Factory Droid v0.242.0

Factory Droid v0.242.0 was released on .

Summary

CLI v0.242.0, Desktop v0.199.0: Ask Side Chat about highlighted text, resume a session by id, and CLI and app fixes New features - Ask Side Chat about text - Highlighting Droid's response now offer...

Release Context

  • This was the 47th Factory Droid release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
  • It shipped 2 days after Factory Droid v0.240.0 (October 13, 2026).

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Release Notes

CLI v0.242.0, Desktop v0.199.0: Ask Side Chat about highlighted text, resume a session by id, and CLI and app fixes New features - Ask Side Chat about text - Highlighting Droid's response now offers Ask side chat, which opens the side chat with the text quoted - Resume a session by id - The new /resume command, and /sessions, now open a session directly when you pass its id - Continue a spec in chat - An approved spec can now continue in a new chat that starts with the spec's context Bug fixes - Request timeout retries - A request that times out is now retried instead of immediately failing your turn - Custom model output limits - Requests to a custom model now stay within the output limit configured for it - Output after a model switch - A turn that switches models no longer keeps the first model's unfinished reasoning or tool calls - Browser pane auto-open - The desktop browser pane now opens only after Droid loads a page, and stays closed briefly after you dismiss it - Secret scan time limit - Scanning a long push history now gets more time before the scan blocks the command - Connector logos while scrolling - Connector logos in a tool summary no longer paint over the pinned message while you scroll - Deleted Slack message error - A request started from a Slack message that was deleted now returns a clear error - Long responses cut short - A response cut off mid-stream is now retried so the turn can finish - Duplicate usage reports - Usage reported for your own model key is no longer recorded twice when a report is retried - Right pane key presses - Pressing Enter on a right pane control no longer answers a pending question in chat - Automation folder icons - A project group in the sidebar now shows the automation folder icon only when every session is an automation - Process kill commands - Droid now refuses a kill command that would signal its own process Security - Excel skill dependencies - The Excel skill now installs a pinned spreadsheet library and skips its install scripts

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