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In summary:
- PCWorld reports that Claude AI’s new 1Password integration allows secure automation of online tasks like grocery shopping without exposing user passwords.
- The connector uses separate channels to maintain security, with 1Password handling login credentials while Claude performs website interactions on desktop Mac.
- Testing showed successful FreshDirect order completion, demonstrating potential for streamlining routine online chores, though social logins and passkeys aren’t currently supported.
AI agents doing our grocery shopping? I’ve heard that promise before, and up until now, it’s been an empty one. But thanks to a new integration with 1Password, the popular password manager, Claude just did my weekly FreshDirect shopping, all without me ever touching a web browser.
Announced just today, Claude’s 1Password connector lets Claude log into websites using your stored 1Password credentials. The key is that Claude never actually sees your passwords; instead, when it needs to sign into a website, Claude pings the 1Password connector, and 1Password handles your login info using a separate channel that Claude never sees.
To further protect your secret 1Password information, a new Agentic Mode locks down the 1Password extension for Chrome, ensuring that Claude (which browses the web using its own Chrome extension) can’t click on it.
Before going any further, two important caveats: Claude’s 1Password connector doesn’t support social logins (like “Sign in with Google”). Also, passkeys aren’t supported either (or at least not yet, 1Password says).
To test Claude’s new 1Password abilities, I fired up the Claude Desktop app (for now, you must use Claude Desktop for Mac), clicked Customize > Connectors, added the 1Password connector, and authorized it. And if you haven’t done so already, you’ll also need to install the Chrome extensions for Claude and 1Password.
You must grant Claude’s 1Password connector permission to handle your login credentials for a given website.
Ben Patterson/Foundry
Next, I went to Claude Cowork, and gave Claude a prompt: “Can you browse to FreshDirect and sign in?” (I chose FreshDirect because it’s a shopping site I use regularly, and I have a weekly delivery spot, which gives me a few days to edit Claude’s choices.)
Claude began navigating in Chrome, eventually hitting the login portal. Claude directed 1Password to enter my username (I had to give Claude’s 1Password connector permission to use my FreshDirect credentials), then told me that a six-digit authorization code was incoming. I entered that code into a separate modal that Claude couldn’t see, and then — success:
You’re signed in to FreshDirect (account: Benjamin), with your weekly Saturday 7–9 AM delivery slot showing.
This is where the fun started. While I love FreshDirect as a service, I hate its finicky website. Letting Claude do the searching and clicking was, in a word, heaven.
“OK,” I told Claude, “can you go to the ‘reorder’ section and suggest 10 items to add to my cart?” It did (milk, scallions, strawberries, cucumbers, shrimp, and more), I approved them, and boom — they were in my shopping cart.
Upping the ante, I gave Claude a recipe for barbecue chicken, asked for side suggestions (potato salad, corn bread), and then we talked over ingredients, discussing what I had on hand and what I needed.
Claude came up with a shopping list (potatoes, cabbage, carrots, and so on), and I gave the go-ahead, allowing Claude to handle the rest:
Adding the whole-stalk Ocean Mist Farms Celery, the top result … Added celery to the existing order … Good, cabbage confirmed at quantity 1. Now searching for carrots….
About five minutes later, it was done:
Order updated — chicken leg quarters, gold potatoes, green cabbage, carrots, celery, red onion, and bread & butter pickle chips are all added, bringing the new total to $109.60 for Saturday’s 7–9 AM delivery. You’re all set for oven BBQ chicken with coleslaw and potato salad, and you can still tweak anything before Friday 11:45 PM.
A few minutes later, a receipt popped up in my email. The order looked good, and I checked my weekly FreshDirect to-do item off my list.
Within a few minutes, Claude had finished my weekly FreshDirect shopping (and yes, I asked it to add a tip).
Ben Patterson/Foundry
Now, Claude’s new 1Password connector is about passwords, not grocery shopping. But the ability for Claude to use 1Password to log into websites as me unlocks all kinds of interesting possibilities, like a weekly routine where Claude does a first-pass on my FreshDirect cart, allowing me to go in later and look over its picks.
Would I let Claude pay my online credit card bills, or log into my checking account? Ah, no. Would I let Claude and 1Password take FreshDirect off my plate? You bet.