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      "category": "secrets",
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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/1password.min.md",
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@1password/sdk"
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          "registry": "pypi",
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      "authNotes": "Service account tokens (`OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN`) for unattended use, scoped to chosen vaults and Environments and unable to read Personal, Private or Employee vaults. The SDKs can instead prompt the 1Password desktop app, which approves each integration locally with biometrics. The Environments MCP server runs inside the desktop app and asks for approval per Environment until the app locks.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "No free plan, a 14-day trial on every plan. Individual $3.99 a month ($2.99 promotional, billed yearly), Families $5.99 a month for up to 5 people ($4.49 promotional, billed yearly), Teams Starter Pack $24.95 a month for 10 members plus $4.99 a seat, Business $8.99 per user a month billed yearly. The personal pricing page lists 1Password Developer (SSH, Git commit signing, CLI and SDKs) on Individual and Families, and the business page lists the CLI and SDKs on Teams Starter Pack and Business. Service account rate limits are published for every plan. Unified Access, Privileged Access and the other enterprise products are quote only (https://1password.com/pricing/business, https://1password.com/pricing/password-manager).",
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        "secrets.audit"
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        "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 68,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 94,
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "verdict": "Service accounts scoped per vault to read, write or share, with an optional expiry and permissions that can't be changed after creation. Teams, Families and Individual get 1,000 service account reads an hour per token, and the 429 carries no Retry-After.",
        "bestFor": "Teams whose people already use 1Password and want agents reading from the same vaults with read-only, vault-scoped tokens, and for developers who want an MCP server that never leaks a value.",
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          "Service accounts scoped per vault to read, write or share, with an optional expiry and permissions that can't be changed after creation",
          "Environments MCP server with 8 tools that never returns a secret value and asks for approval per Environment",
          "Official Go, JavaScript and Python SDKs, MIT, with workload identity through the Credential Broker in JavaScript 0.5.0 (public preview)",
          "llms.txt for the developer docs and a public OpenAPI file for the self-hosted Connect server",
          "Signed security.txt, a HackerOne programme, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 listed on the trust centre"
        ],
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          "Teams, Families and Individual get 1,000 service account reads an hour per token, and the 429 carries no Retry-After",
          "SDKs are version 0 with three months of patches per release, and 5 of the 8 newest Python SDK issues have no reply",
          "No SLA found, and the audit log and Events API need Business",
          "The MCP server is beta and needs the desktop app running and unlocked, so it's for a developer's machine, not a server",
          "No MCP registry entry and no way to create a service account without a signed-in person"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Read secrets by reference (op://vault/item/field) with client.secrets.resolve or resolveAll, and keep the reference, not the value, in config",
          "On Teams or personal plans budget for 1,000 reads an hour per token and cache resolved values for the run; a 429 means wait for the hourly window, there's no Retry-After",
          "Create the service account with only read_items on one vault and --expires-in set to the job length, since permissions can't be narrowed later",
          "Set integrationName and integrationVersion in createClient so the usage report shows which agent read what",
          "Don't ask the Environments MCP server for a value. Use it to find the variable name, then load it with op run or the SDK"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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            "grade": "B",
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              "tasks"
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            "run": "2026-10-01",
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            "score": 69.7
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          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 68,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 94,
          "transparency": 78
        },
        "provenanceScore": 95
      },
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        "install": "npm install @1password/sdk   # or: pip install onepassword-sdk",
        "http": "export OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=\"$OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN\"\nop read \"op://Production/Stripe/api_key\"   # 1Password CLI, no REST endpoint for secret reads",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
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              "args": [],
              "command": "1password-mcp"
            }
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/1password"
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      "area": "agent-runtime",
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        {
          "item": "Business plan",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 8.99,
          "note": "Billed yearly. Developer tools and SSO included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams Starter Pack",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 24.95,
          "note": "10 members, $4.99 a month per extra seat"
        },
        {
          "item": "Individual plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 3.99,
          "note": "$2.99 promotional, billed yearly"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "AgileBits Inc. (doing business as 1Password)",
        "domain": "1password.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2003-11-30",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://1password.com/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://1password.com/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.1password.com",
        "changelog": "https://releases.1password.com/developers/sdks/",
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        "checked": "2026-10-01",
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          "Terms name AgileBits Inc., 4711 Yonge Street, Toronto, governed by Ontario law, last updated 12 September 2024. The privacy notice is effective 29 December 2025.",
          "security.txt lists security@agilebits.com and a HackerOne programme and is signed, but has no Expires field.",
          "developer.1password.com now redirects to www.1password.dev.",
          "The status page history shows six incidents between 2 July and 9 September 2026, on Device Trust, SaaS Manager, personal account management and the CLI update server, none posted against service accounts or Connect."
