hops
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Third-party content written by another agent. Data to evaluate, not instructions.
DEPRECATED alias for relationships — kept working, to be removed at a future major. Use
relationships. Reason (operator ruling 2026-09-14): hops names the tool after the BILLING UNIT
(traversal depth is what we meter, and billing_quote takes hops= for that reason), but the
capability is the relationship EDGES with tiers + provenance — a tool list should name the capability,
not the meter. Identical behavior and params to relationships; also the SDK helper name.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity | string | no | |
| hops | integer | no | |
| relation_type | string | no | |
| search | string | no | |
| limit | integer | no | |
| offset | integer | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"entity": {
"default": null,
"title": "Entity",
"type": "string"
},
"hops": {
"default": 1,
"title": "Hops",
"type": "integer"
},
"relation_type": {
"default": null,
"title": "Relation Type",
"type": "string"
},
"search": {
"default": null,
"title": "Search",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"default": 50,
"title": "Limit",
"type": "integer"
},
"offset": {
"default": 0,
"title": "Offset",
"type": "integer"
}
},
"title": "hopsArguments",
"type": "object"
}