Advanced Installation

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Telekinesis Agent

Install the Tzara VS Code extension and connect it to your Telekinesis and Anthropic API keys.

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Vendor Camera Extras

Install optional extras for IDS, Intel RealSense, Zivid, and other vendor cameras.

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Telekinesis Agent

Tzara is the Telekinesis Physical AI Agent for VS Code. It turns natural-language instructions into robot code using your Telekinesis skills. Install it once and start building physical AI applications from your editor.

Tzara installation walkthrough.

Install the VS Code extension

1. Open the Extensions view (Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows/Linux, Cmd+Shift+X on macOS).
2. Search for Tzara by Telekinesis.
3. Click Install.

Generate your API keys

Key	Where to get it
TELEKINESIS_API_KEY	platform.telekinesis.ai/api-keys
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	console.anthropic.com/settings/keys

Set the API keys

Windows PowerShell

setx ANTHROPIC_API_KEY "<your_key>"
$env:ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="<your_key>"

# Verify
echo $env:ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

bash

echo 'export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="<your_key>"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

# Verify
echo $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

zsh

echo 'export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="<your_key>"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

# Verify
echo $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

fish

echo 'set -gx ANTHROPIC_API_KEY "<your_key>"' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish && source ~/.config/fish/config.fish

# Verify
echo $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

Key not printing?

Close all VS Code windows, restart VS Code, and open a fresh terminal.

Run Tzara

1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).
2. Type Tzara and select Tzara: Open Chat.
3. Send a quick Hi Tzara!. A reply confirms Tzara is live.

TIP

The Tzara icon lives in the top-right of VS Code. Click it any time to reopen the chat.

Vendor Camera Extras

Make sure you have completed the Quickstart before installing camera extras — the base telekinesis-ai SDK must be installed first.

USB webcams work out of the box. For vendor cameras, install the matching extra.

Camera	Extra
IDS (2D)	pip install "telekinesis-ai[medulla-ids]"
Intel RealSense (RGB-D)	pip install "telekinesis-ai[medulla-realsense]"
Zivid (3D)	pip install "telekinesis-ai[medulla-zivid]"

Next Steps

Tutorials

Set Cartesian Pose, Set Joint Positions, Capture from Webcam, Voxel Downsampling, and more.

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Skills

Vision, 3D, hardware, and robotics skills — the full API reference.

Agents

Turn natural-language instructions into robot code with Tzara, the VS Code agent.

Data Engine

Generate and manage synthetic datasets for training Physical AI models.

BabyROS

Lightweight pub/sub and service primitives for building robot communication layers.

Applications

Real-world use cases: pick-and-place, palletizing, quality inspection, and more.

Support

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