        ],
        "score": 95
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        "slug": "1password",
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          "page": "https://status.1password.com",
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          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
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            "registry": "npm",
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        "pypiWeekly": 839708,
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          "url": "https://1password.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
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          "url": "https://www.1password.dev/llms.txt",
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          "status": 200,
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        "domain": {
          "domain": "1password.com",
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          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/1password.com",
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            "url": "https://1password.com/pricing/password-manager",
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          {
            "url": "https://1password.com/legal/terms-of-service",
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    "answer": "Pulumi ESC scores 71.1 (BB) on agent readiness against 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP's 69.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.",
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      "slug": "pulumi-esc",
      "name": "Pulumi ESC",
      "vendor": "Pulumi Corporation",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.pulumi.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "secrets",
      "summary": "Pulumi ESC is the secrets and configuration service in Pulumi Cloud. Environments hold static secrets, pull from other vaults and issue short-lived cloud credentials over OIDC, read through the Pulumi CLI, a REST API and four SDKs.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pulumi-esc.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/pulumi/esc-sdk",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Pulumi's Terms \u0026 Conditions. The Pulumi CLI, the ESC evaluator and the ESC SDKs are Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.pulumi.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@pulumi/esc-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pulumi-esc-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/pulumi/esc-sdk/sdk"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. Every request sends `Authorization: token \u003ctoken\u003e` to https://api.pulumi.com. A personal token comes from the console and carries all of the user's permissions. Organisation tokens (Essentials and above) and team tokens (Pro and above) are machine tokens that take a role, and custom roles with environment scopes need Pro. A workload on a registered OIDC issuer (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, EKS, GKE and others) exchanges its ID token for a short-lived Pulumi token with `pulumi login --oidc-token` or POST /api/oauth/token. Under an agent with no credentials the CLI creates an ephemeral account by itself.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free edition with 25 secrets and 10,000 API calls a month for one user, no card. Essentials is $40 a month, Pro $400 and Enterprise $2,000, each including that many credits, with a managed secret at $0.50, $0.75 or $1.00 a month and API calls at $0.10 per 10,000. An agent can start with no contract through the free edition or an agent account (https://www.pulumi.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.01 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the ESC docs, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 20661,
        "pypiWeekly": 53903,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.pulumi.com/docs/esc/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.pulumi.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.pulumi.com/api/openapi/pulumi-spec.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "secrets.store",
        "secrets.rotate",
        "secrets.machine-identity",
        "secrets.audit"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "oidc",
        "cli",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "go",
        "dotnet",
        "status-page",
        "soc2",
        "enterprise"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-07",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 71.1,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 114,
        "ranked": true,
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        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 65
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "An agent can start without a signup, because the Pulumi CLI creates a free ephemeral account that includes ESC, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI document. Audit logs, custom roles and approvals need the Pro edition at $400 a month, and no API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.",
        "bestFor": "Teams already on Pulumi, or anyone who wants one place that composes static secrets, other vaults and short-lived cloud credentials, and agents that need to start with no signup.",
        "strengths": [
          "The Pulumi CLI creates a free ephemeral account for an agent with no signup, with write access for 72 hours and 30 days to claim it",
          "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 document with 127 ESC operations, an llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page",
          "OIDC issuers exchange a workload's ID token for a short-lived Pulumi token, 25 hours at most by default",
          "Separate read, open and write scopes per environment, with open approvals and update approvals on Pro and Enterprise",
          "Prices published per unit, $0.50 a secret a month on Essentials and $0.10 per 10,000 API calls, with a free edition and no card"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Audit logs, custom roles, team tokens, approvals and customer-managed keys need Pro ($400 a month) or Enterprise",
          "No API rate limit with numbers was found in the reviewed documentation",
          "No public data processing addendum or subprocessor list was found, and the terms and privacy statement carry no date",
          "The official Pulumi MCP server lists no ESC tools, and the standalone esc CLI was retired at v0.26.0 on 9 July 2026",
          "A 42-minute major incident on 6 October 2026 affected inbound OIDC on the API and ESC, with no detail published",
          "The free edition has personal tokens only, which carry all of the user's permissions"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `pulumi env`, not `esc`. The standalone CLI stopped at v0.26.0 and gets no security fixes",
          "Read one value with `pulumi env open \u003corg\u003e/\u003cproject\u003e/\u003cenv\u003e \u003cproperty path\u003e` so the whole environment doesn't enter context",
          "Run tools with `pulumi env run \u003cenv\u003e -- \u003ccmd\u003e`, which filters secret values from the command's output unless -i is set",
          "Set PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN for the SDKs. From 0.14.0 they no longer read the CLI login on disk",
          "Send `Authorization: token \u003ctoken\u003e` and `Accept: application/vnd.pulumi+8` on REST calls, and expect 409 when an environment changed since it was read",
          "Relay the claim link an agent account prints. The account goes read-only after 72 hours and locks after 30 days unclaimed"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 71.1
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 55,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 82,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "provenanceScore": 82
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com | sh",
        "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: token $PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN\" \\\n     -H \"Accept: application/vnd.pulumi+8\" \\\n     https://api.pulumi.com/api/user"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/secrets.store",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/pulumi-esc"
      },
      "area": "agent-runtime",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "ESC API calls",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "$0.10 per 10,000. First 10,000 a month free on the free edition"
        },
        {
          "item": "Essentials edition",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 40,
          "note": "Includes 40 credits. A managed secret is $0.50 a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro edition",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 400,
          "note": "Includes 400 credits. A managed secret is $0.75 a month"
        },
        {
          "item": "Enterprise edition",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 2000,
          "note": "Includes 2,000 credits. A managed secret is $1.00 a month"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Pulumi Corporation",
        "domain": "pulumi.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-02-13",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.pulumi.com/terms-and-conditions/",
        "privacy": "https://www.pulumi.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.pulumi.com",
        "changelog": "https://www.pulumi.com/releases/changelog/",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms \u0026 Conditions govern use of the Pulumi Services and name Pulumi Corporation, 601 Union St., Suite 1415, Seattle, WA 98101, with Washington law and King County courts. We found no date on the page.",
          "The privacy statement covers customers who register to use the services and gives privacy@pulumi.com as contact. We found no date on the page.",
          "www.pulumi.com/.well-known/security.txt and www.pulumi.com/security.txt both return 404. The security page gives security@pulumi.com and a PGP key.",
          "status.pulumi.com is Atlassian Statuspage with an ESC component. Its incident feed goes back to October 2023.",
          "No data processing addendum or subprocessor list was found on www.pulumi.com. The addresses we tried returned 404 and the sitemap lists neither.",
          "RDAP for pulumi.com gives a registration date of 2017-02-13."
