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Top PERMISSIONS GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

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#1 TRENDING openfga/openfga Go 2022

A high performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar

◇ abac ◇ authorization ◇ entitlements ◇ fga

506 ↑ +5 today

5.9K

#2 TRENDING cerbos/cerbos Go 2021

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

◇ abac ◇ access-control ◇ authorization ◇ authz

213 ↑ +5 today

4.6K

#3 TRENDING php-casbin/laravel-authz PHP 2019

An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Laravel.

◇ abac ◇ access-control ◇ acl ◇ authorization

55 ↑ +1 today

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