axios reported that large U.S. banks are finding unauthorized AI agents inside customer accounts, 1Password began rolling out a way for those agents to log in without ever holding a password.

The product, 1Password for Agents, is included at no extra cost for Individual and Family accounts on 1Password.com, the company said in its announcement Thursday morning. Launch partners are Meta’s Muse, Anthropic’s Claude Duet, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work and dots, SpaceXSI’s Grok Bot and Town’s Townie assistant. Not all of them work yet. A 1Password blog post lists Muse and Grok Bot as rolling out over the coming days and marks the Claude Duet, OpenAI and Town connections as coming soon. Accounts hosted on 1Password.eu or 1Password.ca aren’t supported.

What happens at the login screen

When an agent reaches a sign-in form, it identifies itself to 1Password with a unique digital key. The user gets a prompt on their own device showing which credential the agent wants and why.…