Cerbos Authorization Pdp

---
name: "Cerbos Open Source Authorization Policy Decision Point"
slug: "cerbos-authorization-pdp"
description: "Cerbos is an open-core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes implementing and managing user permissions simple. It uses context-aware YAML access control policies managed through Git-ops, providing high-availability APIs for dynamic access decisions across applications."
github_stars: 4319
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos"
author: "cerbos"
category: "Security & Verification"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "cerbos/cerbos"
  github_stars: 4319
  npm_package: "cerbos"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 1035
---

# Cerbos Open Source Authorization Policy Decision Point

Cerbos is an open-core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes implementing and managing user permissions simple. It uses context-aware YAML access control policies managed through Git-ops, providing high-availability APIs for dynamic access decisions across applications.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [Python](https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos-sdk-python)

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Get up and running quickly with our [quickstart](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/quickstart.html), or build an example implementation in our [tutorial](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/tutorial/00_intro.html)
- See [example policies and requests](#examples)
- [Container](https://docs.cerbos.dev/cerbos/latest/installation/container.html)

- Source: https://github.com/cerbos/cerbos
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cerbos/cerbos/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/cerbos-authorization-pdp/)