Factory Droid

Mission side panel, add project folder, and PDF, MCP auth, and markdown fixes

New features

• Mission side panel - Added a unified Mission side panel for managing missions (app)
• Add project folder - New button to add a local project folder, streamlining local project setup (app)

Improvements

• Consistent text editing - Text-editing keys now behave consistently across all input fields

Bug fixes

• /clear preserves model - /clear now keeps your current model and autonomy settings
• Password-protected PDFs - Password-protected PDFs no longer lock up the session
• MCP authentication - MCP sign-ins now refresh tokens silently and avoid duplicate authentication prompts
• Markdown line breaks - Soft line breaks in markdown now render correctly

MCP connect timeouts, theme detection over SSH, and mission, model, and notification fixes

Improvements

• Context usage on resume - Context usage now displays immediately when you resume a session
• Windows installer architecture - The CLI installer now detects the native Windows architecture

Bug fixes

• MCP connection timeout - stdio MCP servers now time out on connect instead of hanging
• Grep and Glob timeouts - Grep and Glob timeouts now surface as actionable errors
• Theme detection over SSH - Fixed theme auto-detection over remote terminal sessions
• Todo status colors - Todo status colors now render correctly
• Completion notification - The turn-completion notification now fires before the CLI exits
• Subagent reports - The end-of-turn todo reminder no longer swallows subagent reports
• Mission settings - Fixed updating mission settings in the desktop app (app)
• Mission notifications - Mission mode now fires audio and badge notifications (app)
• Model defaults - Model defaults now persist correctly (app)
• Reasoning tooltip - The reasoning tooltip now dismisses when you start typing (app)

macOS process sandbox, spec rendering fixes, and MCP session improvements

New features

• macOS command sandbox - Added whole-process sandbox support on macOS for safer command execution

Improvements

• Clearer send button - The composer now explains why the send button is disabled (app)
• Safer web tools - WebSearch and FetchUrl now require at least low autonomy before they run

Bug fixes

• Image-only messages - Fixed sending messages that contain only an image
• Plan todos - Plan todo lists are now bounded and the full todo displays correctly
• Wide tables - Wide markdown tables now scroll horizontally
• MCP footer - The MCP status footer now appears immediately
• MCP session notices - MCP status and auth notices now stay scoped to their session instead of leaking into untouched sessions
• Spec rendering - Spec contents now render in the approval details screen, and the spec body shows when the plan heading matches the title
• Update rollback - Hardened the update rollback flow (app)

Pin local sessions, working directory in the desktop app, and CLI and app fixes

New features

• Pin local sessions - You can now pin local sessions that aren't synced to the cloud (app)
• Working directory in desktop - The desktop app now brings your current working directory into the session (app)

Improvements

• Slash command search - Improved slash command search results
• Skills count - The header now shows an accurate skills count
• Wiki permalinks - Added repository permalink support in wikis

Bug fixes

• Session token usage - Session token usage is now counted only on successful turns
• Unread sessions - Unrelated unread sessions are preserved when a window regains focus (app)
• Notification hook - The idle_prompt Notification hook now fires on cancelled turns
• Reasoning effort - set-default now preserves your session reasoning effort
• Bash mode - Pressing backspace on empty input now exits bash mode
• Spec proposals - Empty spec proposal bodies are now rejected
• Ghostty Open In - Fixed launching Ghostty from the Open In deeplink (app)

Port-forwarding for droid computers, faster startup and search, and Windows and Linux fixes

New features

• Port-forward for droid computers - New droid computer port-forward command to forward ports from a droid computer to your local machine

Improvements

• Faster app startup - Startup boot phases now run in parallel, reducing time to a usable window (app)
• Faster session search - Session search is quicker and returns better-ranked results
• Full-screen help - Help now opens as a full-screen overlay you can dismiss with ? or Esc
• Slash menu filtering - Filtered slash menu results are flattened with a clearer category block
• Cleaner model names - Model names display more clearly across the app (app)
• Cleaner chat transcript - Internal tool lookups no longer clutter the chat transcript (app)
• Update rollback - The app can now roll back to a previous version when needed (app)

Bug fixes

• Image paste on Windows - Fixed pasting images into the composer on Windows
• Safe exit during updates - You can now exit safely while a background update is in progress

