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pragmatic-use-authorization from pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-authorization@git:20261104.c2da844

Pins git:20261104.c2da844 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design
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marketplace/plugins/pragmatic-design/skills/pragmatic-use-authorization/SKILL.md
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git:20261104.c2da844, committed Nov 4, 2026
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Use when adding authentication, permissions, roles, JWT, ICurrentUser or per-record access (OwnedEntity, ScopedEntity, DataScopeRule), with Pragmatic.Authorization and Pragmatic.Identity, [RequirePermission], IResourceAuthorizer.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Pragmatic Use Authorization

**Covers:** Authentication, identity, permissions and roles with Pragmatic.Authorization and Pragmatic.Identity from NuGet: ICurrentUser, [RequirePermission], roles and groups, OwnedEntity/ScopedEntity, IResourceAuthorizer, DataScopeRule, JWT.

`Pragmatic.Identity` provides *who the user is* (`ICurrentUser`); `Pragmatic.Authorization` provides *what they can do* (permissions, roles, scopes). Permissions are known at compile-time: the source generator produces constants and a registry, with no reflection-based lookup.

## When to use

- You are protecting actions/endpoints with permissions.
- You are defining roles, groups, or authentication (JWT or external).
- You are restricting data visibility per user/team (`[HasOwner]`, `[HasAccessScopes]`, `DataScopeRule`).
- You are reading the current user inside a mutation/action.

For the `[HasOwner]`/`[HasAccessScopes]` attributes on entities: also see `pragmatic-use-persistence`.

## Packages

```xml
<PackageReference Include="Pragmatic.Authorization" Version="1.0.0-alpha.3" />
<PackageReference Include="Pragmatic.Identity" Version="1.0.0-alpha.3" />
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-authorization@sha256:c7dae0f4f6cc8f49

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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Source

GitHub

pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design · 15 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eusu2j3ksa2r57gh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-authorization
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c7dae0f4f6cc8f49e3bbbdb9cf74027d52ecd7598194cf5c586c55ea2f696b77

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