ory/kratos
Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.
Health Breakdown
Should you contribute to ory/kratos?
ory/kratos has a FoundDev health score of 89/100, which puts it in the active-and-maintained tier. The maintainer team is shipping recently, issues are being closed, and a PR you open this week has a realistic chance of being reviewed.
Last push was 0 days ago — that signals an actively maintained project. New issues are likely to get a maintainer response within days. The project is written primarily in Go, so prior Go experience will shorten ramp-up.
Licensed under Apache-2.0, a standard OSI-approved license — safe to contribute to under normal employer IP policies.