Factory made programmatic tool calling the default in Droid 1.0. The model writes JavaScript that runs in a sandbox with no file, network or system access of its own, and one model request can trigger hundreds of tool calls.
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Factory reports its harness, which writes programs to call tools, scored higher at lower cost on Terminal-Bench 4 in its own runs.
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