baseten-loops-tinker 0.5.0

Drop-in tinker compatibility shim backed by the loops SDK

loops-tinker

Drop-in compatibility shim that provides the tinker package namespace backed by the loops SDK.

Installation

pip install loops-tinker

Usage

Existing code that uses import tinker works without modification:

import tinker

service_client = tinker.ServiceClient(training_project_id="proj_abc123")
training_client = service_client.create_lora_training_client(
    base_model="Qwen/Qwen3-8B", rank=16,
)
sampling_client = service_client.create_sampling_client(model="Qwen/Qwen3-8B")

All types are also available under tinker.types:

from tinker.types import SamplingParams, Datum, ModelInput
from tinker.types.tensor_data import TensorData

Using with tinker-cookbook

tinker-cookbook depends on tinker, but you can swap in loops-tinker using uv's override-dependencies to prevent the original tinker from being installed.

First add the override to pyproject.toml before installing any dependencies (there is no CLI command for this). If tinker-cookbook is added first, the original tinker gets installed and its files conflict with loops-tinker:

[tool.uv]
override-dependencies = [
    "tinker ; python_version < '0'",
]

Then add the dependencies:

uv init
uv add tinker-cookbook
uv add "loops @ git+https://github.com/basetenlabs/loops#subdirectory=loops"
uv add "loops-tinker @ git+https://github.com/basetenlabs/loops#subdirectory=loops-tinker"

loops is a transitive dep of loops-tinker but must be listed directly because [tool.uv.sources] only applies to direct dependencies. This won't be needed once loops is published to PyPI.

The tinker namespace will be provided by loops-tinker instead of the original package.