cedar-awesome
github.com/cedar-policy/cedar-awesome ↗A curated list of awesome Cedar related tools and articles.
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Playgrounds and Policy Editors
- AgamaLab policy designer
- cedarling.dev
- Cedar Playground
Write policies and evaluate authorization requests in the browser, no install required. :office:
- OpenPARC Playground
Videos
- Agentic Authorization with Cedar Sarah Cecchetti2026
- Amazon's Cedar Open Source Strategy with Ricardo Sueiras and Julian Lovelock2024
Discussion with Ricardo Sueiras and Julian Lovelock
- AWS On Air - featuring Open Source Security at AWS2023
Includes a discussion of Cedar and a demo.
- AWS re:Invent 2022 - Use policies to manage permissions2022
The session that introduced Verified Permissions and Cedar.
- Cedar analysis toolkit2025
Discussion with Spencer Erickson and Liana Hadarean
- Cedar Gets Temporal: Meet Dogwood (with Marc Brooker)2026
Blogs and Articles
- A Gentle Introduction to Automated Reasoning2021
- All About Cedar, an Open Source Solution for Fine-Tuning Kubernetes Authorization2025
Deep dive on the Kubernetes integration.
- A Policy-Aware Agent Loop with Cedar and OpenClaw2026
- Authorization Before Retrieval: Making RAG Safe by Construction2026
- AWS Verified Permissions and Cedar Policy Language Complete Guide2026
A long-form reference covering the language and the managed service.
- Beyond Denial: Using Policy Constraints to Guide OpenClaw Planning2026
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
- ASP.NET Core authorization provider
Custom ASP.NET Core authorization policy provider backed by Verified Permissions. :office:
- AuthZEN interface for Verified Permissions
Reference implementation connecting the OpenID AuthZEN protocol to Amazon Verified Permissions. :office:
- cedar-examples
Official examples, including the TinyTodo tutorial application. :office:
- Learn to deploy embaddable Cedar PDP
Tutorials and learning path for the Cedarling PDP :zap:
- RBAC to PBAC migration sample
Worked example of migrating from role-based to policy-based authorization. :office:
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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