







Progress is coming along on "Permission Sets", as part of the atproto OAuth and permission system. As with other parts of the protocol, seeing how this functionality gets implemented for ...
Permission set (#4108) · bluesky-social/atproto@f9dc9aa
* Export constants and type assertion utilities * Add permission set support to oauth provider * improve permission set parsing * Rename `PermissionSet` to `ScopePermissions` * Improve performa...
Proposal: OAuth Scopes · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3655
Note: a more complete proposal was published in July 2025: https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0011-auth-scopes We’re continuing work on rolling OAuth out to the atproto network. ...
Permissioned Data Diary 2: Buckets - Daniel's Leaflets
The second in a series of posts building up a solution to permissioned data on atproto. We introduce buckets: a new protocol primitive for creating a shared social context.
atproto made simple: granular permissions - underreacted
atproto made simple: granular permissions - underreacted
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
OAuth Roadmap · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #2656
OAuth is nigh! Protocol support has been a long time coming and we are pumped. It should greatly improve the user and developer experiences building secure apps and integrations on atproto. And cou...
OAuth Client Security in the Atmosphere · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3950
The following was written by the Bluesky team as an overview of OAuth client security considerations, especially for client app developers or readers of the ATProto OAuth profile specification. Set...
Evaluating permissioned spaces for community contexts - meri's missives
A look at Bluesky's proposed approach to private data on ATProto
Permissioned data is a love triangle - Nick's Blog
Permissioned data is a love triangle between the user, the identities they grant permissions to, and the applications everyone uses to view controlled data. We don't need to change or reinvent the protocol to have it, because ATProtocol already supports it.

Permissioned data on atproto — pick your depth
A private room in a place with no walls: how engineers are adding permissioned data to atproto. Read it plain-language or technical.
@dholms.at motivated me to make a follow up post on Stratos, @transrights.northsky.social approach to permission data on ATproto! This one is a bit of a brief technical overview and as a nice bonus, I've made the code base public.
Stratos: Lets get Technical
chipnick.comSeventh in the atproto permissioned-data series: notifications. One self-keyed space per identity, every app writing through a create-only grant, and a reader you choose doing the triage. The self shape returns, direction flipped.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications
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