Factory Blog · Oct 30, 2026 · 12:22 AM

Factory ships Droid 1.0, making scripted tool calls the default so one request can run hundreds of tools

Released this week, Droid 1.0 lets the model write a sandboxed JavaScript Script that runs many tool calls in one request (Factory says it cuts cost 15% on Opus 5.5), trims the base prompt 37%, and ships a @factory/droid-sdk for building on the same harness. On Factory's own Terminal-Bench 4 runs it beat Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode and Devin on the same models at lower cost, but those numbers are self-reported.

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