Grouped slash commands, cloud sync control, and MCP and login fixes

New features

• Grouped slash commands - Slash commands are now organized by category for easier browsing
• Cloud sync control - New setting to control whether your data syncs to the cloud (app)

Improvements

• Linear model picker - Model names now display cleanly in the Linear delegation picker (app)
• Computer provisioning wizard - Clarified copy in the droid computer provisioning wizard (app)

Bug fixes

• MCP tool names - Tool names containing dots are now accepted per the MCP specification
• MCP authentication - Restored sign-in to MCP servers that reject certain OAuth client registration
• Background processes in droid exec - Agent-spawned background processes now keep running after droid exec exits
• Editor for allow/deny lists - The CLI now honors $EDITOR when editing allow and deny lists on headless hosts
• Gemini reasoning - Fixed handling of invalid Gemini reasoning blocks
• Droid computer SSH - Fixed connecting to a droid computer by its exact name
• Cross-org login - Fixed login issues when working across multiple organizations (app)

Cloned repos in projects, lower memory use, and rendering and auth fixes

New features

• Cloned repos in projects - Cloned repositories now appear in the new-session projects dropdown (app)

Improvements

• Lower memory usage - Reduced memory use during long and idle sessions
• Word-wise navigation - Option+Left/Right now jumps between words in secondary text inputs

Bug fixes

• Resumed hooks - Hook rows now render correctly after you resume a session
• File encoding - Edited files now keep their original encoding instead of always saving as UTF-8
• MCP authentication - Restored basic auth fallback when signing in to MCP servers over OAuth
• Org switching - Fixed selecting the active organization when switching organizations, including in the EU (app)

Plugin toggles, tab slash-command completion, and login and rendering fixes

New features

• Enable and disable plugins - Turn individual plugins on or off with a new toggle

Improvements

• Tab to complete slash commands - Press Tab to complete slash commands
• MCP authentication - Improved handling of MCP authentication responses and desktop redirects
• Account credit checkout - Subscribe to or upgrade your plan using account credit

Bug fixes

• Invalid API key login - The CLI now exits with an error on an invalid FACTORY_API_KEY instead of stalling at login
• Cancel AskUser prompts - Cancelling an AskUser prompt now interrupts the agent instead of letting it continue
• Duplicate tool approvals - Approval-gated tool executions now render only once
• Windows background processes - Fixed cleanup of background processes on exit on Windows
• Document skills location - Document skills are now written to your current working directory
• Dark mode toggles - Dark mode toggles are now visible and loading spinners animate correctly (app)
• Editable composer - The composer stays editable during session blockers (app)

Conversation rewind and reliability fixes

New features

• Rewind conversation - The new /rewind-conversation command rewinds the chat and restores your files to an earlier point (app)
• Org hooks governance - Organizations can now centrally control hooks settings across their members

Improvements

• Clickable message links - URLs in your messages are now clickable
• Light terminal colors - Improved white rendering in the light terminal theme

Bug fixes

• Reasoning indicator - Non-thinking models no longer show a reasoning indicator
• Execute step shimmer - Fixed a stale loading shimmer left on completed execute steps
• Windows hooks - Preserved command quoting for hooks on Windows
• MCP server logos - MCP server logos now keep their original colors

Command-line autonomy flag, org MCP and marketplace controls, and reliability fixes

New features

• Autonomy flag - Set Droid's autonomy level straight from the command line with droid --auto high
• Org MCP and marketplace controls - Organizations can centrally govern MCP server and plugin marketplace access
• In-app membership controls - Manage organization members directly in the app (app)

Improvements

• Private npm registry plugins - Plugin sources can now authenticate to private npm registries using an auth token environment variable
• Onboarding copy - Clearer guidance during Droid setup onboarding (app)

Bug fixes

• Status after interrupt - Droid's status now clears correctly after you interrupt it
• Event hooks - Multiple hooks configured for the same event are now combined correctly
• Summaries across directories - Fixed conversation summaries when your working directory changes
• Streaming placeholder - Fixed a stale placeholder that could linger in the chat (app)
• Connection stability - Reduced session UI flicker during brief connection drops (app)