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Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode

Factory released Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness that makes programmatic tool calling its default mode, the company said. On Factory's own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scored 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 at $4.73 per passed task. The release targets developers building coding agents who want model flexibility and lower cost per completed task.

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Factory released Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness that makes programmatic tool calling the default. On Factory’s own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scores 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 at $4.73 per passed task.

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