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Envlet and 1Password Secrets Automation
1Password Secrets Automation exposes vault items to machines through service accounts and a Connect server. Envlet is a purpose-built environment store with a CLI and SDKs that inject at boot.
What 1Password Secrets Automation does well
If your company already keeps everything in 1Password vaults, Secrets Automation lets machines read those items with service accounts or a self-hosted Connect server. Values are vault items, not environment variables, so each app maps items to names itself.
Where Envlet differs
- 01Who counts as a seat
- Envlet bills humans only. Five coding agents are five tokens and zero seats, on every plan including Free.
- 02Agents get their own tokens
- Every coding agent gets its own token. Production starts withheld for it, and the audit log shows what it read, under its own name.
- 03Setup is one command, or one sentence
- envlet run -- in front of the command you already use, or the MCP server and the words move us to Envlet. Nothing to install on the host, nothing to operate.
- 04Shape of the data
- Envlet stores environments: named variables per project and environment, resolved into a process with one command. There is no mapping layer between a vault item and an env var.
When to pick which
Pick Envlet when
You want env vars and per-environment tokens for people, agents, and CI without running a Connect server.
Pick 1Password Secrets Automation when
Your secrets already live in 1Password vaults and you want machines to read them from there.