# Factory Droid: per-skill disable controls and settings resolution

> Adds the ability to disable individual skills and see how skill settings resolve across scopes, alongside fixes for agent tool-call looping, plugin loading, and hook execution. Worth knowing for anyone running many skills.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Tool** | Factory Droid |
| **Version** | v0.173.0 |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2026-07-15 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-21 |
| **Significance** | 3/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | feature, fix |

## What changed


- **Skill controls**: disable individual skills; view how skill settings resolve across scopes
- **Repeated tool calls**: agent stops looping on repeated identical tool calls
- **Plugin loading**: enabled plugins load correctly across all install scopes
- **Hook execution**: hooks run exactly once per event
- **Settings writes**: concurrent settings updates no longer overwritten by stale cached writes
- **Mission Control** (app): chat repaints correctly on close
- **Sidebar update button** (app): alignment fixed


## Sources

- [page_diff](https://docs.factory.ai/changelog/release-notes#v0.173.0) — retrieved 2026-08-21


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