{"slug": "meet-factory-droid-1-0-a-model-independent-coding-agent-harness-built-on-script", "title": "Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThe post [Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/31/factory-droid-1-0-frontier-harness/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-factory-droid-1-0-a-model-independent-coding-agent-harness-built-on-script", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/31/factory-droid-1-0-frontier-harness/", "published_at": "2026-10-31 10:38:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-31 12:19:26.965948+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Factory", "Droid 1.0", "Terminal-Bench 4", "Claude Opus 5.5"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-factory-droid-1-0-a-model-independent-coding-agent-harness-built-on-script", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-factory-droid-1-0-a-model-independent-coding-agent-harness-built-on-script.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-factory-droid-1-0-a-model-independent-coding-agent-harness-built-on-script.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meet-factory-droid-1-0-a-model-independent-coding-agent-harness-built-on-script.jsonld"}}