permission-gen

What This Skill Does

The permission-gen skill acts as an intelligent architect for your application's security layer. It bridges the gap between natural language requirements and complex Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) code. By processing high-level descriptions of your system's roles and resource hierarchies, it automatically generates robust, type-safe TypeScript code. It handles the tedious boilerplate associated with creating permission constants, defining role-permission maps, and writing utility functions to verify user access levels. Beyond basic constants, it produces middleware tailored for popular frameworks like Express and Next.js, ensuring that your security implementation is consistent, scalable, and follows industry best practices without you having to manually define hundreds of individual access control checks.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/lxgicstudios/ai-permission

Ensure you have Node.js 18+ installed on your system. Since this tool utilizes LLM capabilities to generate your authorization logic, you must have an active OPENAI_API_KEY configured in your environment variables for the tool to function correctly.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for developers building SaaS products, content management systems, or internal dashboards where granular access control is non-negotiable. It is particularly useful for:

• Rapidly prototyping MVP authorization layers.
• Standardizing permission logic across microservices.
• Refactoring hard-coded, messy permission checks into a maintainable, centralized module.
• Reducing the risk of human error when mapping complex role-hierarchy relationships.

Example Prompts

1. "Generate a RBAC system for a blog platform with Author, Editor, and Subscriber roles that handle post creation, publishing, and comment moderation."
2. "Create an Express-compatible permission set for a SaaS dashboard with tiered access levels: Owner, Manager, and Viewer for billing and user settings."
3. "Build a TypeScript permission module for a multi-tenant project management tool where users have roles of Admin, Member, and Guest scoped to individual project resources."

Tips & Limitations

• Tip: Always review the generated output before integrating it into your main codebase. While the logic is sound, complex business rules might require manual fine-tuning.
• Tip: Use the --out flag to direct generated code straight into your project's directory to keep your source control clean.
• Limitation: The current version relies on external AI API calls, meaning internet connectivity and API availability are mandatory for operation.
• Limitation: It focuses primarily on RBAC (Role-Based) and does not inherently implement ABAC (Attribute-Based) systems without specific prompting.