Authmatrix

pip install cognis-authmatrix
authmatrix scan .            # → prioritized findings in seconds

🔎 Example output

Real, reproducible output from the tool — runs offline:

$ authmatrix-emit --version
authmatrix 0.1.0

$ authmatrix-emit --help
usage: authmatrix [-h] [--version] {scan} ...

Test a role x endpoint access-control matrix for authorization gaps (IDOR /
over-permission). Defensive / authorized use only.

positional arguments:
  {scan}
    scan      Analyze a matrix JSON artifact and report authorization gaps.

options:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --version   show program's version number and exit

Blocks above are real authmatrix output — reproduce them from a clone.

Sample result format (illustrative values — run on your own data for real findings):

{
"timestamp": "2023-02-15T14:30:00Z",
"actor": {
"name": "Alice",
"email": "[email protected]"
},
"verb": "created",
"object": {
"type": "indicator",
"id": "i-1234567890abcdef",
"name": "Suspicious Domain",
"description": "A domain known to be used by attackers",
"confidence": 90
}
}

Usage — step by step

1. Install the CLI (console script authmatrix):

   pip install cognis-authmatrix
   

2. Scan a role × endpoint matrix JSON for authorization gaps (IDOR / over-permission):

   authmatrix scan matrix.json
   

3. Read the result as machine-readable JSON, or pipe a matrix in on stdin:

   authmatrix scan matrix.json --format json
   cat matrix.json | authmatrix scan -
   

4. Gate on severity — --fail-on sets the minimum severity that triggers a non-zero exit:

   authmatrix scan matrix.json --fail-on high   # exit 1 only on high/critical
   

5. Automate in CI — fail the pipeline when authz gaps appear:

   - run: pip install cognis-authmatrix
   - run: authmatrix scan matrix.json --format json --fail-on high
   

Contents

• Why authmatrix? · Features · Quick start · Example · Architecture · AI stack · How it compares · Integrations · Install anywhere · Related · Contributing

Why authmatrix?

authz coverage

authmatrix is single-purpose, scriptable, and self-hostable: point it at a target, get prioritized results in the format your workflow already speaks (table · JSON · SARIF), gate CI on it, and let agents drive it over MCP.

Features

• ✅ Load Matrix
• ✅ Analyze
• ✅ Summarize
• ✅ Runs on Linux/macOS/Windows · Docker · devcontainer
• ✅ Ports in Python, JavaScript, Go, and Rust (ports/)

Quick start

pip install cognis-authmatrix
authmatrix --version
authmatrix scan .                       # scan current project
authmatrix scan . --format json         # machine-readable
authmatrix scan . --fail-on high        # CI gate (non-zero exit)

Example

$ authmatrix scan .
  [HIGH    ] AUT-001  example finding             (./src/app.py)
  [MEDIUM  ] AUT-002  another signal              (./config.yaml)

  2 findings · risk score 5 · 38ms

Architecture

flowchart LR
  IN[input] --> P[authmatrix<br/>analyze + score]
  P --> OUT[report]

Use it from any AI stack

authmatrix is interoperable with every popular way of using AI:

• MCP server — authmatrix mcp (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cognis.Studio, uncensored-fleet)
• OpenAI-compatible / JSON — pipe authmatrix scan . --format json into any agent or LLM
• LangChain · CrewAI · AutoGen · LlamaIndex — wrap the CLI/JSON as a tool in one line
• CI / scripts — exit codes + SARIF for non-AI pipelines

How it compares

	Cognis authmatrix	AuthMatrix
Self-hostable, no account	✅	varies
Single command, zero config	✅	⚠️
JSON + SARIF for CI	✅	varies
MCP-native (AI agents)	✅	❌
Polyglot ports (JS/Go/Rust)	✅	❌
Open license	✅ COCL	varies

Built in the spirit of AuthMatrix, re-framed the Cognis way. Missing a credit? Open a PR.

Integrations

Pipes into your stack: SARIF for code-scanning, JSON for anything, an MCP server (authmatrix mcp) for AI agents, and a webhook forwarder for SIEM/Slack/Jira. See docs/INTEGRATIONS.md.

Install — every way, every platform

pip install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/authmatrix.git"    # pip (works today)
pipx install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/authmatrix.git"   # isolated CLI
uv tool install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/authmatrix.git" # uv
pip install cognis-authmatrix                                          # PyPI (when published)
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cognis-digital/authmatrix:latest --help        # Docker
brew install cognis-digital/tap/authmatrix                             # Homebrew tap
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cognis-digital/authmatrix/main/install.sh | sh

Linux	macOS	Windows	Docker	Cloud
scripts/setup-linux.sh	scripts/setup-macos.sh	scripts/setup-windows.ps1	docker run ghcr.io/cognis-digital/authmatrix	DEPLOY.md (AWS/Azure/GCP/k8s)

Related Cognis tools

• portfan — Summarize and diff nmap XML into prioritized, attackable findings
• subhunt — Aggregate & dedupe subdomain enumeration from multiple sources
• dirsight — Analyze web content-discovery output (ffuf/gobuster) into ranked endpoints
• jwtinspect — Decode JWTs and lint for alg=none, weak secrets, and missing claims
• corsaudit — Detect permissive/misconfigured CORS from headers or a config
• headerscan — Grade HTTP security headers (CSP/HSTS/XFO) A-F from a response dump

Explore the suite → 🗂️ all 170+ tools · ⭐ awesome-cognis · 🔗 cognis-sources · 🤖 uncensored-fleet · 🧠 engram

Contributing

PRs, new rules, and demo scenarios are welcome under the collaboration-pull model — see CONTRIBUTING.md and SECURITY.md.

⭐ If authmatrix saved you time, star it — it genuinely helps others find it.

Interoperability

{} composes with the 300+ tool Cognis suite — JSON in/out and a shared OpenAI-compatible /v1 backbone. See INTEROP.md for the suite map, composition patterns, and reference stacks.

License

Source-available under the Cognis Open Collaboration License (COCL) v1.0 — free for personal, internal-evaluation, research, and educational use; commercial / production use requires a license ([email protected]). See LICENSE.

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