Robinhood lets AI agents trade shares and make credit card purchases for customers

Robinhood is testing a beta feature that lets AI agents connect to separate brokerage accounts through MCP, read portfolio data, and place stock trades on a user’s behalf.

The company says future support is planned for options, crypto, and event contracts, and a related setup can let agents make limited purchases with a virtual Robinhood credit card.

Robinhood says users are still responsible for every trade and can disconnect the agent at any time.

FINRA has warned that AI agents create new supervision, compliance, and financial-risk concerns for brokerages.