Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
WorkOS RBAC just got a major upgrade. Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) extends your existing role-based access control with resource types — giving you the power to build collaborative, Google Docs-style permissions without replacing what you already have. In this video, chantastic walks you through the new resource type modeling tool in the WorkOS dashboard, shows how permissions and roles integrate with resource types through inheritance, and demonstrates how FGA supports complex type hierarchies for modern collaborative applications.
Docs: workos.com/docs/fga
API references: workos.com/docs/fga/resource-types
Announcement post: workos.com/changelog/fine-grained-authorization
Chapters:
0:00 Why RBAC isn't enough for collaborative apps
0:52 Introducing Resource Types as a simpler solution
1:02 Build and scope Resource Types in the WorkOS dashboard
1:49 Model complex type hierarchies with FGA
WorkOS RBAC just got a major upgrade. Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) extends your existing role-based access control with resource types — giving you the power to build collaborative, Google Docs-style permissions without replacing what you already have. In this video, chantastic walks you through the new resource type modeling tool in the WorkOS dashboard, shows how permissions and roles integrate with resource types through inheritance, and demonstrates how FGA supports complex type hierarchies for modern collaborative applications.
Docs: workos.com/docs/fga
API references: workos.com/docs/fga/resource-types
Announcement post: workos.com/changelog/fine-grained-authorization
Chapters:
0:00 Why RBAC isn't enough for collaborative apps
0:52 Introducing Resource Types as a simpler solution
1:02 Build and scope Resource Types in the WorkOS dashboard
1:49 Model complex type hierarchies with FGA
