LangGraph Tigris Checkpoint

Implementation of a LangGraph BaseCheckpointSaver that persists agent state in Tigris globally-distributed object storage over the S3 API (sync and async), plus a zero-copy bucket-fork helper for instant branching of an entire thread's checkpoint lineage.

Why Tigris

• Durable, global, cheap state — checkpoints live in globally-replicated object storage with no egress fees.
• Instant branching — fork() creates a zero-copy fork of the bucket, so an agent's entire checkpoint history can be branched in O(1) for parallel experiments, evals, or what-if exploration. Writes to the fork are isolated from the source.
• Pure object store — no separate database to operate. "Latest checkpoint" is found via a sorted list under strong consistency; conditional writes are available for idempotency/CAS.

Bucket requirement

Use a Single-region or Multi-region Tigris bucket. These provide strong, globally consistent reads, lists, and conditional operations, which this saver relies on. Global and Dual-region buckets give only eventual cross-region consistency and can return stale "latest" results.

Install

pip install langgraph-checkpoint-tigris

Usage

from langgraph.checkpoint.tigris import TigrisSaver

# Credentials from the standard AWS env chain
# (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID / AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY), endpoint defaults to Tigris.
with TigrisSaver.from_conn_string("my-bucket") as checkpointer:
    checkpointer.setup()
    graph = builder.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer)
    graph.invoke({"messages": [...]}, {"configurable": {"thread_id": "1"}})

Async:

from langgraph.checkpoint.tigris.aio import AsyncTigrisSaver

async with AsyncTigrisSaver.from_conn_string("my-bucket") as checkpointer:
    await checkpointer.setup()
    graph = builder.compile(checkpointer=checkpointer)
    await graph.ainvoke({"messages": [...]}, {"configurable": {"thread_id": "1"}})

Instant branching with forks

with TigrisSaver.from_conn_string("prod-agent-state") as checkpointer:
    # Branch the ENTIRE bucket (all threads/checkpoints) instantly.
    experiment = checkpointer.fork("experiment-run-42")
    # `experiment` is an isolated TigrisSaver; writes here never touch prod.

Object layout

{prefix}checkpoints/{thread}/{ns}/{checkpoint_id}/manifest.json
{prefix}checkpoints/{thread}/{ns}/{checkpoint_id}/checkpoint.bin
{prefix}checkpoints/{thread}/{ns}/{checkpoint_id}/writes/{task_id}/{idx}.bin

Checkpoints are immutable and uniquely keyed; checkpoint_ids are time-sortable so the latest is max(...) of a prefix listing — no mutable HEAD pointer.

Development

cd libs/checkpoint-tigris
uv sync
make format && make lint && make test         # unit tests run without creds

# Full suite (conformance + integration + fork) needs a live Tigris bucket:
TIGRIS_TEST_BUCKET=my-bucket \
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... \
make test

Integration, conformance, and fork tests are skipped automatically when those environment variables are absent. The pure key-layout unit tests (tests/test_keys.py) always run.

Status

The synchronous and asynchronous savers, the copy_thread/acopy_thread branching capability, and the zero-copy fork() helper are implemented and pass the LangGraph checkpointer conformance suite (langgraph-checkpoint-conformance) against a live Tigris bucket. The pure key-layout and manifest logic are additionally unit-tested offline.