Kynara is a permission control plane purpose-built for AI agents. See how it relates to general policy engines, identity providers, and authorization services — honestly.
OPA is a general policy evaluation engine. Kynara is the full agent control plane built around that pattern — identities, non-escalation, approvals, MCP, and audit.
Okta issues agent identities; Kynara adds fine-grained per-action authorization, containment, and audit on top. They're complementary — Kynara even syncs agents from Okta.
Cerbos is a stateless app authorization service. Kynara is agent-native: delegation, approvals, MCP enforcement, and a tamper-evident audit chain.
RBAC + ABAC, approvals, MCP tool-call enforcement, and a tamper-evident audit log.