Install

Install the Droid CLI:

curl -fsSL https://app.factory.ai/cli | sh

Note

Droid requires a larger context window. It is recommended to use a context window of at least 64k tokens. See Context length for more information.

Usage with Ollama

Quick setup

ollama launch droid

To configure without launching:

ollama launch droid --config

Manual setup

Add a local configuration block to ~/.factory/config.json:

{
  "custom_models": [
    {
      "model_display_name": "qwen3-coder [Ollama]",
      "model": "qwen3-coder",
      "base_url": "http://localhost:11434/v1/",
      "api_key": "not-needed",
      "provider": "generic-chat-completion-api",
      "max_tokens": 32000 
    }
  ]
}

Cloud Models

qwen3-coder:480b-cloud is the recommended model for use with Droid.

Add the cloud configuration block to ~/.factory/config.json:

{
  "custom_models": [
    {
      "model_display_name": "qwen3-coder [Ollama Cloud]",
      "model": "qwen3-coder:480b-cloud",
      "base_url": "http://localhost:11434/v1/",
      "api_key": "not-needed",
      "provider": "generic-chat-completion-api",
      "max_tokens": 128000
    }
  ]
}

Connecting to ollama.com

1. Create an API key from ollama.com and export it as OLLAMA_API_KEY.
2. Add the cloud configuration block to ~/.factory/config.json:

   {
     "custom_models": [
       {
         "model_display_name": "qwen3-coder [Ollama Cloud]",
         "model": "qwen3-coder:480b",
         "base_url": "https://ollama.com/v1/",
         "api_key": "OLLAMA_API_KEY",
         "provider": "generic-chat-completion-api",
         "max_tokens": 128000
       }
     ]
   }

Run droid in a new terminal to load the new settings.