PropelAuth roles are hierarchical, Owner beats Admin beats Member
Check roles with user_is_role on the org object and rely on the hierarchy: asking for Admin matches Owners too. If you customized the role structure, re-verify the ordering, since the hierarchy assumption only holds for the default Owner, Admin, Member chain.
Context: Official docs (propelauth-py README): documents a gotcha that trips agents writing role checks. PropelAuth roles are hierarchical by default: Owner outranks Admin, which outranks Member, and the user_is_role check respects that ordering. Agents that compare role names as strings, or demand an exact Admin match when the caller is an Owner, lock out the most privileged users.Maintainer review
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