# Factory

> Factory is a Software Factory built by the StrongDM AI team — a platform where AI agents generate production code from specifications, without human code review. Field notes on building with agents.

Factory documents the principles, techniques, and tools behind non-interactive agentic software development. Founded July 14, 2025, the project explores what happens when you commit to zero hand-written code: every artifact synthesized by models, with human effort reserved for intent specification and systems-level correction.

The site is built with a Go backend and Next.js frontend, deployed to Kubernetes.

## Core Content

- [Home](https://factory.strongdm.ai/): The founding story — how LLMs crossed the correctness equilibrium point and became viable substrates for autonomous software construction ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/index.md))
- [Principles](https://factory.strongdm.ai/principles): Core philosophy — Seed, Validation, Feedback Loop ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/principles.md))
- [Weather Report](https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report): What models we're running today, how they're configured, and what role each plays ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report.md))

## Techniques

- [Techniques](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques): Practical patterns for agentic development ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques.md))
- [Digital Twin Universe](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/dtu): In-memory behavioral clones of external services (Okta, Jira, Google Docs, Slack, Drive, Sheets) for validation without side effects ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/dtu.md))
- [Gene Transfusion](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/gene-transfusion): Controlled transfer of structure and patterns across codebases and generations ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/gene-transfusion.md))
- [The Filesystem as Context](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/filesystem): Using the filesystem as mutable, inspectable world-state for LLM context management ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/filesystem.md))
- [Shift Work](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/shift-work): Interactive vs non-interactive development patterns for extending agentic execution windows ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/shift-work.md))
- [Pyramid Summaries](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/pyramid-summaries): Multi-resolution context summarization ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/pyramid-summaries.md))
- [Semport](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/semport): Semantic import technique ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques/semport.md))

## Products

- [Products](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products): Tools and components built by the AI team ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products.md))
- [CXDB](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/cxdb): Persistent context store for intermediate state, lineage, and feedback ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/cxdb.md))
- [Attractor](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/attractor): Deterministic execution harness for non-interactive agent runs ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/attractor.md))
- [StrongDM ID](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/strongdm-id): Identity platform with SSO, multi-IDP support, and path-scoped sharing ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/strongdm-id.md))
- [StrongDM ID Sharing](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/strongdm-id/sharing): Path-scoped content sharing for external collaborators ([md](https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/strongdm-id/sharing.md))

## Attractor

The full implementable specification for Attractor — our non-interactive coding agent — is maintained at [github.com/strongdm/attractor](https://github.com/strongdm/attractor). See the root `llms.txt` in that repository for the complete spec.

## Optional

- [RSS Feed](https://factory.strongdm.ai/weather-report/feed.xml): Weather Report updates in RSS format
- [Share](https://factory.strongdm.ai/share): Create path-scoped share links for external collaborators