Compiler presets shaped after public writeups on thinkingmachines.ai/tinker— not quotes or endorsements. Each card links to that page. The compiler maps the writeup onto a verifier, a task, and a base model.
Named recipes
Glean · Tool plan, then cite
Waldo
DPO warmup on preferred vs. rejected tool calls, then an environment score for cited documents and thrift. Nemotron-3-Nano for latency.
DPO on production traces, then this RL loop.01 Verifiable outcome · Importance Sampling02 Specialized Tool Agents03 Nemotron-3-NanoSource: Waldo on Tinker Open in builderChroma · Search subagent
Context-1
Self-distill quality-filtered search trajectories, then reward retrieval plus token efficiency. A subagent that prunes its own context.
SDFT on teacher traces, then environment RL for recall.01 Demonstrations · Cross-Entropy (SDFT)02 Specialized Tool Agents03 GPT-OSS-20BSource: Context-1 on Tinker Open in builderAxiom Math · Kernel is the judge
AxiomProver
Formal math. Lean checks every step. The reward is binary: the proof verifies or it does not. Large base model, small adapter.
01 Verifiable outcome · Importance Sampling02 Formal Reasoning Engines03 DeepSeek-V3.1Source: AxiomProver on Tinker Open in builderLightning Rod Labs · Calibration is the product
Clinical forecast
A lightweight adapter on GPT-OSS-120B for out-of-sample clinical outcomes. Reward the probability, not the essay.
01 Preference pairs · Pairwise preference02 Calibrated Forecasting03 GPT-OSS-120BSource: Lightning Rod Labs on Tinker Open in builderMantic · Decorrelated from the frontier
Judgmental forecast
RL on real-world forecasting questions. The fine-tune is useful in an ensemble because it is not a clone of GPT.
01 Verifiable outcome · Importance Sampling02 Calibrated Forecasting03 GPT-OSS-120BSource: Mantic on Tinker Open in builderShenfeld et al. · Learn without forgetting
SDFT skill add
The model is its own teacher. On-policy rewrite of a demonstration, then cross-entropy. New tools without wrecking the generalist.
01 Demonstrations · Cross-Entropy (SDFT)02 Specialized Tool Agents03 Nemotron-3-NanoSource: SDFT on Tinker Open in builder