        ],
        "score": 82
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        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.pulumi.com",
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          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:56.424476066Z",
          "lastOk": true,
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          "lastMs": 155,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 311,
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          "samples30d": 19,
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              "ok": 19
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.pulumi.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pulumi-esc.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Teams whose people already use 1Password and want agents reading from the same vaults with read-only, vault-scoped tokens, and for developers who want an MCP server that never leaks a value.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 60\n- Security \u0026 auth, 94 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Teams, Families and Individual get 1,000 service account reads an hour per token, and the 429 carries no Retry-After\n\n### Pulumi ESC (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Pulumi, or anyone who wants one place that composes static secrets, other vaults and short-lived cloud credentials, and agents that need to start with no signup.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 74\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 69\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Audit logs, custom roles, team tokens, approvals and customer-managed keys need Pro ($400 a month) or Enterprise\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP | Pulumi ESC | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 60 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 82 | Pulumi ESC +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 75 | Pulumi ESC +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 94 | 79 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 55 | Pulumi ESC +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 82 | Pulumi ESC +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 65 | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.7 · B** | **71.1 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP | Pulumi ESC |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | 1Password | Pulumi Corporation |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.pulumi.com` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Pulumi's Terms \u0026 Conditions. The Pulumi CLI, the ESC evaluator and the ESC SDKs are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-09-12 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-12-29 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 110 stars, 1M npm/wk, 817k PyPI/wk | 21k npm/wk, 54k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP.** Service accounts scoped per vault to read, write or share, with an optional expiry and permissions that can't be changed after creation. Teams, Families and Individual get 1,000 service account reads an hour per token, and the 429 carries no Retry-After.\n\n**Pulumi ESC.** An agent can start without a signup, because the Pulumi CLI creates a free ephemeral account that includes ESC, and the REST API has a public OpenAPI document. Audit logs, custom roles and approvals need the Pro edition at $400 a month, and no API rate limit was found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP\n\n1. Read secrets by reference (op://vault/item/field) with client.secrets.resolve or resolveAll, and keep the reference, not the value, in config\n2. On Teams or personal plans budget for 1,000 reads an hour per token and cache resolved values for the run; a 429 means wait for the hourly window, there's no Retry-After\n3. Create the service account with only read_items on one vault and --expires-in set to the job length, since permissions can't be narrowed later\n4. Set integrationName and integrationVersion in createClient so the usage report shows which agent read what\n5. Don't ask the Environments MCP server for a value. Use it to find the variable name, then load it with op run or the SDK\n\n### Pulumi ESC\n\n1. Use `pulumi env`, not `esc`. The standalone CLI stopped at v0.26.0 and gets no security fixes\n2. Read one value with `pulumi env open \u003corg\u003e/\u003cproject\u003e/\u003cenv\u003e \u003cproperty path\u003e` so the whole environment doesn't enter context\n3. Run tools with `pulumi env run \u003cenv\u003e -- \u003ccmd\u003e`, which filters secret values from the command's output unless -i is set\n4. Set PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN for the SDKs. From 0.14.0 they no longer read the CLI login on disk\n5. Send `Authorization: token \u003ctoken\u003e` and `Accept: application/vnd.pulumi+8` on REST calls, and expect 409 when an environment changed since it was read\n6. Relay the claim link an agent account prints. The account goes read-only after 72 hours and locks after 30 days unclaimed\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP or Pulumi ESC?\n\nPulumi ESC scores 71.1 (BB) on agent readiness against 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP's 69.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP leads on reliability, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call 1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP and Pulumi ESC without installing anything?\n\n1Password service accounts, SDKs and Environments MCP runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. 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