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mohamedhekal/guardrail
======================

Team-scoped roles, abilities, and audited impersonation for Laravel SaaS

v0.1.0(1mo ago)00MITPHPPHP ^8.2CI passing

Since Jul 16Pushed 1mo agoCompare

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GuardRail
=========

[](#guardrail)

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**Search terms:** laravel, permissions, roles, teams, impersonation, saas, acl, php, laravel-package, rbac, authorization, access-control.

Team-scoped roles, abilities, and audited impersonation for Laravel SaaS—focused on the patterns Spatie-style packages often leave to the app.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require mohamedhekal/guardrail
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=guardrail-config
php artisan migrate
```

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

```
use Hekal\GuardRail\Concerns\HasGuardRail;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasGuardRail;
}
```

Roles & abilities
---------------------

[](#roles--abilities)

```
use Hekal\GuardRail\Facades\GuardRail;

$team = GuardRail::createTeam('Acme', 'acme');
GuardRail::createAbility('Edit orders', 'orders.edit');
GuardRail::createRole('Editor', $team, ['orders.edit'], 'editor');

GuardRail::assignRole($user, 'editor', $team);
GuardRail::can($user, 'orders.edit', $team); // true
```

Middleware:

```
Route::middleware('guardrail.ability:orders.edit,acme')->group(...);
```

Impersonation
-------------

[](#impersonation)

```
GuardRail::startImpersonation($admin, $customer, reason: 'ticket #12', ttlMinutes: 30);
// switch auth in the host app using the target user
GuardRail::stopImpersonation(); // writes ended_at + clears session markers
```

Limitations (v0.1)
------------------

[](#limitations-v01)

- No ABAC / policy codegen
- Global ability check (no team) matches any team assignment that grants it
- Host app must perform the actual Auth::login during impersonation

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
composer install && composer test
```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 74% of packages

Maintenance90

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity0

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity36

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

45d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a9d7c092a109fe780c7efd87ce4142eae2c0cec0f92fd1e87e769bec5661953b?d=identicon)[mohamedhekal](/maintainers/mohamedhekal)

---

Top Contributors

[![mohamedhekal](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/21014387?v=4)](https://github.com/mohamedhekal "mohamedhekal (4 commits)")

---

Tags

laravellaravel-packagepermissionsphprbacsaasphplaravelimpersonationlaravel-packageauthorizationaclrolespermissionsrbacsaasaccess-controlTeams

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StyleLaravel Pint

Type Coverage Yes

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![Health badge](/badges/mohamedhekal-guardrail/health.svg)

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