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AI CURATED HOT STORY · 10/31/2026

Factory Releases Droid 1.0 with Programmatic Tool Calling

1 reports archived1 independent sourcesupdated 10/31/2026, 18:40:09
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Factory has released Droid 1.0, a new harness engine for coding agents featuring default 'programmatic tool calling'. This mechanism allows models to write sandboxed JavaScript to invoke tools, returning only printed output to the model while isolating raw files and logs. Benchmark results on Terminal-Bench 4 show improvements over competitors, though data is self-reported and task duration increases slightly.

LATEST/Factory has released Droid 1.0, a new harness engine for coding agents featuring default 'programmatic tool calling'. This mechanism allows models to write sandboxed JavaScript to invoke tools, returning only printed output to the model while isolating raw files and logs. Benchmark results on Terminal-Bench 4 show improvements over competitors, though data is self-reported and task duration increases slightly.

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  1. Marktechpost (@Marktechpost)T2·78 pts

    Factory Releases Droid 1.0 with Programmatic Tool Calling

    • Droid 1.0 defaults to programmatic tool calling, where models execute tool chains by writing JavaScript within a sandbox.
    • This approach effectively isolates raw data (files, logs), returning only necessary printed output to the model context to optimize token usage.
    • On Terminal-Bench 4, it scores 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 (vs 57.6% for Claude Code); costs are 12% lower but per-task duration increases by 10%.