cline/arbiter

Path-based policy evaluation engine for PHP

1.0.3 2025-12-06 06:33 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.4.0

Requires (Dev)

• cline/coding-standard: ^1.5.8
• orchestra/testbench: ^10.8
• symfony/var-dumper: ^7.4.0
• symfony/yaml: ^7.4

Suggests

• ext-pdo: Required for DatabaseRepository
• psr/simple-cache: Required for CachedRepository
• symfony/yaml: Required for YamlRepository

MIT

• Brian Faust

• authorization
• acl
• Policy
• permissions
• rbac
• access-control
• path-based

README

A flexible policy-based authorization library for Laravel applications. Arbiter provides path-based access control with support for capabilities, conditions, and context-aware evaluation through an intuitive conductor API.

Requirements

Requires PHP 8.4+ and Laravel 12+

Installation

composer require cline/arbiter

Documentation

• Getting Started - Installation, configuration, and basic concepts
• Policies and Rules - Creating and managing access control policies
• Capabilities - Read, Write, Delete, and Admin capabilities
• Path Patterns - Wildcard matching and path-based access control
• Conditions - Context-aware authorization rules
• Evaluation - Checking permissions and evaluating access
• Advanced Usage - Specificity, repositories, and advanced patterns

Change log

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please use the GitHub security reporting form rather than the issue queue.

Credits

• Brian Faust
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License. Please see License File for more information.