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id: "factory-now-supports-slackhq-delegations-b8719e"
slug: "factory-now-supports-slackhq-delegations-b8719e"
title: "Factory now supports @SlackHQ delegations."
description: "Factory has documented Slack delegations for Droid, its coding agent."
retrieval_nugget: "Factory has documented Slack delegations for Droid, its coding agent."
published_at: "2026-10-22"
updated_at: "2026-10-22"
record_date: "2026-10-22"
date_kind: "published_at"
topics: ["harness-engineering","agent-runtime"]
entities: ["Factory","Droid","Slack"]
related_patterns: ["harness-architecture-outlives-model-choice","agent-ready-software-exposes-capabilities"]
novelty_label: "new_fact"
what_changed: "Factory now documents Slack delegations in the app: teams can mention @Factory in channels or DM it to run Droid, with channel work using shared service-account configuration and DMs using personal identity."
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source_url: "https://docs.factory.com/delegations/slack"
source_urls: ["https://docs.factory.com/delegations/slack"]
schema_version: "newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2"
stable_id: "post:factory-now-supports-slackhq-delegations-b8719e"
status: "published"
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editor: {"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]}
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# Factory now supports @SlackHQ delegations.

## Retrieval answer

Factory has documented Slack delegations for Droid, its coding agent.

Factory has documented Slack delegations for Droid, its coding agent. Teams can mention @Factory in a Slack channel or send it a direct message to request investigation, implementation, and testing work. Droid posts progress and results back to the same conversation.

Channel requests run with an organization's shared Apps configuration and service-account identity. Direct messages use the requesting person's Factory identity, Git credentials, and connected apps. Setup requires a Factory organization on a paid plan, a Manager or Owner role, Slack workspace admin access, and configured compute and service-account access for shared channel work.

Factory can move person-started delegated sessions into Slack code channels. Those channels show the repository, branch, and a diff against the base branch; users can request one with `!new`. Factory says it withholds diffs that may contain secrets, are binary, or are too large. Inactive code channels receive a warning after seven days and are archived 24 hours later unless activity resumes.

The documentation does not state a launch date, separate price, supported Slack plan requirements, or measured task-success rates. It also does not establish that every request will open a pull request or enter a code channel.

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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