OneCLI vs Infisical

Both keep credentials out of AI agents' hands. They differ on per-request control and where your keys get to live.

Updated Jul 20, 2026

The short version

This is the closest comparison on our list. Infisical's Agent Vault brokers credentials the same way OneCLI does: agents route traffic through a proxy that injects real keys, so they never hold one. The differences are depth and center of gravity. OneCLI is a dedicated product with per-request verdicts (block, approve, rate limit a single call) that pulls keys from the password manager you already use. Agent Vault is Infisical's extension of their secrets platform, strongest when Infisical is already your source of truth. Getting the full picture there means running two products: the broker and the platform behind it. OneCLI ships the whole thing as one.

Credit where it's due: Infisical's Agent Vault gets the core idea right. Placeholder values instead of real keys, agents pointed at a proxy through HTTPS_PROXY, credentials attached to outbound requests at the boundary. That is the same architecture OneCLI runs, and a second serious team building it is good evidence the model is correct: agents should not possess credentials, period.

So this page is not about who has the right idea. It is about what happens after the placeholder: what controls exist at request time, and where your keys are allowed to live.

How they differ

Infisical

The model

Built for

onecli

A dedicated credential gateway for AI agents

Infisical

A secrets management platform; Agent Vault is its agent-facing broker

Same category, different center of gravity: standalone product versus platform extension.

What you deploy

onecli

One product: gateway, credential store, policies, and dashboard in a single install

Infisical

A standalone broker binary with its own UI and local store; rotation, dynamic secrets, and the rest require deploying the Infisical platform alongside

Agent Vault covers the basics on its own. The full pitch spans two products with two setups.

What the agent holds

onecli

A placeholder (onecli-managed). Real keys are injected at the proxy.

Infisical

Dummy values substituted at the proxy, same brokered model

Both get the fundamental thing right. Prompt injection cannot leak a key the agent never had.

Where your keys live

onecli

OneCLI's encrypted store, or your password manager: 1Password and Bitwarden

Infisical

Agent Vault's local store, or the Infisical platform

Their pluggable store points into their platform. OneCLI points at the vaults your team already uses.

Runtime control

Per-request verdicts

onecli

Allow, block, hold for approval, or rate limit each API call

Infisical

Egress filtering: allow or deny access by service and endpoint

Filtering decides what is reachable. Verdicts decide what happens to one specific call: the DELETE, the refund, the third message this minute.

Human-in-the-loop

onecli

Hold an individual request until a human approves it

Infisical

Proposals: humans approve configuration changes (new services and credentials), not individual requests

Approving what an agent may access is setup-time governance. Approving what it is about to do is runtime governance.

Rate limiting

onecli

Per-rule request rate limits

Infisical

Not described in their docs today

A compromised or looping agent is often a volume problem before it is anything else.

Audit trail

onecli

Every proxied request with its policy verdict

Infisical

Request logging on authenticated traffic

Both give you the runtime record a secrets manager alone cannot.

Platform and ecosystem

Secrets platform behind it

onecli

Built-in encrypted store, scoped to orgs, projects, and individual agents, with per-host injection rules. Not a storage platform: no dynamic secrets, syncs, or PKI.

Infisical

Full Infisical platform: dynamic secrets, rotation, syncs, PKI

OneCLI stores what agents need and stops there. If you want one vendor for org-wide secret storage and agent brokering, Infisical's bundle is the draw.

Password manager vaults

onecli

1Password (service accounts, op:// references) and Bitwarden (Agent Access SDK)

Infisical

Not offered; external store support is Infisical itself

For many teams the keys already sit in a password manager. Meeting them there beats migrating them.

OAuth app connections

onecli

Managed apps: one-click connect for Gmail, GitHub, Google Calendar and more. OneCLI hosts the OAuth apps and refreshes tokens at the proxy.

Infisical

Bring your own OAuth app: register with each provider, paste client ID and secret. Auth Code + PKCE with scope suggestions and automatic refresh.

Both refresh tokens at the proxy so agents never see them. The difference is setup: one click, or registering an OAuth app per provider.

Open source

onecli

Open source gateway, plus a cloud dashboard

Infisical

Open source (MIT), with a large community around the platform

Both codebases are auditable. Infisical has the larger community today.

Same architecture, different priorities

Strip the branding and both products are a MITM proxy with a credential store and placeholder substitution. The divergence is in what each team is optimizing. Agent Vault's controls define which services an agent can reach, with human approval when the agent asks to expand that list. OneCLI treats the individual request as the unit of control: the dangerous moment is rarely "the agent can reach Stripe" and usually "the agent is about to POST a refund", so verdicts, holds, and rate limits apply per call.

The second divergence is gravitational. Agent Vault's external store is Infisical, which makes it the natural choice inside an Infisical shop and a platform commitment outside one. OneCLI's vault integrations are the password managers teams already run: 1Password and Bitwarden, with an encrypted server store for everything else.

When to use which

Use Infisical's Agent Vault when

·Infisical is already your secrets platform and you want the agent broker from the same vendor
·You want the proxy backed by platform features like dynamic secrets and rotation
·Service-level egress filtering plus setup-time approvals cover your control needs

Use OneCLI when

·You need per-request control: block destructive calls, hold sensitive ones for a human, rate limit the rest
·Your keys live in 1Password or Bitwarden and should stay there
·You want the agent boundary to be the product: one install, not a broker plus the platform behind it
·You want a cloud dashboard for teams, projects, and per-agent activity out of the box

Common questions

Aren't OneCLI and Agent Vault basically the same thing?

The architecture is the same, and that is a good sign for the category. The differences that matter in practice: OneCLI applies policy per request (including human holds and rate limits) where Agent Vault filters per service, and OneCLI pulls credentials from 1Password and Bitwarden where Agent Vault's external store is the Infisical platform.

Do I need the Infisical platform to use Agent Vault?

Not strictly: Agent Vault's local-store mode brokers credentials on its own. But the things this page credits Infisical for (dynamic secrets, rotation, syncs, the management UI) live in the Infisical platform, so the full solution is two products run together. OneCLI packages the gateway, credential store, policies, and dashboard as one.

Can OneCLI use Infisical as a credential source?

Not natively today. OneCLI's vault integrations are 1Password and Bitwarden; keys managed in Infisical can be added to OneCLI's encrypted server store. If Infisical as a source matters to you, tell us: the vault integration layer is pluggable.

Are Agent Vault's proposals the same as OneCLI's approvals?

No. A proposal asks a human to approve a configuration change: the agent wants access to a new service or credential. A OneCLI approval holds a specific in-flight request (one refund, one delete) until a human allows it. One governs capability, the other governs actions.