Oso is an authorization-as-a-service platform that helps engineering teams implement and manage fine-grained access control for their applications, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. It provides a declarative policy language (Polar) to define authorization logic and offers SDKs for various programming languages to integrate and enforce permissions. Oso can be deployed in the cloud or self-hosted, and it focuses on centralizing and scaling authorization decisions.
Rationale
Oso is an authorization-as-a-service platform that allows developers to define and enforce fine-grained access control across applications, RAG pipelines, and AI agents. It provides a flexible DSL (Polar) for defining authorization logic, integrates with various data sources and APIs, and offers SDKs for multiple languages. While it doesn't directly offer a drag-and-drop UI builder or prebuilt React components for general internal tools, its core offering aligns strongly with the authorization and integration aspects of the Retool concept. The platform explicitly supports API & Database Integrations, Code Customization (via Polar DSL and SDKs), Access Control & Security (its primary function), Flexible Deployments (cloud or self-hosted), Debugging & Monitoring (troubleshooting tools, logs), Version Control Integration (CI/CD, Git-based workflows), and AI & LLM Integration (permissions for AI-native apps, RAG, agents).
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