Factory

Works with the CLI alone. No gander.md account.

Factory is an AI-native software development platform. Its Droids take complete tasks like refactors, incident response, and migrations without changing your tools, models, or workflow.

Factory's coding agent (Droid) loads skills from ~/.factory/skills and .factory/skills. gander skill does not write that dest, so add a symlink after install. MCP is a stdio server in Factory's MCP config (~/.factory or the in-app MCP panel).

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://release.gander.md/install.sh | bash
gander --version

After Homebrew or a source build, run gander skill.

mkdir -p ~/.factory/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.factory/skills/gander
ls -l ~/.factory/skills/gander/SKILL.md

Restart Droid / Factory. Ask it to list skills or to gander a markdown file.

3. Sign up and add MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]

Add a stdio MCP server named gander, command gander, args mcp. If Factory uses a Cursor-style JSON file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gander": {
      "command": "gander",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

4. Use it

  1. Ask Factory for a plan as markdown, then gander this file.
  2. gander watch plan.md after signup.
  3. Send the hosted URL.
  4. @agent comments come through MCP. Factory edits the local file.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments
ls ~/.factory/skills/gander

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