How to use embodiment starters

A starter kit is a project you own and modify, not a library you install and use. It ships the project structure — build config, deps, wiring, entry script — for one specific use case. newt create <template> unpacks a kit at a pinned commit into a directory that is yours from the first byte: no git remote pointing back at New Theory, and no commits in its history but your own. You fill in your specifics and run it; the kit has no ongoing version relationship to your project. The CLI reference covers the command's flags.

If you're setting up hardware for the first time, start with Set up your embodiment — it walks the onboarding path fast. This page and the per-starter guides below are the deeper reference for what each kit contains.

Each starter targets the Linux workstation that drives the robot. macOS install paths are documented per-starter for developers scaffolding on a laptop before moving to the deploy machine.

Why starter kits

Some integrations need a project structure, not just a function call. Documenting "here's how to set up your project" in prose drifts and breaks. Shipping the same instructions as a working project — version-controlled, executable, copy-pasteable — is reliable.

Each starter encodes one opinionated path through the problem. It's not a framework with options; it's "here's how we'd do it." If you want a different shape later, throw the project away and start over from a different starter.

Available starter kits

Each row pairs a robot (the embodiment) with the model that drives it. A model name like MolmoAct-2 SO-101 identifies a specific checkpoint; the starter's docs explain what the model expects and produces. Run newt create with no arguments to list the templates you can reach — the SO-101 kit is public and needs no key, and private kits are served by the console against your nt_ key.

More embodiments will land as we add them. The pattern is consistent: run newt create, run the kit's setup step to fill in your hardware specifics, run the entry script.