Factory launches Droid 1.0, a coding agent harness using programmatic tool calling
AIFactory releases Droid 1.0, an agent harness that runs model-written JavaScript programs to make tool calls. In Terminal-Bench 4 tests, Factory says Droid scores higher than the compared harnesses at lower cost on the same models.
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The post explains how programmatic tool calling and cache-aware prompt changes reduce cost and latency in a coding agent harness, with per-model benchmark and production figures.
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Original title: Droid 1.0: Building a Frontier Harness