Factory's Missions: The Emerging Primitive for Decomposing Large-Scale Agent Work
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-10-31
Factory introduced its Missions feature in early 2025 to let coding agents take on work far larger than a single session or worker. A Mission decomposes a goal into features that agents execute step by step, which the author frames as an emerging primitive for agent work — signaling a shift from chat-style sessions toward structured, long-running engineering tasks.
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