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Stale JWT claims in authorization, and how to look up identity attributes at decision time

calendar_today August 21, 2026 person Alex Olivier domain cerbos

How to resolve identity attributes at decision time rather than reading stale JWT claims. Covers Envoy verifying the token while a Synapse data source fetches current profile and group data, policies that read attributes rather than claims, per source cache expiry, and failure behavior when the provider is unreachable.

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