Robinhood introduces a new feature that lets clients link AI agents like Anthropic's Claude or Cursor to a separate investment account.
The connection works through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets AI agents use external services and act on a user's behalf. The agent can read account value, buying power, positions, balances, and order history—and buy and sell stocks on its own.
Users could, for example, tell the agent to spot concentration risks in a portfolio, watch promising stocks, or automatically buy more shares when prices drop. The current beta only supports stock trading. Options, crypto, and event contracts are supposed to follow.
Robinhood shows example prompts for its agentic trading feature: users can ask AI agents to build portfolios, automate trading strategies, rebalance allocations, analyze risks, and review market data. "Just make money" isn't on the list yet. | Image: Robinhood
Customers get a push notification for every trade and can disconnect the agent at any time. Robinhood makes clear, though, that users are on the hook for all trades, even if the agent pulls the trigger without asking first.
