Factory Droid

• Delegating a scoped feature from the terminal and reviewing Droid's proposed diff before it edits files
• Running automated pull request and security reviews in CI with Droid Exec
• Planning and executing a large migration as a Mission with milestones and validation checkpoints
• Having Droid investigate a production alert posted in Slack
• Generating and auto-refreshing a repository wiki with AutoWiki
• Rolling out a governed coding agent to a large engineering organization with SSO, audit logs, and model policies

Factory's pitch is that one agent harness should cover the whole delivery loop, from a developer's terminal to CI review bots, incident response, and large multi-feature Missions, on whichever models an organization prefers. The breadth is documented, and the deployment options run from Factory-managed cloud to air-gapped builds. The costs are complexity and predictability. There is no free plan, rolling limits and model multipliers make heavy use hard to forecast, and several team features are still in private preview. It fits engineering organizations standardizing on one governed agent platform better than individuals looking for a quick coding assistant.

About Factory Droid

Droid is the agent at the center of Factory, and it runs the same harness on every surface. The Factory App is a desktop workspace for macOS and Windows. The Droid CLI installs on macOS, Linux, and Windows (via script, Homebrew, or npm) and runs in any editor terminal, with deeper integrations for VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf through an extension, JetBrains IDEs through the Agent Client Protocol, and Zed. `droid exec` is a headless mode for CI/CD and scripts that is read-only by default. Sessions can sync to the web and mobile at app.factory.ai. On top of the core agent, Factory adds structure for larger work. Missions have you agree on a plan of features and milestones up front, then an orchestrator coordinates workers and validates progress in Mission Control. Software Factory automations cover pull request code review, security review, automated QA, AutoWiki documentation, incident response from Slack alerts, and custom automations triggered on a schedule, from Slack, by GitHub events, or by webhooks. Droid Computers are persistent environments that keep installed packages, files, and running services between sessions. Factory can host them (on Plus and higher plans), or you can register your own VPS, workstation, or on-prem server. Factory is model-agnostic. It offers Claude, GPT-6 and GPT-5.6, Gemini, Grok, and a pool of open-weight models called Droid Core, each billed at a published usage multiplier. Factory Router can pick the model for each task automatically, and BYOK custom models work in the CLI and desktop app. The harness supports AGENTS.md, MCP, skills, hooks, plugins, custom subagents, four autonomy levels, OS-level sandboxing, and Droid Shield secret scanning. Individual plans are $20, $100, and $200 a month and are governed by rolling 5-hour, 7-day, and 30-day rate limits. There is no free plan. For enterprises, Factory offers a Factory-hosted control plane (Factory Managed), a VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped option (Factory Private, in private preview), and a FedRAMP option whose authorization is in progress. The tradeoff is scope. Factory is a platform with many moving parts, several enterprise features are still in private preview, and usage-limited plans make heavy use harder to predict than a flat subscription.