1Password MCP Server

Give your AI assistant a locked door to 1Password — not a pile of passwords in the chat.

@takescake/1password-mcp is a community Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Gemini, and other MCP clients manage vaults and credentials through a 1Password Service Account.

Built on the MCP TypeScript SDK v2 with protocol negotiation for 2026-07-28 (and legacy clients). Secrets stay in 1Password; agents prefer op:// references and op_run so plaintext never has to land in the model transcript.

Not an official 1Password product. Community-built, Apache 2.0 licensed.

Who this is for

Why teams pick this server

• Security-first defaults — password_read and item_get return metadata unless you opt in with reveal: true.
• op_run (the MCP equivalent of op run) — inject op://vault/item/field into a local command’s environment; plaintext is redacted from stdout/stderr and never logged back to the model.
• Full vault toolkit — list, search, get, edit, create logins & notes, rotate passwords, archive, or delete.
• Guided prompts — password generation, credential rotation, vault audit, and secret-reference helpers.
• Browsable resources — vault and item catalogs over 1password://… URIs (no secrets in resource payloads).
• Modern MCP — stdio transport, Zod 4 schemas, MCP 2026-07-28 negotiation with legacy client compatibility.

What you get

Tools (15)

Grouped the way agents and humans actually use them.

Discover

Read (safe by default)

Create & update

Use secrets without revealing them

Soft-delete & destroy

Prompts (4)

Resources (3)

Before you start

You need two things:

1. Node.js 20 or newer
2. A 1Password Service Account with access to the vault(s) you want the AI to use

Create a service account (plain English)

1. Sign in to your 1Password account on the web.
2. Open Developer → Service Accounts (or follow 1Password’s guide).
3. Create a service account and grant it only the vaults you want automation to touch (for example an Automation or CI vault — not your personal banking vault).
4. Copy the token once. Treat it like a master key.

Quick start

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code / most IDEs

Add this to your MCP config (exact file depends on the app):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "1password": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@takescake/1password-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the app, then try: “List my 1Password vaults.”

macOS Keychain (no token in the config file)

Store the token in Keychain, then point the server at it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "1password": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@takescake/1password-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OP_KEYCHAIN_SERVICE": "op-service-account-claude-automation",
        "OP_KEYCHAIN_ACCOUNT": "your-macos-username"
      }
    }
  }
}

Token resolution order: CLI (--service-account-token / --token) → OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN → macOS Keychain. OP_KEYCHAIN_ACCOUNT is optional when the service name alone is unique.

OpenAI Codex (TOML)

Option A — token in config:

[mcp_servers."1password"]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@takescake/1password-mcp"]

[mcp_servers."1password".env]
OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN = "YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN"

Option B (recommended) — config only names the env var:

[mcp_servers."1password"]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@takescake/1password-mcp"]
env_vars = ["OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN"]

Set OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN in your shell or CI. Note: codex mcp add ... --env OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=... writes the secret into Codex config; prefer env_vars when you can.

On macOS you can omit the token env and use OP_KEYCHAIN_SERVICE (+ optional OP_KEYCHAIN_ACCOUNT) instead.

Optional: lock op_run / op_check_ref to certain vaults

By default those tools may resolve op:// references from any vault the service account can see. To allow-list vaults:

{
  "env": {
    "OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN",
    "OP_MCP_ALLOWED_VAULTS": "Automation, CI"
  }
}

Names or IDs work. References outside the list are rejected before resolution. Same setting via --allowed-vaults.

For agents: how to handle secrets

Follow this order every time:

1. Discover with vault_list → item_lookup / item_list (metadata only).
2. Confirm a reference with op_check_ref — never reveal just to see if a path exists.
3. Use a secret in a command or API call with op_run and op://vault/item/field in env.
4. Reveal with password_read / item_get + reveal: true only when the human explicitly needs the value in chat.
5. Rotate with password_generate → password_update (keep returnSecret: false unless asked).
6. Prefer item_archive over item_delete unless permanent removal is required.

op_run sketch

{
  "argv": ["curl", "-sS", "https://api.example.com/health"],
  "env": {
    "API_TOKEN": "op://Automation/Example API/credential"
  },
  "timeout_ms": 60000
}

Prefer argv over a shell command string when you can — fewer quoting surprises.

Configuration reference

Environment variables