This project is a unified, cloud-native policy engine designed to decouple authorization and security logic from application codebases. It functions as a centralized authorization service that evaluates structured input data against declarative rules, enabling consistent policy enforcement across microservices, infrastructure, and continuous integration pipelines.
The engine utilizes a specialized logic programming language to express complex constraints, which are compiled into an optimized intermediate representation for high-performance evaluation. By supporting both sidecar-based deployment and direct library embedding, it allows for local, low-latency policy checks. The system further distinguishes itself through bundle-based distribution, which synchronizes versioned policy sets across distributed instances to maintain a consistent authorization state at scale.
Beyond core evaluation, the platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools for the entire policy lifecycle, including development assistance, linting, testing, and partial evaluation for portable logic execution. It also features robust observability capabilities, such as query execution tracing, performance metrics reporting, and request provenance verification, to ensure transparency and auditability in decision-making.
The engine exposes a programmable HTTP interface for real-time authorization queries and supports dynamic data injection to facilitate context-aware decision-making.
