Use cases
Quickstart
If you’re installing 1Password CLI for the first time, start here.Guides
Manage items and users
- Create and retrieve items.
- Add and remove team members.
- Manage your team members’ vault permissions.
- Manage your team members’ group permissions.
Provision secrets
- Securely load environment variables from 1Password Environments into your applications.
- Access secrets in your code with secret references instead of plaintext secrets. Secret references are replaced with the actual secrets they reference in 1Password at runtime.
- Securely load secrets from the environment into your applications using secret references.
- Securely inject secrets into configuration files using secret references.
Authenticate with biometrics
- Use shell plugins to securely authenticate third-party CLIs with biometrics.
- Build your own shell plugin if the CLI you want to authenticate isn’t already supported.
Use 1Password CLI with other tools
- Use 1Password for VS Code to bring 1Password CLI functionality to VS Code.
- Use 1Password Service Accounts to limit the vaults 1Password CLI can access or run automated scripts if your personal account uses SSO or MFA.
- Use with 1Password Environments to quickly load your project secrets from 1Password.
- Use a 1Password Connect Server with 1Password CLI to securely access your items in your company’s apps and cloud infrastructure using a private REST API.
- Use 1Password CI/CD Integrations with 1Password CLI to allow jobs in your pipeline to securely access secrets stored in 1Password.
- Use the 1Password Events API with 1Password CLI to provision bearer tokens at runtime using secret references.
Reference documentation
- Read the full command reference to learn about all 1Password CLI commands and how they can be used.
- Learn about CLI best practices.
- Learn about the 1Password app integration.
- Learn about the shell plugins security model.