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Factory Droid
Factory's proprietary 'Droid' agent: terminal CLI plus desktop Factory App, headless droid exec, delegations from Slack/Linear/Jira, cloud Droid Computers and Missions; BYOK and local models alongside Factory-served models.
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Factory release notes: CLI v0.249.0 / Desktop v0.206.0 on 2026-10-24 (near-daily releases); docs moved from docs.factory.ai to docs.factory.com. (checked 2026-10-25)
In Coding agents
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (71% of 21 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? company with a paid product, tier, or ads (71% of 21 others)
- Who is it for? developers (95% of 21 others)
- Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. any provider or endpoint you configure (your own key, custom URL, or local model) (67% of 21 others)
- Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? yes, documented (67% of 21 others)
- Where do the commands it runs execute by default? on your machine with your user's permissions (86% of 21 others)
- Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? yes (95% of 21 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Amp 82% of 17 shared answers match
- OpenAI Codex CLI 76% of 17 shared answers match
- GitHub Copilot 71% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | proprietary or closed source Public repo is docs/issues only. | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | company with a paid product, tier, or ads Pro $20, Plus $100, Max $200/mo; org plans. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | partly (some features need the maker's servers) CLI runs locally with local models possible, but needs a Factory account; airgapped deployment is enterprise-only. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | account required Browser sign-in to Factory on first run. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-25 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | AGENTS.md AGENTS.md is its main instructions file; MCP and ACP too. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you primarily use it? | terminal (CLI or TUI) CLI-first; also Factory App desktop and IDE integrations via terminal/ACP. | source 2026-10-25 |
| How does finished work usually come back to you? | both are first-class 'Cloud and local background agents'; droid exec recipes open PRs; Slack/Linear delegations. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. | any provider or endpoint you configure (your own key, custom URL, or local model) Factory-served multi-vendor models plus BYOK custom models. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? | yes, documented 'run models locally on your hardware'. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Out of the box, does it ask you before editing files or running shell commands? | asks before edits and before commands sessionDefaultSettings.autonomyLevel defaults to 'off' (manual approvals; only reads run freely). droid exec is read-only by default. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Where do the commands it runs execute by default? | on your machine with your user's permissions OS-level sandbox exists but must be enabled (sandbox.enabled: true). | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? | yes | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? | yes, AGENTS.md is its main instructions file | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it use the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for agent-editor connections? | yes, as an agent that editors can drive droid exec --output-format acp for JetBrains and Zed. | source 2026-10-25 |
| When you first set it up, how do you pay for the models it uses by default? | a subscription plan from the tool's maker Plus prepaid Extra Usage credits; BYOK free up to an allowance. | source 2026-10-25 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/Factory-AI/factory · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/autonomy-and-safety/sandbox.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/changelog/release-notes.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/droid-cli/settings.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/harness/agents-md.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/ide-integrations.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/llms.txt · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/model-independence/byok.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.factory.com/pricing/individuals.md · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · factory.ai/ · read 2026-10-25
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