Use Bitwarden to keep track of your AI agents’ credentials

Use of agentic AI to automate tasks for businesses is growing, and AI agent builder tools are becoming a staple in enterprise SaaS offerings. As you and your users begin employing all these virtual helpers, you need to take into consideration how the AI agents are secured, especially if they need to use credentials to log into other services to complete their tasks.

While there are programmatic methods for securing the credentials that AI agents use, simpler techniques, accessible to every user, are possible with the secure Bitwarden vault, where the credentials already live. Here are some ways to help organize credentials supplied to AI agents

Group together the credentials for the AI agent and any credentials the AI agent has been given into a single folder (you only) or into a collection (shared). This way a single glance at the Bitwarden vault can help you understand where credentials are retained.

In this example using collections, the AI Agent was manually given access outside of Bitwarden to HubSpot and the Slack API. Since Bitwarden allows for a single vault item to exist in multiple collections at once, setting up this reference hierarchy won’t interrupt access to shared credentials for other users, and a change in one location will update it in all locations. This grouping of these items makes it easy to log back into the AI agent and provide it updated credentials when they are rotated.

This collection can also be organized in your Bitwarden vault in a nested collection, where it lives alongside other AI agent collections.

Another way to keep track of credentials that AI agents have access to is changing the name of the credential to something descriptive, such as using a common prefix like AGENT - [Project] - [Purpose] - [Credential website].

Alternatively, adding “#agent” to the notes field will have those items that agents have access to appear in search in Password Manager.

For extra separation of AI agent workflows from your Bitwarden organization, you can create a service account that is dedicated to managing AI agents. You can then share the login and master password for this service account in your Bitwarden organization for team access, such as for the IT department. In the service account you will keep logins for each agent and the credentials that the AI agents access in the individual vault or, for organization ownership, in a private collection. Using this method keeps AI agent-related credentials isolated from those that human employees use, and allows for broader teams to better self-manage AI agents without needing to contact IT for every minor task.

Whether you're tracking credentials within your Bitwarden vault, protecting logins to your AI tools, or using the Bitwarden APIs and Secrets Manager for automated credential management, Bitwarden ensures that your AI agent workflows remain secure and manageable. Ready to strengthen security across your AI-driven workflows? Start a free trial of Bitwarden business plans today!