openfga/openfga

A high performance and flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar

SecurityGo#authorization#permissions#security#zanzibar#openfga

2.1 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 24, 2026, 12:27 UTC.

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About the project

OpenFGA is an authorization/permission engine inspired by Google Zanzibar for fine-grained access control. It lets you model permissions as relationship tuples and check them via HTTP/gRPC APIs.

Useful for

Run OpenFGA in Docker with in-memory storage to test an access model locally
Model and test authorization rules in the Playground at localhost:3000
Configure PostgreSQL as storage and deploy the authorization server in production

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

3 stars so far today, about 9 expected by the end of the day.
Over the last two days the pace is 2.3× that of the previous week and a half.
GitHub Trending Go today: #11, +19 stars.
Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (388 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 5,849
Today: 3 · ≈ 9 by evening
Forks: 504
Issues and pull requests: 3,261
Watchers: 38
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.21.0 · September 20, 2026
Created: June 8, 2022
Last push: September 24, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 24, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #11, +19 stars

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