Earning Autonomy: From Missions to Workstreams

Seven months ago, Factory introduced Missions, an orchestrator that ran worker agents through a full project with validation at every milestone. Real customer projects showed its limits. It only handled code, it was built for older models, and its context belonged to one person instead of the team.

Luke Alvoeiro explains how Factory rebuilt it. A more token-efficient Droid made running many agents affordable. Environments let agents scale out inside a customer's own VPC. The new Missions gives each project a long-lived home with one orchestrator, shared context, and more autonomy as validation earns trust.

When a project moves into maintenance, its mission graduates into a workstream: agents that turn bug reports, alerts, and ideas into validated, shipped software.