install

Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install granted

provider-native install command

overview

Package summary

Easiest way to access your cloud

Project links

Commands and aliases

assume
assume.fish
assumego
granted

history

Project history and usage

Granted is a command-line tool for cloud access, focused on AWS role assumption, AWS SSO workflows, browser-based console access, and safer handling of cached credentials.

Project history

The Granted README and docs describe the project as a CLI that simplifies access to cloud roles and lets users open multiple cloud accounts in a browser. Its goals are fast role discovery and assumption, browser isolation for simultaneous accounts, and encrypted cached credentials to avoid plaintext SSO tokens on disk.

Granted is developed under the fwdcloudsec GitHub organization and is documented through the Common Fate/Granted documentation site. The repository structure separates the granted management command and assume role-assumption workflow.

Adoption history

Granted fits teams with many AWS accounts, especially organizations using AWS SSO/IAM Identity Center. Its adoption is driven by reducing friction around profile selection, browser sessions, and short-lived role credentials.

The Homebrew package is useful because the tool lives directly in shell workflows: users run assume, integrate it with AWS config and credentials files, and pair it with browsers and keychains rather than a server process.

How it is used

Users configure AWS profiles, run assume to select and assume a role, export credentials for terminal commands, or open cloud consoles in separate browser contexts. The docs recommend AWS SSO because it avoids long-lived IAM credentials on a device.

Granted also intersects with package-manager and OS security details because it can use platform credential stores and must behave correctly across macOS, Linux, Windows, shells, and browsers.

Why package nerds care

Granted is significant as a security-adjacent CLI package: it is small, but it touches AWS config conventions, credential files, shell initialization, browser integration, and OS credential stores. Those edges make packaging quality visible to day-to-day cloud operators.

Timeline

2024: Discussions and issues show active use around AWS SSO profile and keychain workflows.
2026: The GitHub repository listed hundreds of commits and over a thousand stars, indicating a mature niche CLI package.

Related projects

AWS CLI and AWS IAM Identity Center are the primary external systems.
Browser container/profile features, OS keychains, and shell integrations are part of the user workflow.
Common Fate documentation and fwdcloudsec source control are the official project surfaces.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signals

text:cloud

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.granted~/.aws/config
Windows: %USERPROFILE%/.granted%UserProfile%\.aws\config

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.aws/credentials
Windows: %UserProfile%\.aws\credentials

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`assume`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`assume.fish`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`assumego`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`granted`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.39.0

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:granted
Version	0.39.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://granted.dev/
Repository	https://github.com/fwdcloudsec/granted
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/granted.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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