Platform Links

Links allow AI tools to execute operations on remote sources (databases, APIs, services) through a unified interface.

A connector registers itself via the ArangoPlatformLink CRD, declares its capabilities (description, tags, JSON Schema), and processes jobs submitted by AI tools.

Quick Start

  1. Deploy a link (Helm chart or manual)
  2. The Link CRD becomes Ready and appears in /_inventory
  3. AI tools discover the link, read its schema, and submit jobs
  4. The connector picks up jobs, executes them, and uploads results

Resource Model

Links are not serverless — they run as regular Kubernetes Deployments that you manage. The link pod contains:

  • Your link container — your binary that processes jobs
  • Integration sidecar — injected automatically by the platform, provides the job queue (MetaStore) and file storage (StorageV2)

The link runs continuously and polls for jobs. It does not run as a sidecar of the caller — it is an independent workload with its own resource limits that you configure in the Deployment spec.

You are responsible for:

  • Setting CPU/memory limits on the link container
  • Choosing the number of replicas (multiple instances share the job queue safely)
  • Monitoring the link’s health

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