Welcome to SEAL’s documentation!

S.E.A.L - the Super Easy Authorization Language. Seal is an opinionated, strongly typed, declarative language with a grammar that’s easy to understand yet expressive enough to handle a variety of use cases.

Key Concepts

• Key Concepts
• Subjects
• Permissions
• Verbs
• Actions
• Obligations

Getting Started

• Requirements
• Dev environment
  • Clone the repo
  • Build, run, and test petstore example

Grammar

• Action Rules
  • Action Clause
  • Action
  • Action Property
  • Subject Clause
  • Subject Type
  • Subject
  • Verb
  • Resource
  • Where Clause
• Examples
  • 1. simple examples
  • 2. complex examples
• Context Stanzas
• EBNF (Extended Backus Naur Form) Grammar