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Designs and validates RBAC (Role-Based) and ABAC (Attribute-Based) access control policies, generates policy code, and audits existing authorization logic.

By AuthZ Skills 1,820 stars v1.3.0 Updated 2026-03-10
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About This Skill

Access Control is a skill for designing, implementing, and auditing authorization systems. It supports both Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) patterns, generating policy code for frameworks like OPA, Casbin, and native middleware in Express, Django, and Spring Boot.

How It Works

  1. Requirements analysis — Maps your user types, resources, and operations into a permission matrix
  2. Pattern selection — Recommends RBAC, ABAC, or hybrid based on complexity and granularity needs
  3. Policy generation — Produces authorization code, middleware, or policy files (OPA Rego, Casbin model/policy)
  4. Audit analysis — Reviews existing authorization logic for missing checks, bypass paths, and IDOR vulnerabilities
  5. Test generation — Creates test cases covering permission boundaries and edge cases

Best For

  • Multi-tenant SaaS applications with complex role hierarchies
  • API authorization design for microservices
  • Migrating from ad-hoc permission checks to structured RBAC/ABAC
  • Auditing existing code for broken access control (OWASP A01)

Supported Frameworks

Generates policies for OPA/Rego, Casbin, AWS IAM, PostgreSQL RLS, Supabase RLS, Express middleware, Django permissions, and Spring Security.

Use Cases

  • Design RBAC role hierarchy for multi-tenant SaaS applications
  • Generate OPA (Open Policy Agent) Rego policies from requirements
  • Audit existing authorization middleware for privilege escalation paths
  • Create row-level security policies for database access

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Supports both RBAC and ABAC with hybrid patterns
  • +Generates test cases for permission boundary verification
  • +Multi-framework support from OPA to database RLS

Cons

  • -Complex ABAC policies may need manual fine-tuning
  • -Cannot validate policies against live user directories

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FAQ

What does Access Control do?
Designs and validates RBAC (Role-Based) and ABAC (Attribute-Based) access control policies, generates policy code, and audits existing authorization logic.
What platforms support Access Control?
Access Control is available on Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI.
What are the use cases for Access Control?
Design RBAC role hierarchy for multi-tenant SaaS applications. Generate OPA (Open Policy Agent) Rego policies from requirements. Audit existing authorization middleware for privilege escalation paths.
What tools work with Access Control?
Access Control works well with Snyk.

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