Developer newsletter: June 2025

Hello, friends 👋

This month, we're focusing on the launch of 1Password environments, which simplify secrets management and help you tame secrets sprawl.

AWS Secrets Manager is the first destination available in 1Password environments. Read on to learn why we built 1Password environments, how our new AWS integration simplifies secrets management, and what you need to get started. 

Later in the issue, you'll find an agentic AI discussion with Abe Ankumah, Chief Product Officer at 1Password, and a community-created website script that utilizes 1Password. Enjoy!

News: Simpler secret syncing with AWS

Let's be real – managing secrets can quickly spiral into a disorganized, unsecure mess. That fragmentation leads to "secret sprawl" and operational headaches that slow everyone down.

We want to make things simpler. Much simpler.

Our new integration lets you push secrets into AWS Secrets Manager from within the 1Password desktop app. You don't have to write code, configure service accounts, or juggle multiple platforms. It's the 1Password experience you already know and use to protect your passwords – now extended to secrets.

To get started, all you need is our password manager and an active AWS Secrets Manager account.

Read the blog post 👉

Introducing 1Password environments

You can set up and manage application secrets from 1Password environments, which is now available in beta. It's a new section of the 1Password desktop app accessible from the sidebar. 

(To see it, you must have the 1Password Developer experience enabled in the app's settings.)

1Password environments started as an internal hackathon project. We set out to reduce development complexity, particularly as developers are spinning up new AI-related projects. Now more than ever, it's critically important to control how secrets are being stored, scoped, and accessed.

AWS is the most widely used cloud provider, so it made perfect sense for us to integrate with their platform first. But that's just the starting point for 1Password environments – we plan to support additional secrets syncing destinations in the future, further increasing its utility.

Experiment with 1Password environments and jump into the 1Password Community forum if you have any questions or want to suggest future integrations!

Read the blog post 👉
Join the conversation on 1Password Community  👉

Listen: Random but Memorable 14.9 with 1Password CPO Abe Ankumah

Earlier this year, we announced that 1Password SDKs now provide full programmatic access to 1Password items. You can use our SDKs for various projects, including any experiments you’re running with AI agents. With 1Password, you can provide an agent with secure, scoped, runtime access to credentials and other secrets stored in 1Password.

Abe Ankumah, Chief Product Officer at 1Password, went into more detail on a recent episode of the Random but Memorable podcast:

"Let’s say I'm an end user and I'm adopting AI and this agent needs access to my credentials. One of the things we're doing is enabling agent builders to, through APIs and SDKs, integrate with 1Password in order to actually allow other 1Password users to safely and securely delegate access to their credentials to these agents."

Listen to the full episode (the interview starts at 13:42) or read the interview transcript on 1Password Community for an extended discussion on how 1Password thinks about the security risks and opportunities associated with AI.

Listen to the podcast 👉
Discuss the episode 👉

Afterward, follow this tutorial to learn how to secure AI agent access with 1Password SDKs!

Community shout-outs

Here are a few articles that our team has been reading, bookmarking, and sharing internally:

A site setup script

Software developer Cory Dransfeldt shares a setup script for their personal website, coryd.dev:

"All of the secrets necessary to run it are in a 1Password entry and this script leverages their CLI in order to populate the configs necessary to run this site locally when it's been freshly cloned."

Signing Codeberg GIT commits with SSH and 1Password

In this blog post, designer Wenzel explains how to verify an SSH key stored in 1Password so you can sign Git commits on Codeberg.

Join the 1Password Community

That's it for this month. If you want to chat about anything covered in this newsletter, join the 1Password developer Slack or hop over to 1Password Community and start a new discussion thread!

– The developer team at 1Password