Foundry

The forge that forges itself.

Foundry is a self-writing meta-extension for OpenClaw that learns how you work, researches documentation, and writes new capabilities into itself. It observes your workflows, crystallizes patterns into tools, and upgrades itself to match how you operate.

$FDRY — dexscreener · Solana

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                         FOUNDRY                             │
│                                                             │
│   Observe ──► Research ──► Learn ──► Write ──► Deploy      │
│       │          │          │          │          │         │
│       ▼          ▼          ▼          ▼          ▼         │
│   workflows   docs.openclaw  patterns  extensions  gateway  │
│   tool calls  arXiv papers   insights  tools       restart  │
│   outcomes    GitHub repos   workflows hooks       resume   │
│                                        skills              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

OpenClaw vs Foundry

OpenClaw (originally Clawdbot) is the platform — an open-source agent runtime with:

• Gateway, channels, memory, sessions
• Tool execution and skill loading
• Model providers and routing
• The infrastructure everything runs on

Foundry is a plugin that runs on OpenClaw:

• Observes how you work → learns your patterns
• Researches docs → writes new extensions/skills/hooks
• Has its own learning engine (not part of OpenClaw core)
• Can modify itself via foundry_extend_self
• Publishes to Foundry Marketplace via x402

OpenClaw (platform)
├── Gateway
├── Channels (Discord, Slack, Telegram...)
├── Skills & Tools
└── Plugins
    └── Foundry (this repo)
        ├── observes → your workflows
        ├── researches → docs, papers, repos
        ├── writes → extensions, skills, hooks
        ├── learns → from outcomes
        ├── crystallizes → patterns into tools
        └── publishes → to marketplace

Key distinction: OpenClaw doesn’t have built-in self-learning. Foundry adds that capability on top. Foundry is an “agent that builds agents” — it uses OpenClaw’s infrastructure to create new OpenClaw capabilities, and upgrades itself to match how you work.

Why Self-Writing Matters

The key insight isn’t “LLM writes code for you” — it’s “the system upgrades itself.”

Knowledge vs Behavior