Release2026-10-12

Factory launched Environments for cloud agents. Environments define reusable sandboxes with repositories, tools and dependencies. Factory pre-builds and validates each Environment into portable images. Agents start work immediately without onboarding delays. Factory rebuilds Environments every few hours to keep them current. Only successful builds are promoted to agents. Environments enable Automations to run on fresh, validated sandboxes. Agent Readiness scores repositories for agent productivity. Missions require level four readiness to run effectively. Environments let teams fan out fixes across multiple sandboxes. Admins centrally manage Environments and enforce policies. Environments are available now on all plans.

What changed

Agents had to onboard to each new sandbox from scratch.

What it unlocks

Running agents in parallel across pre-configured, validated sandboxes.

  • most enterprise customers start at Agent Readiness level two
  • Missions work best at level four or above

What you need to act on it

  • a Factory plan

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