docs: full MkDocs Material site grounded in current main code (39 pages, 5.2k lines)

[cagataycali]

Summary

A complete MkDocs Material documentation site for strands-robots, written from scratch against the current main code. 39 pages, 5245+ lines, zero build warnings under mkdocs build --strict.

The visual scaffolding (mkdocs.yml, theme, assets) was lifted from PR #40, but every .md page was rewritten because PR #40's prose referenced modules that no longer exist (Robot factory, simulation backend, mesh, LIBERO, GR00T N1.7 — all post-#40).

Live preview after merge: https://strands-labs.github.io/robots

What's included

Section	Pages	What
Landing	index.md, learning-path.md	Three-line promise, four feature cards, Recently shipped admonition; three learning tracks (try-it / ship-it / extend-it).
Tutorial	tutorial/01..09 + index	First robot → simulation → policies → agents → multi-robot → recording → training → real hardware → advanced. Each ~150-230 lines.
Getting started	quickstart.md, installation.md, robot-factory.md	5-min install, full extras matrix + platform notes, every Robot() kwarg.
Robots	index.md + 5 category pages	All 68 catalog robots from registry/robots.json listed in their category page (arms, bimanual, hands, humanoids, mobile/aerial/mobile_manip), with featured renders.
Simulation	overview.md, world-building.md, domain-randomization.md, gymnasium-env.md	Full action vocabulary, scene composition, randomization distributions, gymnasium adapter status.
Policies	overview.md, groot.md, lerobot-local.md, custom-policies.md, gear-sonic.md	Policy ABC, three shipping providers, write-your-own walkthrough, GEAR-SONIC integration sketch.
Hardware	robot-control.md, tools.md	HardwareRobot class + 5 @tool helpers (calibrate, camera, teleop, pose, serial).
Misc	recording.md, training/overview.md, examples/overview.md, architecture.md, api-reference.md, contributing.md, troubleshooting.md	LeRobot v3 recording, the explicit 'no trainer in the box' policy, full API reference, error→fix tables.

How it was built

Following DOCS_PLAN.md (which is included in the PR), 20 autonomous cycles each:

1. Opened the relevant code under strands_robots/... and the registry JSONs.
2. Wrote the page grounded in real symbols / signatures / file paths.
3. Ran mkdocs build --strict after every page batch.
4. Committed with a short descriptive message.

Each commit corresponds to one cycle. The 17 docs commits make the diff easy to review chunk-by-chunk.

Source-of-truth grounding

• Registry-driven robot pages. robots/{arms,bimanual,hands,humanoids,mobile}.md are generated from strands_robots/registry/robots.json so the catalog never drifts from the code.
• Real symbol tables. API reference quotes the actual exported names (Policy, MockPolicy, create_policy, Simulation, SimEngine, DatasetRecorder, init_mesh, etc.), not invented ones.
• Real file paths. Every "see also" cites strands_robots/... files that exist on main.

How to review

pip install mkdocs-material pymdown-extensions
mkdocs serve
# → http://localhost:8000

Check:

• All 39 pages render.
• Dark/light theme toggle works.
• Robot render images load (robots/*.md pages).
• Mermaid diagrams render (index.md, architecture.md, learning-path.md).
• Internal links resolve (mkdocs build --strict catches broken ones).
• Code blocks read as runnable Python.

Checklist

• mkdocs build --strict exits 0 with zero warnings
• All 39 nav entries point at real files
• Every robot in registry/robots.json appears on its category page
• No host paths anywhere in the docs
• No emojis in code blocks
• Cross-links: every page has a 'See also' footer with 2-3 sibling links
• index.md has a 'Recently shipped' admonition pointing at recent PRs

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This PR is companion documentation for the current main codebase. It's intentionally written against main rather than any feature branch so it ships in lockstep with the API as it stands today.

[yinsong1986]

Summary

This is a 39-page MkDocs site rewritten against current main. The structural work — nav, theme, registry-driven robot pages, lazy-import discipline diagram, env-var inventory — is solid and the site does build under mkdocs build --strict. Big credit for grounding the registry pages in registry/robots.json and the api-reference page in actual exported names.

The blocker is that the runnable code blocks — which the PR description explicitly promises are runnable Python — frequently aren't. They use kwarg names and return-dict keys that don't match the implementation on this branch. A reader who copy-pastes the quickstart will get a KeyError on render, a TypeError on add_object, and a TypeError: missing 1 required positional argument: 'robot_name' on run_policy. The architecture page also misrepresents the Policy ABC in a way that contradicts api-reference.md three pages over.

None of these are theme/lint issues — they're factual code-vs-docs drift. Inline comments call out the most representative occurrences; the same patterns repeat across other tutorial chapters and should be swept together.

What's good

• Registry-driven robot category pages — they will not drift from the catalog.
• api-reference.md exports list matches the actual __all__ / public symbols I spot-checked.
• Env-var table in installation.md matches the four canonical env vars in AGENTS.md (STRANDS_ROBOT_MODE, STRANDS_TRUST_REMOTE_CODE, MUJOCO_GL, plus the asset/audit ones).
• Lazy-import contract is correctly described in architecture.md and contributing.md.
• Per-page "See also" footers are consistently present.

