Factory Droid v0.177.0 Changelog
What changed in Droid CLI v0.177.0, released 2026-07-21 — explained in plain English.
TLDR
- You can now open file previews outside the app using your computer's default program.
- You can send chat messages that are just files, with no text required.
- Code snippets are easier to read thanks to a new font.
- Several annoying bugs—like weird warning messages and frozen screens—are gone.
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This update is all about making the app smoother and less frustrating to use. It’s especially helpful if you spend a lot of time chatting, sharing files, or running automated tasks, because it cleans up background glitches and makes your work easier to look at.
What's new
- Open files outside the app: When you get a preview of a file (an "artifact"), you can now click to open it in whatever program your computer normally uses for that kind of file.
Improvements
- Clearer code font: When you're looking at computer code in the app, it now uses a font called "Geist Mono." This style makes every letter line up neatly, making the code much easier to read.
- Messages with only files: You used to have to type something to send a chat message. Now, you can send a message that contains only an attached file, like an image or document.
Fixes
- Typing clash fixed: On some keyboards, pressing Option+E to type an accent mark (like in "café") used to accidentally trigger a shortcut to open approval details. That interference is fixed.
- Frozen screen fixed: After looking at a project's plan details, the chat log (transcript) used to sometimes glitch out and not draw correctly on the screen. It now refreshes properly.
- Fake warning removed: If you removed a computer from the system, it used to pop up a scary warning saying it was saving or "archiving" your session. That warning was a mistake and is now gone.
- Pausing fixed: When running automated tasks ("missions"), they used to keep running even if the main system manager (the orchestrator) got interrupted. They now pause correctly.
- Background cleanup: Sometimes, when the app used a built-in browser to do automated work, the background processes wouldn't close properly and got left running invisibly. The app now reliably cleans up these leftover "orphaned" processes.
- Clearer broken sessions: If a chat session gets corrupted and can't be opened, the app used to just sit there. Now, it clearly tells you that the session is unavailable.
- Color fix: The visual tags for different "skills" (tools the app can use) were showing up with the wrong colors. They now display correctly.
Breaking changes
No breaking changes in this release.
This is our plain-language summary. Read the complete, official notes on the Factory Droid official changelog ↗.
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