pi-tinker AGENTS.md

pi-tinker AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from gvkhosla/pi-tinker. It costs 1,100 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent guide for preparing and fine-tuning open-weight language models with Tinker. It describes a path from JSONL training data through validation, evaluation, training, checkpoints, comparison, and chat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate JSONL data, run baseline evaluations, start smoke training, create checkpoints, compare results, and chat with a trained model through supported command-line workflows.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a consistent workflow while keeping Tinker as the training system and requiring approval before actions that use external APIs.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvkhosla/pi-tinker

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AGENTS.md · 116 lines

How it starts

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Agent guide for pi-tinker

This repo is a Pi package that helps people run and fine-tune Inkling and other open-weight models with Tinker.

Product promise

Help a non-expert go from:

data → prepared JSONL → validation → baseline eval → smoke training → checkpoint → before/after comparison → chat in Pi

Do not turn this into a separate training framework. Keep Tinker/Tinker Cookbook as the real training layer and generate normal editable Python.

Agent compatibility

This AGENTS.md is the canonical guide for every coding agent. Pi is the primary and richest interface, but Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and other shell-capable agents can run the same operator non-interactively:

node scripts/agent-cli.mjs inkling
node scripts/agent-cli.mjs doctor
node scripts/agent-cli.mjs validate data/train.jsonl --model thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small

When installed from npm, use pi-tinker-agent instead. Read docs/coding-agents.md for details. Other agents should inspect and edit the generated Python directly; they must not imitate hidden Pi UI state or trigger API-using stages without explicit user approval. --force is file-only; never add --accept-regression, --allow-retired-model, or --allow-unapproved unless the user explicitly requests that exact safety override.

Best first commands for users

For Inkling itself:

/tinker inkling
/tinker inkling sweep --prompt "a representative task" --efforts low,medium,high,xhigh --yes
/model

If the user has no data yet:

/tinker demo
/tinker next

If the user has CSV/JSON/JSONL/docs, prefer the managed operator first:

/tinker improve <input> --goal "what should improve" --budget demo

Then, only after the user understands API usage and evals:

/tinker improve <input> --goal "what should improve" --budget smoke --eval-reviewed --yes
/tinker improve <input> --goal "what should improve" --budget small --yes
/tinker deploy latest

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

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pi-tinker AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/pi-tinker (24 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,100 tokens to every session, about $0.0055 per session on Opus 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.