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Onboarding · For first-time developers
From zero to first deploy.
~12 minutes, honest.
This page is the honest version of "how fast can a new developer ship something?". Not the marketing 4-minute number (that's build time, not onboarding). 12 minutes is what we observe from "ran the install command" to "read the docs enough to confidently ship a feature" for someone who has never touched the stack. Your mileage will vary — pair programming with a senior cuts it to ~6 minutes.
Rapidinho — nos ajuda a ajustar sua documentação inicial.
Três perguntas pra direcionar você aos exemplos certos. Totalmente opcional — se você só quer instalar, é só pular.
Responda as três pra liberar Salvar. Ou aperte Pular — você decide.
The 5 minute-marked steps
- 0:00
Create your app
One command scaffolds a working agent — memory, search and chat UI wired. Apache-2.0, no account, no telemetry-by-default. Pick your stack interactively.
$ npx create-theokit my-app - 0:45
Enter your project
Your project is ready with theo.yaml, sensible defaults, health checks, structured logs, and a Dockerfile.
$ cd my-app && npm install - 2:15
Run it locally
The scaffold ships with a worked example for your stack. Run it locally first — no Theo runtime needed yet. Read the code, run the tests, edit a route.
$ npm run dev - 5:30
Deploy to the Starter free tier
Sign in with GitHub. theo deploy builds a signed image, runs health checks, and gives you a live HTTPS URL. No credit card.
$ theo login && theo deploy - 12:00
Find the docs you need
Read the TheoKit framework docs, the deploy/rollback/promote docs for TheoCloud, and the agent-shaped UI component docs. You now know enough to ship a feature.
Promises while you learn
You will not lose your code
TheoKit scaffolds standard repos. theo.yaml is open format. Containers are OCI standard. If you walk away from TheoCloud, your code keeps working — standard OCI images and an open theo.yaml rebuild on any container host.
You will not break production
Every deploy is rollback-able with theo rollback. Canary deploys on Pro+. Signed images block deploy on Critical CVEs. You learn the platform safely.
Read the docs
Agent templates, TheoKit framework + theokit-sdk, deploy/rollback/promote for TheoCloud.
Ask in Discord
Founders + 200+ developers. Onboarding questions answered within hours during US/BR working time.
Honest disclosure: 12 minutes is the median observed for developers who already know one of the supported stacks (Node, Go, Python, Rust, Java, Ruby, PHP, Next.js). First-time developers on those stacks will need 30-60 minutes — the bottleneck is reading and understanding the scaffold code, not Theo. We don't make claims we can't back up.