open-policy-agent/opa

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Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

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Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 295
Avg merge: 1d 58m
Merged PRs (30d): 139

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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295 open issues indexed

Partial evaluation of rules with else Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9238 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Make the `v2` package the default for CMD Open

runtime

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9227 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Create OPA 2.0 documentation Open

docs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9226 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Add `v2` Go package Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9225 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Add `rego.v2` directive `import` Open

authoring

open-policy-agent/opa#9224 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Migrate to use json/v2 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9200 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
config: support reloading config.yaml via fsnotify watcher Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9184 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 9, 2026
make `*ast.Compiler` context-aware Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9088 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Add ML-DSA (RFC9881) signature support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9085 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Same var bound in `some .. in` shouldn't be allowed in same `some .. in` expression Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9052 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
allow_net does not restrict file:// $refs in schema built-ins Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#9000 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
docs: Link Checker Report Open

automated issue report

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8960 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Bundle plugin: O(n²) compilation cost during initial multi-bundle activation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8911 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 20, 2026
repl: bracketed paste of multi-rule policies fails when rules reference each other Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8896 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Support basic expression evaluation in debug session Open

debugging

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8893 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Allow more breakpoint types Open

debugging

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8892 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Unexpected `in` vs `==` operator precedence Open

rego

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8859 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2026
Warp errors instead of embedding error messages Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8856 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 3, 2026
docs: add "AI Agent Policy Enforcement" use case guide Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8851 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 2, 2026
fmt: allow early exit on fail condition Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8841 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
cover: Extend not_covered reporting with reasons Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8813 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 23, 2026
server: opt-in load-aware health and backpressure signals Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8772 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2026
decision_logs: Rework `nd_builtins_cache` format. Deprecate old format. Open

breaking

open-policy-agent/opa#8750 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Extend CLI with filtering command Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8741 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2026
and/or keywords: partial-eval optimizations Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8680 · Opened May 20, 2026
Planner/IR: carry metadata labels through to the intermediate representation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8644 · Opened May 12, 2026
docs: Link Checker Report Open

automated issue report

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8591 · Opened May 1, 2026
It's not possible to enforce signature verification and use multiple keys Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8531 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2026
topdown/http: limit response body size in http.send Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8480 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2026
Cannot run OPA image in user namespace on GKE Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8445 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2026
docs: Ensure we help where possible during LLM-supported Rego learning Open

docs website

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8426 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Mar 16, 2026
SLSA Build L3 Compliance Task List Open

project

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8364 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 23, 2026
build: Create an OPA bot account or GH App Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8340 · 10 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 18, 2026
server: Add configuration for HTTP/2 MaxConcurrentStreams when h2c is enabled Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8330 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2026
inmem: Truncate method doesn't take AST store into account Open

performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8321 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 13, 2026
docs: Improve Partial Evaluation page with motivation and practical examples Open

docs partial-eval

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8316 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2026
config: Support loading of discovery bundle signature verification key from file Open

distribution

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8308 · Opened Feb 9, 2026
perf: allow passing metadata from parser to compiler Open

performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8269 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Migration from v0.x to v1.x made policy evaluation significantly slower Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8266 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2026
compile: recursion check fails on non-recursive ref Open

rego

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8255 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Allow OPA compiler state to be saved and restored Open

design performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8254 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 27, 2026
oracle: add function to find all definitions Open

oracle

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8247 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
oracle: allow go to definition on imports Open

oracle

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8246 · Opened Jan 22, 2026
Messy parser errors from template string issues Open

rego usability

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8243 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2026
feat: Memory optimization for large in-memory datasets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8240 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Allow excluding code from being benchmarked Open

design

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8236 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2026
Reduce memory usage in v1/storage/inmem through lazy policy compression Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8229 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 16, 2026
Expose Go API for `opa bench` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8225 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Exporting decision logs to otel collector Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8214 · 11 comments · Opened Jan 13, 2026
Skip compiler rewriting template string refs known to be defined Open

optimization rego

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

open-policy-agent/opa#8160 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 25, 2025

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