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* **#2 — dedupe `_PLACEHOLDER_RE`.** The same regex was compiled in
`recipe.py` and `language_render.py`. Promote to module-level
`PLACEHOLDER_RE` in `recipe.py` (its primary owner — declares
template syntax) and import from `language_render.py`.
* **#3 — centralize language column names.** `io_utils.py` had
hardcoded `{"language_persistent", "language_events"}` literals at
two sites. Replace with `LANGUAGE_COLUMNS` import so a future column
rename can't silently desync.
* **#4 — defensive collate preserved-keys.** `lerobot_collate_fn`
silently filtered language fields from samples that didn't have
them, which would hand downstream consumers a preserved list
shorter than the tensor batch. Now: if any sample carries a key,
every sample in the batch must carry it; otherwise raise a
`ValueError` so the upstream rendering bug surfaces at the boundary.
* **#5 — `_scalar` rejects non-singleton lists.** Previously a zero-
or multi-element list fell through and triggered confusing
`float([])` errors downstream. Now raises `ValueError` with the
actual length.
* **#6 — refactor `_extract_complementary_data`.** Replace 11 lines
of `key = {... if ... else {}}` plus an 11-line splat dict with a
single `_COMPLEMENTARY_KEYS` tuple iterated once.
* **#7 — document `EXTENDED_STYLES`.** Was an empty `set()` with no
comment. Add a docstring explaining it's an intentional extension
point: downstream modules append project-local styles before
`column_for_style` is called.
* **#9 — `tools.mdx` notes the runtime layer is future work.** The
page referenced `src/lerobot/tools/`, `registry.py`, and
`get_tools(meta)` — none exist in this PR. Added a callout at the
start of "How to add your own tool" plus a note on the
implementations paragraph.
* **#10 — tests for YAML round-trip, malformed rows, blend
validation.** `test_recipe.py` grew from 1 case to 12 covering:
blend-or-messages exclusivity, target-turn requirement, blend
emptiness, weight presence/positivity, nested-blend rejection,
`from_dict` with nested blends, `from_yaml` / `load_recipe`
agreement, top-level non-mapping rejection. Added a malformed-row
test for `_normalize_rows` that asserts non-dict entries raise
`TypeError`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generating the documentation
To generate the documentation, you first have to build it. Several packages are necessary to build the doc, you can install them with the following command, at the root of the code repository:
pip install -e . -r docs-requirements.txt
You will also need nodejs. Please refer to their installation page
NOTE
You only need to generate the documentation to inspect it locally (if you're planning changes and want to
check how they look before committing for instance). You don't have to git commit the built documentation.
Building the documentation
Once you have setup the doc-builder and additional packages, you can generate the documentation by
typing the following command:
doc-builder build lerobot docs/source/ --build_dir ~/tmp/test-build
You can adapt the --build_dir to set any temporary folder that you prefer. This command will create it and generate
the MDX files that will be rendered as the documentation on the main website. You can inspect them in your favorite
Markdown editor.
Previewing the documentation
To preview the docs, first install the watchdog module with:
pip install watchdog
Then run the following command:
doc-builder preview lerobot docs/source/
The docs will be viewable at http://localhost:3000. You can also preview the docs once you have opened a PR. You will see a bot add a comment to a link where the documentation with your changes lives.
NOTE
The preview command only works with existing doc files. When you add a completely new file, you need to update _toctree.yml & restart preview command (ctrl-c to stop it & call doc-builder preview ... again).
Adding a new element to the navigation bar
Accepted files are Markdown (.md).
Create a file with its extension and put it in the source directory. You can then link it to the toc-tree by putting
the filename without the extension in the _toctree.yml file.
Renaming section headers and moving sections
It helps to keep the old links working when renaming the section header and/or moving sections from one document to another. This is because the old links are likely to be used in Issues, Forums, and Social media and it'd make for a much more superior user experience if users reading those months later could still easily navigate to the originally intended information.
Therefore, we simply keep a little map of moved sections at the end of the document where the original section was. The key is to preserve the original anchor.
So if you renamed a section from: "Section A" to "Section B", then you can add at the end of the file:
Sections that were moved:
[ <a href="#section-b">Section A</a><a id="section-a"></a> ]
and of course, if you moved it to another file, then:
Sections that were moved:
[ <a href="../new-file#section-b">Section A</a><a id="section-a"></a> ]
Use the relative style to link to the new file so that the versioned docs continue to work.
For an example of a rich moved sections set please see the very end of the transformers Trainer doc.
Adding a new tutorial
Adding a new tutorial or section is done in two steps:
- Add a new file under
./source. This file can either be ReStructuredText (.rst) or Markdown (.md). - Link that file in
./source/_toctree.ymlon the correct toc-tree.
Make sure to put your new file under the proper section. If you have a doubt, feel free to ask in a Github Issue or PR.
Writing source documentation
Values that should be put in code should either be surrounded by backticks: `like so`. Note that argument names
and objects like True, None or any strings should usually be put in code.
Writing a multi-line code block
Multi-line code blocks can be useful for displaying examples. They are done between two lines of three backticks as usual in Markdown:
```
# first line of code
# second line
# etc
```
Adding an image
Due to the rapidly growing repository, it is important to make sure that no files that would significantly weigh down the repository are added. This includes images, videos, and other non-text files. We prefer to leverage a hf.co hosted dataset like
the ones hosted on hf-internal-testing in which to place these files and reference
them by URL. We recommend putting them in the following dataset: huggingface/documentation-images.
If an external contribution, feel free to add the images to your PR and ask a Hugging Face member to migrate your images
to this dataset.