Droid

Droid is an AI coding agent from Factory that runs across a terminal CLI, a desktop app, the web, and Slack. It handles the full software development lifecycle: planning, implementation, and testing, without changing your existing tools or workflows.

Run via the droid command in your project directory, it draws context from your repositories, docs, and issue tracker to generate relevant code changes, surfacing diffs for review before applying them.

Beyond single-session edits, Droid runs multi-agent Missions for planning, delegation, and validation, delegates to Custom Droids (specialized subagents), packages reusable procedures as Skills, connects external tools over MCP, and runs headless with droid exec for scripts, CI jobs, and PR checks.

It routes tasks to models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others. It works alongside Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, and Zed, plus any editor with an integrated terminal. It also integrates with GitHub and GitLab, Jira and Linear, Slack, and PagerDuty.

Official website: factory.ai

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Tutorial

AI Coding Agents Guide: A Map of the Four Workflow Types

AI coding agents come in four types: IDE, terminal, PR, and cloud. Learn how each workflow fits into modern Python development.

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By Leodanis Pozo Ramos • Updated Aug. 16, 2026
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