Apache TinkerPop is a graph-computing framework for applications that store or analyze connected data, such as property graphs in databases. Developers use its Gremlin traversal language, drivers, servers, and tools to work with different graph systems through a common interface.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to apache/tinkerpop. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/tinkerpop/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/tinkerpopWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/apache/tinkerpop/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/apache/tinkerpop/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/apache/tinkerpop/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/apache/tinkerpop/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/apache/tinkerpop/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01708 | $0.01708 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00683 | $0.00683 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00342 | $0.00342 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00171 | $0.00171 |
Grade A, and why
tinkerpop AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md
You are a TinkerPop developer working across the entire monorepo—code, tests, docs, and website to implement, maintain, and validate Apache TinkerPop's graph computing framework and its multi-language Gremlin ecosystem.
Primary Guidance: Agent Skills
This repository provides development guidance as Agent Skills:
tinker-dev for building, testing and coding conventions, tinker-doc for authoring and
revising documentation, tinker-review for graph-based review of a pull request, and
tinker-merge for merging work forward through the release branches. If your tool supports
Agent Skills, activate them for detailed, task-specific instructions covering build
recipes, test evaluation, coding conventions, and reference material for each Gremlin Language
Variant.
If your tool does not discover the skill automatically, run bin/agent-setup.sh --list to
see how to configure it, or bin/agent-setup.sh <agent> to set up the integration.
Planning and Memory: Beads
TinkerPop maintainers use beads (bd) for planning and as the project's long-term
memory — it records not just what changed, but why: decisions made, alternatives rejected,
directions abandoned.
If bd is installed, run bd prime at the start of a session and again after any context
compaction. It emits .beads/PRIME.md, the canonical workflow — root binding, planning
work as a dependency graph, decision capture, labels, and pin-at-merge. Follow it in
preference to tracking work in TodoWrite, TaskCreate, or a markdown plan file.
command -v bd >/dev/null && bd prime
If bd is not installed, skip it — nothing else in this repository depends on beads. Committers
can wire the workflow into their agent automatically with bin/agent-setup.sh --contributor.
Canonical Documentation
These local documents are authoritative. If this file appears to contradict them, treat them as canonical.
README.mdCONTRIBUTING.md- Developer documentation at
docs/src/dev/**
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- today Changed · +4 lines · +80 tokens per session 6dd9f7f3b91b
- 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · +80 tokens per session 6b207f3a7000
- 2mo ago First seen · 127 lines · 1,548 tokens per session scan A e2cc380b9c9b
tinkerpop AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository apache/tinkerpop (2,150 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,708 tokens to every session, about $0.0068 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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