Factory Droid v0.236.0

Factory Droid v0.236.0 was released on .

Summary

CLI v0.236.0, Desktop v0.193.0: Terminal activity status, Script permission requests, skills in delegated tasks, plus CLI and app fixes New features - Terminal activity status - Terminals that supp...

Release Context

  • This was the 40th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 2 days after Factory Droid v0.234.0 (October 6, 2026).

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Release Notes

CLI v0.236.0, Desktop v0.193.0: Terminal activity status, Script permission requests, skills in delegated tasks, plus CLI and app fixes New features - Terminal activity status - Terminals that support it now show whether Droid is working, waiting on you, or done Improvements - Headers in managed settings - Organization-managed custom model settings can now carry request headers that hold no credentials - Faster session opening - Opening a session no longer waits on a load that never started (app) - Active tool call summaries - Tool summaries now read in present tense with counts while Droid is still working (app) - Resume by session link - Droid resume now accepts a session link in place of the session id Bug fixes - Script permission requests - Script calls whose input is built at run time now ask for permission when they run - Custom Droid models - A custom Droid set to inherit now keeps the session's model and reasoning effort - Slash command menu flicker - The slash command menu no longer blinks a loading row or flashes the footer - Sessions that pull from origin - A first message that pulls from origin no longer leaves the session stuck on a slow fetch (app) - Disabled models in session defaults - Models your organization disabled now show as unavailable in session default settings (app) - Session search while typing - Session search now waits for a pause in your typing instead of piling up searches (app) - Wiki upload cleanup - A wiki upload that asks for cleanup now keeps your local files unless every target succeeded - Skills in delegated tasks - A task delegated with a leading skill command now starts instead of being refused - Startup errors in the terminal - Startup failures such as an unknown session id or a bad folder now print in the terminal - Search limit validation - Session search now rejects an invalid limit instead of silently using a different number - Exec input format validation - Droid exec now rejects an unknown input format and a message passed with streaming input - Status pane input - Opening the status pane no longer erases text you type right after it - Images on custom models - Sending an image to a model that cannot read images now explains how to fix it - Custom model credential timeouts - A credential command that times out now reports the timeout instead of waiting through another run - Resuming your own model sessions - Droid exec now resumes a session on your own model credentials without a Factory sign-in - Dropped file paths - A file path dropped into the composer is now sent as a message instead of an unknown command

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