Concerns (summary-level)

• Code blocks aren't smoke-tested. DOCS_PLAN.md > Hard rules #2 says "Every code block must work" and lists python3 -c as the smoke check. The repeated render()["frame"], add_object(type=..., pos=..., rgba=...), and run_policy(instruction=..., policy_provider=...) (no robot_name) patterns suggest this gate was not actually run. A pre-merge sweep with a small extractor that runs each fenced ```python block against the installed library would catch all of these.
• Internal inconsistency between architecture.md and api-reference.md on the Policy ABC surface. Pick one and propagate.
• docs/examples/overview.md describes an examples/ directory that doesn't exist on this branch. git ls-tree pr-head -- examples/ returns empty. Either the example scripts ship in this PR (they don't) or the page should link to a future PR / be marked as a roadmap stub like policies/gear-sonic.md is.
• DOCS_PLAN.md is on main already and the PR edits it (14 lines). The plan is fine to land alongside the docs, but if the docs site itself is the deliverable, the meta-plan probably belongs in docs/internal/ or the PR description, not the repo root. Not blocking — flagging since the file is normally an authoring scratch-pad.
• Asset binaries (~30 PNGs/GIFs/MP4s) added without a note on size or whether they're tracked via git-lfs. Worth confirming the repo's clone size impact before merge.

Verification suggestions

# 1. Smoke-test every fenced python block in docs/
python3 - <<'PY'
import pathlib, re, ast
for p in pathlib.Path("docs").rglob("*.md"):
    for i, m in enumerate(re.finditer(r"```python\n(.*?)```", p.read_text(), re.S)):
        try:
            ast.parse(m.group(1))
        except SyntaxError as e:
            print(f"{p}:{i}: {e}")
PY
# (catches syntax errors, not runtime — but a meaningful first cut)

# 2. Diff the api-reference symbol list against actual __all__:
python3 -c "import strands_robots, strands_robots.policies, strands_robots.tools, strands_robots.simulation, strands_robots.mesh; \
  [print(m, getattr(__import__(m, fromlist=['x']), '__all__', '<no __all__>')) for m in \
    ('strands_robots','strands_robots.policies','strands_robots.tools','strands_robots.simulation','strands_robots.mesh')]"

# 3. Verify the 35+ action vocabulary count claim against AgentTool dispatch:
grep -E '^\s+(elif|if) action ==' strands_robots/simulation/mujoco/simulation.py | wc -l

[yinsong1986]

These signatures don't match strands_robots/policies/base.py on this branch. The actual ABC declares:

class Policy(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    async def get_actions(
        self, observation_dict: dict[str, Any], instruction: str, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> list[dict[str, Any]]: ...

    @abstractmethod
    def set_robot_state_keys(self, robot_state_keys: list[str]) -> None: ...

    @property
    @abstractmethod
    def provider_name(self) -> str: ...

    @property
    def requires_images(self) -> bool: ...   # default True

No get_action (singular, sync), no reset(). Note api-reference.md line 115 already lists the correct triplet (get_actions, set_robot_state_keys, requires_images) — so the two pages disagree with each other. Custom-policies.md will need a re-read against the same source.

[yinsong1986]

Three problems in this snippet and the next, all from the implementation having drifted from what the page assumes:

1. render() doesn't return {"frame": ndarray}. Per simulation/mujoco/rendering.py:448-455, the return shape is {"status": "success", "content": [{"text": ...}, {"image": {"format": "png", "source": {"bytes": <png bytes>}}}, {"json": ...}]}. result["frame"] will KeyError. Either decode the PNG bytes from content[1]["image"]["source"]["bytes"] or use a different code sample.
2. add_object (next block) uses wrong kwargs. Real signature in simulation/mujoco/simulation.py:996 is add_object(name, shape="box", position=None, orientation=None, size=None, color=None, mass=0.1, ...). The page passes type=, pos=, rgba= — none of which match. They get swallowed by **kwargs silently or TypeError depending on dispatch path.
3. run_policy (next block) is missing the required robot_name arg. simulation/mujoco/simulation.py:1858 declares def run_policy(self, robot_name: str, ...) — no default. The example raises TypeError: missing 1 required positional argument: 'robot_name'.

Same three issues recur in tutorial/01-your-first-robot.md, tutorial/02-simulation.md, and tutorial/03-policies.md. Worth one sweep across all the runnable blocks.

[yinsong1986]

Same add_object kwargs drift as in the quickstart — type=, pos=, rgba=, plus render(camera="wrist") on line 25 (the real kwarg is camera_name=, see simulation/base.py:230 and the strict camera-name validation in mujoco/rendering.py:417-424). Line 90 has the same pattern with type="sphere". Recommending a single sweep: add_object(name=..., shape=..., position=..., color=...) and render(camera_name=..., width=..., height=...).

[yinsong1986]

sim.run_policy(instruction="pick up the cube", policy_provider="mock", duration=10.0) is missing the required robot_name argument (see simulation/mujoco/simulation.py:1858 — robot_name: str has no default). Line 144 (sim.run_policy(...) with policy=...) and line 153 (sim.run_policy(instruction=..., policy=policy, ...)) hit the same issue. Also: there is no policy= kwarg — the actual name is policy_object= (line 1869). Once you have robot_name plumbed in, double-check by walking the call against the keyword list in the source.

[yinsong1986]

git ls-tree pr-head -- examples/ returns empty — there is no examples/ directory on this branch and the linked GitHub URL will 404 once published. The eight scripts in the table below (01_sim_quickstart.py through physics_agent.py) don't exist in the repo.

This page should either (a) be removed from the nav until a sibling PR adds the actual examples/ directory, or (b) be reframed as a roadmap stub the way policies/gear-sonic.md and simulation/gymnasium-env.md are (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED, point to roadmap per DOCS_PLAN.md cycle 11). Shipping a docs page that confidently describes nonexistent files is worse than not shipping the page.