Factory Droid is Factory’s software engineering agent. The canonical product name is Droid; “Factory Droid” is the form used here for disambiguation. The proposition is to bring the same agent to different surfaces, from the terminal to the cloud.
What it’s for
- Executing multi-step engineering tasks from a description
- Running the agent interactively in the terminal or automatically in scripts and CI
- Organizing missions with several agents and specialized subagents
- Bringing the same flow to the editor, the app and messaging integrations
How it works
- The CLI has an interactive mode and a headless mode with text or structured output
- You can define subagents and autonomy levels, from the most contained to the most permissive
- Extra capabilities come from skills, plugins and the MCP protocol
- The agent is model-independent and accepts your own key or custom models
Where it runs
- Command line, including headless execution
- Desktop app and web/mobile versions
- Editor plugins, through an agent protocol
- CI pipelines, messaging integrations and management tools
Availability and licensing
- Proprietary product, with a package distributed under a license that does not allow use to build a competing product
- The public repository is for documentation and community, not the agent’s code
- Official SDKs are available for automation integration
How it differs
- The same runtime covers terminal, editor, cloud and CI instead of separate surfaces
- Multi-agent missions and subagents are part of the product core
- The entry describes the Factory agent, not the company as a whole
Things to note
- Higher-autonomy modes widen what the agent may change without confirmation
- Some features depend on the plan and configured integrations
- Reviewing permissions and diffs remains part of the flow