generated: 2026-07-21
method: derived
source: >-
  Derived from Tinker docs (compatible-apis, api-reference) at
  https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/
name: Thinking Machines (Tinker) conformance
description: >-
  Cross-cutting standards and compatibility assertions for the Tinker API,
  each with the evidence it was derived from. Absence of a standard is recorded
  honestly as conforms:false.
conformance:
- id: openai-completions-compatible
  conforms: true
  evidence: >-
    Documented OpenAI Completions-compatible inference endpoint (beta) usable
    from an OpenAI client. https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/compatible-apis/openai/
- id: anthropic-compatible
  conforms: true
  evidence: >-
    Documented Anthropic-compatible inference endpoint (beta).
    https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/compatible-apis/anthropic/
- id: cursor-pagination
  conforms: true
  evidence: >-
    SDK exposes a Cursor type and *ListResponse envelopes for listing
    checkpoints, training runs, and audit-log entries.
- id: rfc9457
  conforms: false
  evidence: >-
    Errors are surfaced as OpenAI-style typed SDK exceptions, not RFC 9457
    application/problem+json responses.
- id: oauth2
  conforms: false
  evidence: >-
    Authentication is a single API key (TINKER_API_KEY); no OAuth 2.0 flows are
    documented.
- id: idempotency
  conforms: false
  evidence: No idempotency-key mechanism is documented in the Tinker docs.
docs: https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/