# Factory releases Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness with script-mode tool calling

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

- Source: MarkTechPost
- Published: 2026-10-31T10:38:14.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/irv5ujrnnsc9iazmjdsk9jj35
- Original: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/31/factory-droid-1-0-frontier-harness/

## Summary

Factory has released Droid 1.0, a model-independent coding agent harness whose programmatic tool calling is now on by default. In its own Terminal-Bench 4 runs, Droid scored 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 at $4.73 per passed task, and the article notes that Codex was faster with GPT-6.1 Sol. The release also cut the base prompt 37%, to 13,055 input tokens, and ships as a desktop app, a terminal UI and a Node SDK.