Robinhood opens its trading platform to AI agents, letting them buy and sell stocks with user-specified amounts of money

Robinhood announced Wednesday that traders can create a separate account for an AI agent, add a specific amount of money, and allow the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market. The feature is pitched as a way to automate investment decisions, such as monitoring specific industries or rebalancing portfolios.

Users receive push notifications each time their AI agent makes a trade, can view a real-time activity feed in the app, and can pause AI trades at any time. AI agents connect to the platform through the model context protocol (MCP), an open standard that connects AI systems to apps and data. The feature is rolling out in beta with support for equities, with plans to expand to options, cryptocurrency, event contracts, and futures.

Robinhood warns that agentic trading involves significant risk, including possible loss of the entire investment, and that it does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of any agent output or accept responsibility for losses from agent-generated decisions.

Robinhood Gold Card customers will also be able to connect an AI-powered agent to a virtual credit card, choosing how much money the agent can access and what to shop for. Users can opt in to manually approve each credit card purchase, and agents will preview trades when appropriate.