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goauthentik/authentik

The authentication glue you need.

AI dev

Stack

Python Axum Cobra Django Django REST Framework Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #authentik #authorization #kubernetes #oauth2 #oauth2-client

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-11
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,069 open

25,423

stars

Forks: 2,003
Commits: 24,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zitadel/zitadel

ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you.

AI dev

Stack

Go Angular Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#2fa #authentication #authorization #fido2 #fips-140-3 #identity

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-16
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 1,257 open

15,208

stars

Forks: 1,349
Commits: 4,642 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

logto-io/logto

🧑‍🚀 Authentication and authorization infrastructure for SaaS and AI apps, built on OIDC and OAuth 2.1 with multi-tenancy, SSO, and RBAC.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript React Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #email #identity #jwt #login

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-07-25
History: 8 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 183 open

14,563

stars

Forks: 1,203
Commits: 9,067 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tadata-org/fastapi_mcp

Expose your FastAPI endpoints as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, with Auth!

Stack

Python FastAPI pytest Starlette pip uv

GitHub topics

#ai #authentication #authorization #claude #cursor #fastapi

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-08
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 172 open

12,023

stars

Forks: 969
Commits: 250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

stalniy/casl

CASL is an isomorphic authorization JavaScript library which restricts what resources a given user is allowed to access

Stack

TypeScript Angular React Vite Vue npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#acl #authorization #cancan #casl #isomorphic-javascript #permissions

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-18
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

7,098

stars

Forks: 302
Commits: 1,872 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

CanCanCommunity/cancancan

The authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.

Stack

Ruby Vite Vue Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#authorization #cancancan #rails

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 92 open

5,682

stars

Forks: 629
Commits: 1,353 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #doorkeeper #grape #identity #oauth

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

5,523

stars

Forks: 1,077
Commits: 2,880 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

permitio/opal

Policy and data administration, distribution, and real-time updates on top of Policy Agents (OPA, Cedar, ...)

Stack

Python pytest React pip pnpm

GitHub topics

#authorization #cedar #hacktoberfest #microservices #opa #opal

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-09
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 67 open

5,514

stars

Forks: 301
Commits: 2,089 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cerbos/cerbos

Cerbos is an open-core authorization management platform for authorizing every identity and governing every action across applications, gateways, workloads, and AI agents.

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#abac #access-control #authorization #authz #authzen #entitlements

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

4,609

stars

Forks: 215
Commits: 2,728 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simov/grant

OAuth Proxy

Stack

JavaScript Express Fastify npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #aws #aws-lambda #azure #express

Updated: 2025-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-22
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

4,164

stars

Forks: 270
Commits: 1,194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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thephpleague/oauth2-client

Easy integration with OAuth 2.0 service providers.

Stack

PHP Bundler Composer

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #oauth #oauth2 #php #sso

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-29
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

3,820

stars

Forks: 769
Commits: 1,245 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

oauthlib/oauthlib

A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #identity #jwt-authentication #jwt-bearer-tokens #library

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-19
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 126 open

2,985

stars

Forks: 534
Commits: 1,854 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/casbin-node-casbin

An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Node.js and Browser

Stack

TypeScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#abac #access-control #acl #auth #authorization #authz

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-15
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

2,921

stars

Forks: 231
Commits: 747 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ruby-oauth/oauth2

🔐 oauth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0, & 2.1 Authorization Frameworks, including OpenID Connect (OIDC)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #oauth2 #oauth2-client #oidc #oidc-client

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-22
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

2,180

stars

Forks: 627
Commits: 1,885 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dfunckt/django-rules

Awesome Django authorization, without the database

Stack

Python Django PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#authorization #django #permissions #predicates #python #rules

Updated: 2025-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-06
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

1,975

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 219 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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palkan/action_policy

Authorization framework for Ruby/Rails applications

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Astro Express React Ruby on Rails Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#authorization #hacktoberfest #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-12
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,563

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

warrant-dev/warrant

Warrant is a highly scalable, centralized authorization service based on Google Zanzibar. Use it to define, enforce, query, and audit application authorization and access control.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#abac #access-control #acl #authorization #authz #ciam

Updated: 2025-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-16
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

1,338

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

northpolesec/santa

A binary and file access authorization system for macOS.

Stack

Objective-C++ React Tailwind CSS Vite pnpm

GitHub topics

#allowlist #authorization #blocklist #endpoint-security #macos #santa

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-20
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 33 open

796

stars

Forks: 60
Commits: 2,625 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chaps-io/access-granted

Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails (and not only Rails!)

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#access-control #authorization #cancan #permissions #rails #ruby

Updated: 2024-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

778

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

exAspArk/graphql-guard

Simple authorization gem for GraphQL :lock:

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authorization #cancancan #gem #graphql #graphql-ruby #guard

Updated: 2022-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

466

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 73 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

makandra/consul

Scope-based authorization for Ruby on Rails.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authorization #rails

Updated: 2026-03-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

335

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

enjaku4/rabarber

Simple role-based authorization library for Ruby on Rails

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authorization #gem #multitenancy #rails #rbac #roles

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

189

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 675 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Abblix/Oidc.Server

Flexible OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 server-side implementation for modern ASP.NET projects

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#abblix #authentication #authorization #ciba #federated-access #id-token

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-05-03
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

110

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 744 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tenuo-ai/tenuo

Task-scoped authorization for AI agents. Cryptographic warrants constrain tools and arguments, prevent privilege escalation at every delegation hop, and produce signed evidence of what was allowed or denied.

Stack

Rust Axum Express FastAPI LangChain Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#a2a #access-control #agent-security #agents #ai-agents #authorization

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-27
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 92 open

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 879 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bkuhlmann/auther

A multi-account, form-based, database-less, application-wide, Rails authenticator.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #engine #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-05-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 868 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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