[FEAT]: User control of RAG database in a single workspace

[jhsmith409]

What would you like to see?

I realize this may be better handled by a more complete solution for RBAC across all of anythingLLM. I've read a number of feature requests looking for either the full RBAC solution or bits and pieces.

So, far I have not seen anyone taking on the full task of RBAC. If I were to do that, I would look to using a database that supported that function for me which then becomes a huge project of changing the internal database of anythingLLM. This is complicated by RBAC being a paid feature in many databases.

So short of full RBAC implementation, I, like others, am seeing limits where I can apply anythingLLM. I've seen Tim reject (and with good reason) other partial user permission enhancements that did not offer a full set of features. Despite this, my intention is to create a fork for User-based control of the RAG in a single Workspace and hope Tim will accept that back in. If not, I'll end out with a fork I have to maintain until full RBAC is implemented. Hoping with the right features, Tim would be willing to merge this back in before RBAC is implemented.

(Fishing for comments from Tim as to what he would view favorably...)

[timothycarambat]

This older (but still relevant PR) #3799 is what you are likely looking for?

• Doesnt break existing roles
• Would allow admin to define basically a "schema" with custom roles and keys/perms
• Would be installation specific, but not dependent on external services
• Could be automated with an auth provider (like SSO) to generate or provision a custom roles per user.

However, as you would imagine - this is a whole overhaul of the current auth and is tricky, which is what is taking so long :(