Factory mode
Factory mode is for briefs that take longer than you want to babysit. Hand off a goal; Loom spins up a planner, a critic, and up to twenty worker agents using stock claude CLI sessions; you come back to a finished artifact and a 1-page brief that explains what happened.
Launching a mission
Open /factory, click New mission, and pick a recipe (or pick Generic to write a freeform brief). Loom shows a cost estimate based on past runs of that recipe; you can edit the budget cap before submitting. The DAG panel opens automatically — within ten seconds you should see the orchestrator node spawn its first children.
Reading the DAG
Each node is one agent. Border color tracks status. The number in the top-right is the running cost. Click a node to slide in the agent drawer: trace, tool calls, artifacts, cost rollup, children. Right-click to branch, cancel, or jump into the corresponding chat. Up to 20 nodes render without overlap; bigger jobs use a virtualized canvas with a minimap.
Halt & replay
Need to stop? Click the mission card's halt button. Loom drains running sessions to their next checkpoint, then stops cleanly — no zombie containers. Replay from any checkpoint via POST /missions/{id}/replay?from=ckpt_…. The CLI is also available for power users:
loom missions halt mis_4f3a...
loom missions replay mis_4f3a... --from ckpt_2c9...