Mastra Factory

Agent-run software delivery that takes an issue from triage to reviewed pull request

Editorially reviewedChecked Sep 2026How we review

agent-frameworks#agentic sdlc#coding agents#pull requests#open source

Free plan Self-hosted Teams

Toolglade’s take

Mastra Factory is one of the more credible entries in the autonomous engineering category because it is built on Mastra, an agent framework that already had traction, rather than starting from zero. The approval gates and PR-based output are the right design: you get agent throughput without handing over merge rights. Watch the cost model, which is usage based on observability events and CPU hours rather than seats, so heavy use can move well past the headline price. The Apache 2.0 self-hosted path is a genuine option for teams that cannot send repository context to a vendor.

About Mastra Factory

Mastra Factory is an agent-powered software delivery environment that moves GitHub and Linear issues through triage, planning, implementation, and pull request review, with an Apache 2.0 self-hosted option.

Mastra Factory extends the Mastra agent framework into a full delivery system. Instead of a single chat session, it gives agents persistent repository workspaces and a board that moves work through Intake, Triage, In Progress, and Review columns, so a GitHub or Linear issue can be picked up, planned, implemented, and opened as a pull request without a human driving each step. Humans stay in the loop at defined gates. Plans can be approved before implementation begins, and every change still lands as a pull request that a person reviews, which makes it a workflow change rather than a leap of faith. Teams start it with a single npm create factory command and can point it at their own infrastructure if they do not want the hosted version. Factory launched at the top of Product Hunt in September 2026 and sits in a fast-moving part of the market alongside other autonomous engineering tools. Its differentiator is that it is built on an established open-source agent framework, so the orchestration, memory, and observability layers are not new code.

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TL;DR

Mastra Factory is an agent-run software delivery environment built on the open-source Mastra framework, delivering work as reviewable pull requests.

Company overview

Mastra builds an open-source TypeScript agent framework and the Mastra Cloud platform. Factory is its software delivery product, launched in September 2026, where agents work inside persistent repository workspaces.

The company positions Factory as a configurable SDLC rather than a chat tool, with human approval gates and pull requests as the unit of output.

Product features

Factory provides issue intake from GitHub and Linear, a board covering triage, planning, implementation, and review, persistent repository workspaces, and agent orchestration with approval gates.

The core is Apache 2.0 licensed and self-hostable. Hosted plans are billed on observability events and CPU hours, with Teams adding SSO and SOC 2 documentation and Enterprise adding RBAC, audit logs, and SLAs.

Target market

Engineering teams with a steady backlog of well-specified issues, particularly those already using Mastra or wanting a self-hosted agent delivery pipeline.