diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6a694299d..abf1f898b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1765,6 +1765,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "web-time",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "effectcraft-sam2"
+version = "0.9.2"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "effectcraft-script"
 version = "0.18.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index afc59257b..28a011f24 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ effectcraft-text = { path = "crates/text" }
 effectcraft-effects = { path = "crates/effects" }
 effectcraft-track = { path = "crates/track" }
 effectcraft-segment = { path = "crates/segment" }
+effectcraft-sam2 = { path = "crates/sam2" }
 effectcraft-model = { path = "crates/model" }
 effectcraft-render = { path = "crates/render" }
 effectcraft-gpu = { path = "crates/gpu" }
diff --git a/crates/sam2/Cargo.toml b/crates/sam2/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24c317bc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/sam2/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[package]
+name = "effectcraft-sam2"
+description = "SAM 2.1 (Hiera) video object tracker for the Roto Brush: a Rust port of the Hugging Face transformers implementation, native only, weights downloaded by the user"
+version.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+rust-version.workspace = true
+
+[lints]
+workspace = true
+
+[dependencies]
diff --git a/crates/sam2/NOTICE b/crates/sam2/NOTICE
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2dcb613fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/sam2/NOTICE
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+EffectCraft SAM 2 (effectcraft-sam2)
+Copyright the EffectCraft contributors.
+
+This crate is a Rust port of the SAM 2 implementation in Hugging Face `transformers`
+(`models/sam2` and `models/sam2_video`), Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team, which in turn
+implements "SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos" by Meta AI (facebookresearch/sam2).
+Both are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
+
+Each ported source file states that it is a modified work (Apache-2.0 section 4(b)).
+Model weights are not part of this crate; they are downloaded by the user from the official
+`facebook/sam2.1-hiera-*` repositories (Apache-2.0).
diff --git a/crates/sam2/src/lib.rs b/crates/sam2/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d41de59fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/sam2/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+//! SAM 2.1 video object tracker (Hiera backbone) for the Roto Brush.
+//!
+//! A Rust port of the Hugging Face `transformers` SAM 2 implementation (Apache-2.0; see
+//! `NOTICE`). Native only: the crate is empty on wasm32 so L0–L4 still build for the web.
+//! Nothing here loads weights unless asked to; weights are never bundled.
+//!
+//! Modules are added stage by stage, each checked against reference tensors produced by
+//! `tools/sam2_reference.py`.
+#![cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#![deny(clippy::unwrap_used, clippy::expect_used, clippy::panic, clippy::unimplemented, clippy::todo, clippy::unreachable)]
+
+use std::fmt;
+
+/// Everything that can go wrong in this crate. Never a panic.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Error {
+    /// The weights file is missing a tensor, has the wrong shape, or contains non-finite values.
+    Weights(String),
+    /// The input (frame size, prompt, frame index) is unusable.
+    Input(String),
+    /// The work was cancelled by the caller.
+    Cancelled,
+    /// A time or memory budget was exceeded.
+    Budget(String),
+}
+
+impl fmt::Display for Error {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            Error::Weights(m) => write!(f, "SAM 2 weights: {m}"),
+            Error::Input(m) => write!(f, "SAM 2 input: {m}"),
+            Error::Cancelled => write!(f, "SAM 2: cancelled"),
+            Error::Budget(m) => write!(f, "SAM 2 budget: {m}"),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl std::error::Error for Error {}
+
+pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, Error>;
+
+/// The released SAM 2.1 sizes. Only Tiny is wired up first; the others are configuration.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum Size {
+    Tiny,
+    Small,
+    BasePlus,
+    Large,
+}
+
+impl Size {
+    /// The Hugging Face repository the official weights come from.
+    pub fn repo(self) -> &'static str {
+        match self {
+            Size::Tiny => "facebook/sam2.1-hiera-tiny",
+            Size::Small => "facebook/sam2.1-hiera-small",
+            Size::BasePlus => "facebook/sam2.1-hiera-base-plus",
+            Size::Large => "facebook/sam2.1-hiera-large",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn sizes_name_their_official_repositories() {
+        assert_eq!(Size::Tiny.repo(), "facebook/sam2.1-hiera-tiny");
+        assert!(Size::Large.repo().ends_with("large"));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn errors_say_what_failed() {
+        assert!(Error::Input("empty frame".into()).to_string().contains("empty frame"));
+        assert_eq!(Error::Cancelled.to_string(), "SAM 2: cancelled");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/xtask/src/main.rs b/xtask/src/main.rs
index ad03cada7..401ed861e 100644
--- a/xtask/src/main.rs
+++ b/xtask/src/main.rs
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ const LAYERS: &[(&str, u8)] = &[
     ("expr", 3),
     ("export", 3),
     ("gpu", 3),
+    ("sam2", 3),
     ("lottie", 3),
     ("format", 3),
     ("plugin", 3),