January 30, 2026
Bots, buttons, and token beef
Show HN: Foundry – Turns your repeated workflows into one-click commands
Self-writing work bot meets token drama as comments yell 'slopception'
TLDR: Foundry promises to watch your routine and turn repeat tasks into one-click commands, saying it can improve itself as you work. Comments pounced on a Solana token mention—branding it “slopception”—splitting readers between hype-wary skeptics and those excited by effortless automation’s potential to save time.
Meet Foundry, the Show HN drop claiming to be a self-writing work bot: it watches your routines and turns them into one-click commands. It runs on OpenClaw (the open-source platform), while Foundry is the plugin that learns what you do and writes small tools to automate it. Fans called it an “agent that builds agents,” dreaming of never typing “deploy to staging” again.
But the comments lit up over a different twist: a $FDRY mention and a Dexscreener link hinting at a Solana token. One early reply just yelled “slopception”, accusing the project of tossing a crypto token into the README for hype. That set the tone: skeptics saw “cool idea, weird token vibes,” while optimists shrugged, saying the automation is the real story.
The pitch is simple: Foundry sees you repeat a task five times with success, then crystallizes it into a single command. No more juggling eight steps—just one button. The bold claim: the bot not only helps you, it upgrades itself to help you more next time.
So the split is clear: is this the future—software that learns your moves—or just another slick demo with token glitter? The community’s meme of the day said it all: “slopception.”
Key Points
- •Foundry is a self-writing plugin for OpenClaw that observes user workflows and generates new tools, skills, and hooks to automate repeated tasks.
- •OpenClaw provides the agent runtime infrastructure; Foundry adds a learning engine that is not part of OpenClaw’s core.
- •When a workflow pattern reaches ≥5 uses with ≥70% success, Foundry crystallizes it into a single dedicated tool, reducing multi-step processes to one command.
- •Foundry can modify itself (foundry_extend_self) and publish capabilities to a marketplace via x402, enabling iterative self-upgrades.
- •Feature set includes generating OpenClaw extensions, API skills (YAML frontmatter), browser automation via CDP, and hooks using HOOK.md + handler.ts.