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Playgrounds and Policy Editors

Videos

Deploy and Run Cedar

  • Amazon Verified Permissions

    Managed AWS service for storing Cedar policies and evaluating authorization requests at scale. :moneybag:

  • Cedarling

    Linux Foundation Janssen Project governed embeddable PDP powered by the Cedar Rust engine. Offers 10 language

  • Cedarling-sidecar

    OpenID

  • cedar-local-agent

    Official Rust crate for running a local decision point with file-backed policy and entity providers that reload on change. :office:

  • Cedrus

    REST API server for Cedar Policy authorization, designed for internal infrastructure. It provides a multi-tenant authorization service.

  • Opal

    Policy and data administration, distribution, and real-time updates on top of Policy Agents.

Examples and Reference Applications

Language and Platform Integrations

  • authorization-for-expressjsFramework and Platform Integrations

    Official Express middleware that enforces Cedar policies on HTTP routes. :office:

  • cedar-authorizationOfficial Bindings

    TypeScript authorization primitives for building Cedar-backed enforcement points. :office:

  • cedar-for-agentsFramework and Platform Integrations

    Official exploration of Cedar for authorizing AI agents and their tool calls. :office:

  • Cedar for KubernetesFramework and Platform Integrations

    Authorize and admit Kubernetes API requests with Cedar policies. :office:

  • cedar-goOfficial Bindings

    Native Go implementation of Cedar, with no CGO or WASM required. :office:

  • cedar-javaOfficial Bindings

    Java bindings for the Cedar engine. :office:

Books

  • Authorization in Action2026

    by Phil Windley - The book uses Cedar to explain the concepts of authorization and also as a practical implementation. Great book to get started with authorization in general.

Tools

  • Cedar Analysis (SymCC)

    Symbolic compiler that translates policies to SMT, so you can prove equivalence, subsumption, disjointness and never-errors properties. The analysis itself is verified in Lean. :office:

  • cedar-policy-cli

    Official command-line tool to validate, format, translate and evaluate Cedar policies. :office:

  • cedar-policy-formatter

    Official formatter library for Cedar policy source. :office:

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