# Nous Research — tinker-atropos: An Integration Layer for the Tinker API and Atropos RL Framework

- Company: Nous Research (nousresearch.com)
- Announced: 2025-11-18T01:31:24+00:00
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- Group: announcements
- Source: https://nousresearch.com/tinker-atropos-blog
- Record: https://forck.live/items/24028-tinker-atropos-an-integration-layer-for-the-tinker-api-and-atropos-rl-framework
- Subject: Hermes models

The team at Nous Research proudly presents tinker-atropos , our integration layer between the Tinker API and our Atropos reinforcement learning (RL) framework. We designed Atropos to be a fully decoupled environment service, separating concerns around trainer management, rollout collection, and environment setup into three distinct components. Consequently, we found Tinker to be a perfect fit for this paradigm, providing easier management of the inference weights while remaining as close to a fully on-policy approach as possible. The goal of our integration layer was to enable any Atropos environment to plug into Tinker with minimal, if any, modifications needed. We hope this effort will introduce new Atropos users to the Tinker framework and allow Tinker users to immediately get started with Atropos environments. Through decoupling training, inference, and trajectory collection, we are able to present a seamless, easy-to-use integration layer between the Tinker API and the Atropos RL framework. Technical Approach / Architecture Overview To integrate with Tinker, we first required an inference layer that could communicate with the SamplingClient . …

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