Droid 1.0

Droid 1.0 is Factory's new enterprise coding-agent harness, introduced October 29, 2026. An agent harness is everything around the model—prompts, tools, result shaping, and the loop. Droid 1.0 makes programmatic tool calling (Code Mode) the default: the model writes a sandboxed JavaScript script that can run hundreds of tool calls in one request.

Launch: factory.com/news/frontier-harness · Changelog: docs.factory.com · Surfaces: Desktop, CLI, @factory/droid-sdk

Key points

1. Named milestone: marketed as Droid 1.0 / "the new engine behind Factory's agent" with an official Introducing thread.
2. Code Mode: one example task (move + verify 151 Linear issues) dropped from ~36 requests / 3.1M input tokens to 2 requests / ~61K when expressed as a Script.
3. Claims: up to ~20% better efficiency than popular models' native harnesses on Terminal-Bench 4; Internal Agent Factory tests every change across model families.
4. Access: macOS/Windows desktop, terminal CLI, and Droid SDK for embedding the same harness.
5. Traction: @FactoryAI Introducing post (~903 likes, ~136k impressions) plus CN/EN secondary coverage in the following hours.

Why it matters

Teams comparing agent harnesses will search Droid 1.0 specifically for the Code Mode / PTC default—first time this radar captured the Factory Droid line as a proper noun.

How to try it

1. Read the frontier-harness post and install the Factory desktop app or CLI (v1.0.0).
2. Run a multi-tool workflow and confirm Code Mode / Script tool is the default for your model family.
3. Embed via @factory/droid-sdk if you need the same harness from Node or a daemon client.

Confirm enterprise SSO / data-handling terms before pointing Droid at production repos.