Machine-readable authorization API discovery

Find authorization APIs.

Discover APIs and policy engines for permissions, fine-grained authorization, relationship-based access control and policy decisions.

For agents

ARD: https://authorizationapis.com/.well-known/ard.json
Catalog: https://authorizationapis.com/api/catalog.json
LLM overview: https://authorizationapis.com/llms.txt

Tasks this gateway can help discover

Find APIs for fine-grained application authorization
Find relationship-based authorization APIs similar to Zanzibar
Find policy APIs for RBAC, ABAC or contextual access decisions
Find authorization services suitable for agent or service permissions

Authorization API directory

A curated semantic index of public authorization APIs and policy-engine interfaces. Curated: 2026-09-17.

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Aserto Authorization API

Aserto · Authorization

Authorization APIs and policy services for fine-grained application access control.

AuthorizationPolicyDirectory

OpenAPI: Unknown · Agent actionable: Yes

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AWS Verified Permissions API

AWS · Authorization

Managed fine-grained authorization service using Cedar policies for application permissions.

CedarPolicy evaluationFine-grained authorization

OpenAPI: Unknown · Agent actionable: Yes

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Cerbos PDP API

Cerbos · Authorization

Policy decision point APIs for application authorization and policy checks.

Policy decisionsRBACABAC

OpenAPI: Unknown · Agent actionable: Yes

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Open Policy Agent REST API

Open Policy Agent · Authorization

REST API for policy management, rule evaluation, queries, compilation and health/status operations.

Policy evaluationRegoABACPolicy API

OpenAPI: Unknown · Agent actionable: Yes

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OpenFGA API

OpenFGA · Authorization

API for relationship-based fine-grained authorization models, tuples and access checks.

ReBACAuthorization modelsAccess checks

OpenAPI: Unknown · Agent actionable: Yes

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Oso Cloud API

Oso · Authorization

Authorization service for application permissions and relationship-aware access decisions.

AuthorizationPermissionsRelationships

OpenAPI: Unknown · Agent actionable: Yes

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Permit.io API

Permit.io · Authorization

Authorization platform APIs for policy, users, resources, roles and permission checks.

RBACABACReBACPolicy

OpenAPI: Yes · Agent actionable: Yes

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SpiceDB API

AuthZed · Authorization

Relationship-based authorization service implementing Zanzibar-style permissions with gRPC and HTTP APIs.

ReBACPermissionsRelationships

OpenAPI: Unknown · Agent actionable: Yes

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