🔊 Securing Cursor agentic development with 1Password Environments

Today we announced a new integration between 1Password and Cursor that helps reduce credential exposure during AI-assisted development.

With the new 1Password Environments Hook Script for Cursor, teams can use 1Password Environments to make required secrets securely available to Cursor workflows, only when authorized and only when needed during development.

The Hook Script validates that the correct environment setup is in place, while 1Password remains the secure source of truth for secrets, tokens, and credentials referenced by your project’s .env configuration.

Secrets are made available at runtime via 1Password, governed by the same vaults, policies, and permissions your team already relies on.

How it works (high level)

When a Cursor agent needs to run a command or perform an action that requires access to API keys, tokens or credentials:

1. Before Cursor runs any shell commands, the 1Password Environments Hook Script is invoked.
2. The script verifies that required locally mounted .env files from 1Password Environments are present and available.
3. If everything checks out, the script allows the command to run. If not, it returns context specific instructions for how to fix the setup.
4. When a process requests access, 1Password prompts you to authorize and then makes the required secret available in memory for the runtime session.

Get started

If you’re experimenting with Cursor or rolling out AI-assisted development workflows across your team or organization, this integration gives you a safer way to enable agents to assist your developers.

• Read the full announcement: “Bringing secure, just-in-time secrets to Cursor with 1Password”
• Explore the 1Password Environments documentation for Cursor Hooks
• Learn more about Cursor Hooks for security and platforms teams

Questions, feedback, or early learnings? Reply here, we’d love to hear what you build.