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goauthentik/authentik

The authentication glue you need.

AI dev

Stack

Python Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-11
History: 36 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,247 open

22,499

stars

Forks: 1,713
Commits: 23,237 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +97 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +94 +0.4%

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: 2026-07-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-16
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 1,101 open

14,534

stars

Forks: 1,197
Commits: 4,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-07-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-07-25
History: 6 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 171 open

14,128

stars

Forks: 1,026
Commits: 8,809 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 PEP 517 pip uv

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-08
History: 35 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 158 open

11,958

stars

Forks: 953
Commits: 250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.1%
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: 2026-06-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 92 open

5,687

stars

Forks: 635
Commits: 1,352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-07-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

5,512

stars

Forks: 1,080
Commits: 2,725 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-09
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 58 open

5,488

stars

Forks: 288
Commits: 2,085 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cerbos/cerbos

Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#access-control #authorization #go #golang #kubernetes #policy

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-31
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

4,502

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 2,625 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: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-19
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 115 open

2,974

stars

Forks: 519
Commits: 1,838 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: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-22
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

2,180

stars

Forks: 627
Commits: 1,858 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

1,979

stars

Forks: 152
Commits: 219 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-03-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,559

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 575 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 24 open

1,336

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

779

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-20
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 32 open

698

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 2,524 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

466

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 73 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

335

stars

Forks: 37
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

190

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-07-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-05-03
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 18 open

105

stars

Forks: 134
Commits: 470 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: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 868 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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