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The most scalable and customizable permission server on the market. Fix your slow or broken permission system with Google's proven "Zanzibar" approach. Supports ACL, RBAC, and more. Written in Go, cloud native, headless, API-first. Available as a service on Ory Network and for self-hosters.

Stars: 5.4k
Forks: 388
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 46

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Jul 29, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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46 open issues indexed

upstream reference closed: github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/47 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ory/keto#1843 · Opened May 27, 2026
upstream reference closed: github.com/knadh/koanf/issues/77 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

ory/keto#1845 · Opened May 27, 2026
upstream reference closed: github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/199 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

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

ory/keto#1842 · Opened May 27, 2026
upstream reference closed: github.com/evanphx/json-patch/pull/158 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

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

ory/keto#1844 · Opened May 27, 2026
upstream reference closed: github.com/gobuffalo/fizz/issues/45 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

ory/keto#1846 · Opened May 27, 2026
Latest proto submodule unreleased/tagged Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1841 · Opened Apr 20, 2026
upstream reference closed: github.com/knadh/koanf/pull/47 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ory/keto#1817 · Opened Dec 20, 2025
upstream reference closed: github.com/evanphx/json-patch/pull/158 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

ory/keto#1816 · Opened Dec 20, 2025
upstream reference closed: github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/199 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

ory/keto#1818 · Opened Dec 20, 2025
upstream reference closed: github.com/gobuffalo/fizz/issues/45 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

ory/keto#1820 · Opened Dec 20, 2025
upstream reference closed: github.com/knadh/koanf/issues/77 Open

good first issue help wanted upstream

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

ory/keto#1819 · Opened Dec 20, 2025
High load on ORY Keto database with increased RPS on permission checking (self-hosted) Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1783 · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Expoing Ory Permission Language as a library Open

feat

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

ory/keto#1774 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2025
Recursive check does not properly resolve Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ory/keto#1746 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 8, 2025
intermittent connection reset by peer errors when using neon.tech Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1706 · Opened Mar 1, 2025
`checkOplSyntax` command for CI/CD and easy DX Open

feat

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

ory/keto#1860 · Opened Feb 10, 2025
The gRPC API does not allow us to delete relation tuples in bulk when Subject is not specified Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1615 · Opened Oct 30, 2024
Prometheus metrics not working Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

ory/keto#1611 · Opened Oct 28, 2024
Behaviour varies between /relation-tuples/check/openapi and /relation-tuples/check Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1596 · Opened Oct 7, 2024
migrate fail at `ALTER TABLE keto_uuid_mappings DROP CONSTRAINT keto_uuid_mappings_chk_1` Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

ory/keto#1587 · Opened Sep 20, 2024
keto CLI relation-tuple create executed repeatly Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ory/keto#1566 · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Deleting a namespace makes relationships referencing it undeletable Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ory/keto#1535 · Opened Jul 2, 2024
@ory/keto - Latest image - Blocker Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ory/keto#1528 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 18, 2024
Poor query performance as traversal width increases Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1519 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2024
Self-hosting keto returns "404 Page Not Found" when running a permission check Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

ory/keto#1510 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2024
Keto CLI cannot communicate with the containers Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ory/keto#1503 · Opened Jan 11, 2024
Does the object support the expression like '/cats/*' to indicate all items starts with '/cats/' Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ory/keto#1484 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 14, 2023
Empty relation on a subset doesn't work as wildcard after upgrading to v0.11.1 Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1479 · Opened Dec 8, 2023
User incorrectly granted access due to an invalid relationship Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1452 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 17, 2023
Problem with arbitrary relations Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1337 · Opened Jun 7, 2023
OPL traverse.(...) not working Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1330 · 14 comments · Opened May 22, 2023
Client typescript errors Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ory/keto#1317 · Opened Apr 24, 2023
Parser: OR in traverse not allowed Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ory/keto#1250 · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 21, 2023
Compare `this` with `ctx.subject` Open

effort/medium feat help wanted

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

ory/keto#1204 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 24, 2023
Errors in memory dsn Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1159 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 5, 2022
OPL: nested traverse are not allowed Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ory/keto#1131 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 14, 2022
relation-tuples/check always requires a subject_set.relation Open

bug

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

ory/keto#1124 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2022
Debug mode for check requests Open

feat

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

ory/keto#1093 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2022
couldn't start a new transaction: could not create new transaction write: broken pipe Open

bug

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

ory/keto#885 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2022
Keto is returning 200 OK on expand HTTP API on non existing resource Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ory/keto#855 · Opened Mar 15, 2022
Multiplexing HTTP and gRPC with cmux does not work with Istio Open

bug

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

ory/keto#854 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2022
Keto for UI permissions Open

feat rfc

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

ory/keto#689 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 6, 2021
Expand API behaves weirdly when no object is specified Open

bug corp/m8

ory/keto#608 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 26, 2021
Provide Consistency Guarantees using Snapshot Tokens Open

feat rfc

ory/keto#517 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2021
Distributed cache: loading and coordination Open

corp/m6 rfc

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

ory/keto#312 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 13, 2020
Storage configuration per namespace Open

blocking corp/m6 feat

ory/keto#303 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 10, 2020

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