CLI Slow Performance

Some hopefully good news for some of you, particularly if you are using op in dev and agent related workflows.

We just added some built-in caching support to varlock - it's free and open source and has a great 1Password plugin (we are happy 1P users ourselves). This means values read from 1Password are stored in a local cache and subsequent reads are MUCH faster. This cache is still secured by Secure Enclave / TPM / etc. Works with 1P environments as well.

Also worth noting, our "session" logic is a bit more flexible, so in some cases where op would prompt you every time, varlock will figure out that it's a single session. Some examples are LLM sessions within codex/claude desktop apps, and parallel processes from things like turborepo.

Varlock also gives you built-in validation, drop in integrations for many frameworks, multi-env management, and extra guardrails around your secrets.

Please try it out and let us know what you think or if you run into any problems!