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Factory IDE | AI Coding Agents

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Clipped on: 2025-11-10

Factory Product

Terminal/IDE: Droids Where You Code

Factory meets you in your editor without forcing a switch. Delegate to Droids in any IDE or terminal: VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, and more. All while maintaining your workflow, tools, and shortcuts.

Install Factory CLI

> curl -fsSL https://app.factory.ai/cli | sh

Key Features

Don't switch your IDE

Works natively everywhere: VSCode (and its forks), JetBrains, Vim, and more. Don't force your team to switch IDEs, Factory meets developers in their preferred environment.

Feature-rich terminal experience

Slash commands, custom subagents, native diff viewing, context tagging, and more. You'll be surprised how much we packed into a simple and snappy experience.

Adjustable autonomy levels

Fine-tune how independently your agent operates. Allow certain changes automatically while requiring approval for others. From fully supervised to autonomous execution, you set the boundaries.

Value propositions

Unlock the best models

Choose Claude, GPT, Gemini, or any model per task.No vendor lock-in – always use the best model for the job, and switch instantly based on performance or cost.

Million-line codebases, instant understanding

Agentic search comprehends entire repositories without manual context selection. Make coordinated changes across hundreds of files confidently.

Explicit control, never surprise changes

Review every modification before it touches your files. A clear permission model ensures you maintain complete control over your codebase.

Features

One platform. Every workflow.

Consistent memory, no switching

Droids keep their knowledge across tools and platforms. They can follow you through your workflow without losing context.

Droids where you need them

Terminal and IDE to collaborate. Browser, Slack, Jira to delegate. CLI to automate.

Start small, scale fast

Begin within the IDE, and expand into your full workflow, from design docs to review automation.

Testimonials

“As a fintech company handling sensitive financial data, we were concerned about how to leverage AI while maintaining strict data privacy and security standards. Factory provided us with a secure, controlled way to unify our engineering context without compromising our compliance requirements. The difference between that and having sensitive information flowing into random LLMs is night and day. ”

Gian Perrone

CTO, Nav

“Factory is the future of software engineering—where AI handles the heavy lifting, and humans guide the vision, gaining extraordinary leverage with every line of code. ”

Justin Ammerlaan

CTO, Tilt

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