> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kiteml.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create Object

> **Preview.** Usable today, but this endpoint can change before it is stable, without a new `Kite-Version`. Changes are announced before they ship.

Register a rigid pick-up object (USD, or GLB/glTF/OBJ converted on the worker). Validation runs on a GPU.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /v1/objects
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Kite Platform API
  description: >-
    Public API for Kite. Authenticate with `Authorization: Bearer kite_...`, and
    send `Kite-Version: 2026-09-27` to pin the dated contract your code was
    written against (without it you get 2026-09-27). Every response carries the
    version that served it.
  version: '2026-09-27'
servers:
  - url: https://api.kiteml.com
    description: Kite Platform API
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Augmentations
    description: Generate new episodes from a LeRobot dataset.
  - name: Training runs
    description: Fine-tune a policy on a dataset, one run per policy.
  - name: Twins
    description: Rebuild a robot episode as an interactable MuJoCo scene (private beta).
  - name: RL runs
    description: >-
      Train a robot policy in simulation from a task spec; get the policy, its
      scene and a verdict.
  - name: Evaluations
    description: >-
      Preview. Run a policy across simulated scenarios; get its success rate,
      failure reasons and edge cases.
  - name: Scenarios
    description: >-
      Preview. The scenarios an evaluation runs, and your own, composed from
      robots, tasks and objects.
  - name: Objects and environments
    description: Preview. Bring your own objects and environments to your scenarios.
  - name: Sim runs
    description: >-
      Preview. Run a Kite SDK spec on Kite's machines: episodes, evaluators and
      a scorecard (enabled per account).
  - name: Catalog
    description: Policies, hardware tiers, and dataset inspection.
  - name: Operations
    description: Poll any run by its id.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Endpoints that receive events, and the event log.
  - name: API keys
    description: The key making the request.
  - name: Usage
    description: Token usage and credit balance.
  - name: Requests
    description: >-
      The request log: every call of the last 30 days, who made it and how it
      ended.
  - name: Status
    description: Whether Kite is up, part by part. Needs no key.
paths:
  /v1/objects:
    post:
      tags:
        - Objects and environments
      summary: Create Object
      description: >-
        **Preview.** Usable today, but this endpoint can change before it is
        stable, without a new `Kite-Version`. Changes are announced before they
        ship.


        Register a rigid pick-up object (USD, or GLB/glTF/OBJ converted on the
        worker). Validation runs on a GPU.
      operationId: create_object_v1_objects_post
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/KiteVersion'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectCreate'
      responses:
        '202':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '400':
          description: >-
            Invalid request (`parameter_invalid`, `unsupported_version`, ...);
            `param` names the field
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API key (`unauthenticated`)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '403':
          description: >-
            The key lacks a scope this route needs (`missing_scope`), or the
            feature is not enabled for the account
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '429':
          description: >-
            Rate or concurrency limited (`rate_limit_exceeded`,
            `concurrency_limit_exceeded`, `capacity_exceeded`); honor
            `Retry-After`
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
components:
  parameters:
    KiteVersion:
      name: Kite-Version
      in: header
      required: false
      description: >-
        The dated contract your code was written against. Without it you get
        2026-09-27; every response says which version served it.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
          - '2026-09-27'
        default: '2026-09-27'
  schemas:
    ObjectCreate:
      properties:
        name:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              maxLength: 160
            - type: 'null'
          title: Name
        description:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              maxLength: 2000
            - type: 'null'
          title: Description
        usd_uri:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Usd Uri
          description: gs:// or https:// URL of a .usd/.usda/.usdc/.usdz
        glb_uri:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Glb Uri
          description: >-
            gs:// or https:// URL of a .glb/.gltf/.obj (converted to USD on the
            worker)
        upload:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/UploadSpec'
            - type: 'null'
          description: ask for a signed PUT URL instead of passing a URI
        scale:
          anyOf:
            - {}
            - type: 'null'
          title: Scale
          description: uniform number or [sx, sy, sz]
        mass_kg:
          anyOf:
            - type: number
              maximum: 1000
              exclusiveMinimum: 0
            - type: 'null'
          title: Mass Kg
        tags:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
          title: Tags
        up_axis:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Up Axis
          description: >-
            'Y' or 'Z' — how the geometry is authored (default: as the file
            declares)
        rotate_deg:
          anyOf:
            - items:
                type: number
              type: array
            - type: 'null'
          title: Rotate Deg
          description: extra [rx, ry, rz] rotation in degrees
      type: object
      title: ObjectCreate
    ApiErrorResponse:
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorBody'
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      title: ApiErrorResponse
      description: Every /v1 error has this shape.
    UploadSpec:
      properties:
        filename:
          type: string
          maxLength: 200
          title: Filename
          description: >-
            bare file name incl. extension
            (.usd/.usda/.usdc/.usdz/.glb/.gltf/.obj)
        content_type:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
              maxLength: 100
            - type: 'null'
          title: Content Type
        size_bytes:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
              minimum: 1
            - type: 'null'
          title: Size Bytes
      type: object
      required:
        - filename
      title: UploadSpec
    ApiErrorBody:
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          title: Type
          description: >-
            invalid_request_error, authentication_error, permission_error,
            not_found_error, conflict_error, rate_limit_error, or api_error
        code:
          type: string
          title: Code
          description: 'Machine-readable: branch on this, not on the message'
        message:
          type: string
          title: Message
        param:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Param
          description: The request field the error is about, when there is one
        request_id:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Request Id
          description: Also in the X-Request-Id header; quote it to support
        details:
          anyOf:
            - type: object
            - type: 'null'
          title: Details
          description: >-
            Extra data for some codes (e.g. the cameras a dataset does have, for
            camera_not_found)
      type: object
      required:
        - type
        - code
        - message
      title: ApiErrorBody
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        A Kite API key (`kite_...`), from **Platform API → Keys** in the
        dashboard.

````

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