Cerbos translates authorization policies into native Weaviate query filters
Cerbos documents that its query plan API can translate authorization policy into Weaviate-compatible query filters before retrieval, allowing Pillar A identity-aware authorization to constrain which objects and chunks Weaviate returns in a RAG workflow.
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Cerbos states that its query plans translate into native filter syntax for Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, Qdrant, and FAISS, with no custom middleware required.
Permissions-aware authorization for RAG pipelines - CerbosCerbos documents that its Query Plan can generate filters from the user's identity and policy context and that those filters are applied to the vector store query before retrieval so only authorized data is returned.
Implementing authorization in RAG-based AI systems - Cerbos DocsWeaviate documents filter composition, property-based filters, and combining filters with vector search operators so result sets can be restricted during retrieval rather than only after search has completed.
Filters - Weaviate Docs