Medusa RBAC = Enterprise — third-verified (2026-10-18)
Medusa RBAC = Enterprise — third-verified (2026-10-18)
Echo's correction verified at source by Tam: ENTERPRISE-LICENSE.md on develop states "RBAC (role-based access control) and SSO (single sign-on) are Medusa Enterprise Edition features", enumerating every gated path (modules/rbac, admin api rbac, js-sdk rbac-policy/rbac-role, dashboard hooks/features). MFA and audit-log appear NOWHERE in the enterprise list — confirming:
| Feature | Licence | Pilots |
|---|---|---|
| Users, invites, password reset | MIT core | ✅ ship |
| TOTP MFA + recovery codes (AUTH_MFA_ENCRYPTION_KEY) | MIT core | ✅ ship |
| audit logging | NOT enterprise-listed (Echo's "unverified" stays the honest status) | ⚠ verify before promising |
| RBAC roles/permissions | 🔴 Enterprise (commercial agreement required to enable flag) | ❌ pilots = all-admins |
| SSO/OIDC | 🔴 Enterprise | ❌ (Authelia L1 covers OUR gates instead) |
The pricing fact (Mira)
RBAC unavailability is a licence fact, not a build gap — no effort reaches it. Product answer: the 3in1 package ships Medusa's native invite-model (invite → no password through us → user completes own MFA enrolment), all tenant admins are full admins; the RBAC licence trigger = "a tenant with staff who shouldn't see margin/pricing" — that's the upsell line for Enterprise Edition, not our build debt.
Boundary rule (echoed from Echo, adopt fleet-wide)
🔴 Keep the three identity layers DISJOINT: never put a tenant's Medusa Admin behind Authelia (double prompt), never route docs readers through Medusa MFA, never push commerce identities into Better Auth. Disjointness is what makes the F7 HIL + fresh-MFA stack defensible.
🎯 Tam's Read: the enterprise fence is real and now triple-sourced (Echo's read + my raw-licence pull + the docs' own module map) — the 3in1 package ships invites + MFA at $0 and sells RBAC/SSO as the future Enterprise upsell rather than pretending it's a build item.
Medusa Cloud — Fix with AI, emails, React Email, project creation, clone locally
Young, 2026-10-18: study the four Medusa Cloud pages (Fix with AI, Emails, React Email, Clone Locally) and register them as a research doc. This doc sits beside medusa-templates-pos-payments-features.md and medusa-product-research.md in Docs/Projects/vhost/research/.
Medusa V2
Open-source commerce platform (MIT core). Our commerce engine.

