openid/authzen
Proposed standard for an Authorization API
Is openid/authzen beginner-friendly?
The maintainers of openid/authzen usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 170
- Forks
- 46
- Open beginner issues
- 4
- Indexed issues
- 82
- Avg merge
- 18h 5m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 43
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- License
- No license data
- Last GitHub push
- Oct 13, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 19, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
openid/authzen#789 · 2 comments ·
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access-requests
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100
openid/authzen#787 · 1 comment ·
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access-requests
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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access-requests
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access-requests
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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authorization-api certification
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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authorization-api certification
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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authorization-api certification
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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authorization-api certification
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
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authorization-api certification
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100
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authorization-api certification
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100
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authorization-api certification
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Certification Scenario §7.2.2, §7.3.2 and §7.4.2: identical results, or identical fixture results?Openauthorization-api certification
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
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authorization-api certification
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authorization-api certification
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Evaluation semanticsOpenauthorization-api certification
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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access-requests
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errata
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100
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authorization-api errata
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100
openid/authzen#748 · 1 comment ·
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oauth-as-profile
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
openid/authzen#743 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·
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access-requests
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100
openid/authzen#733 · 2 comments ·
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Search interop runner compares results as JSON strings, so member order decides PASS/FAILMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100
openid/authzen#693 · 3 comments ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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authorization-api
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
openid/authzen#656 · 1 comment ·
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Agent context profile: proposed property names for principal, delegation chain and attestation stateOpencoaz
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
openid/authzen#655 · 1 comment ·
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certification
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100
openid/authzen#641 · 2 comments ·
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certification
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100
openid/authzen#640 · 1 comment ·
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access-requests
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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access-requests
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
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IANA registrationsMay be free again @tulshi claimed this 94 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openauthorization-api
openid/authzen#597 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·
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access-requests
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100
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access-requests
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
openid/authzen#578 · 3 comments ·
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policy-store
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
openid/authzen#542 · 14 comments · 1 reaction ·
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advice-obligations-constraints
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
openid/authzen#521 · 4 comments ·
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access-requests
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
openid/authzen#520 · 6 comments ·
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What about autonomous use cases, where the agent is running without a user principal?May be free again @tulshi claimed this 45 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opencoaz
openid/authzen#483 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
openid/authzen#456 · 2 comments ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
openid/authzen#416 · 4 comments ·
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Certification Scenario Batch cases 6.2.1 and 6.2.6: may the harness check the fixture decision they contain?Possibly taken @alexolivier claimed this 3 days ago. Openauthorization-api certification
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
openid/authzen#773 · 1 comment ·
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Must a PDP echo X-Request-ID on error responses?Possibly taken @alexolivier claimed this 3 days ago. Openauthorization-api certification
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100
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An endpoint missing from the PDP metadata: "not capable", or use the default path?Possibly taken @alexolivier claimed this 3 days ago. Openauthorization-api certification
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100
openid/authzen#768 · 1 comment ·
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