# How Chainguard uses Factory

**80** packages built

As published on [factory.com](https://factory.com/case-studies/chainguard), January 2026. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-17.

- Company: [Chainguard](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/chainguard.md)
- Tool: [Factory](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/factory.md)
- Industry: [Cybersecurity](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/cybersecurity.md)
- Teams: Engineering

## What the story says

A staff engineer at Chainguard uses Factory's Droid agent for long-running engineering sessions that span brainstorming, design documents, review and production shipping across several repositories. The agent retains context through compaction and is taught repeatable package-building tasks once or twice before working on them independently.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Factory and Chainguard, not ours.

> Josh Wolf, Staff Engineer at Chainguard, tried every memory solution that the AI tooling ecosystem could offer including memory MCPs, memory tools, custom SDKs.

> Having something that is able to work beyond the current limits of other tools. It's invaluable.
>
> Josh Wolf, Staff Engineer

Source: [factory.com](https://factory.com/case-studies/chainguard), captured 2026-10-17.

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-17.

- Checked: the figure 80 is on the page; its label is our wording.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Chainguard.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Chainguard uses Factory. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-17.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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