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IntroductionWhat is Foundry?

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The open-source edition runs everything locally. Production-Grade adds what a team needs around it.

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Foundry keeps AI coding agents working through long, multi-day software jobs. It runs your tasks one at a time, checks every result with local tests, and records what happened, so the work survives crashes and restarts.The ProblemWhen you chain AI agents together on long multi-day coding projects, they fail due to:

Context degradation: After multiple tasks, agent drift occurs. They forget earlier context.

Manual recovery burden: If execution halts or crashes, resuming requires human intervention.

Cost spiral: Without validation, agents make redundant calls and burn tokens.

No audit trail: You can't review what happened or why it failed.

The SolutionFoundry acts as a deterministic supervisor for agentic chains. It orchestrates tasks, validates outputs relentlessly using local non-AI checks, maintains context across repetitions with a sliding window, and keeps costs bounded.Why Foundry is Different

Headless Worker Abstraction (BYOK): Wraps standard CLIs & APIs (Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, Ollama) and drives them as autonomous worker nodes. Leverage your providers' context engines: Foundry manages the session.

Strict Determinism: Foundry runs the tasks you define and does not plan for itself. Removing planning from the worker agent stops scope creep.

Local-First Hybrid Validation: Free, local deterministic checks (AST, regex, file capacity) run before ever asking an LLM. The LLM is a "Judge of Last Resort."

Crash-Proof Infrastructure: State persisted to DragonflyDB after every atomic step. Kill the process, upgrade, restart: resume exactly where it left off.

GotchasThe open-source edition is a complete local setup, with some limits to know before you start:

It does not plan. Foundry runs the tasks you give it. Write them yourself or have your own AI tool draft them first.

It runs on one machine. State lives locally, so there is no cloud backup or sync. If the machine is lost, so is the history.

You drive it from the dashboard or the CLI. There is no mobile app, chat control or direct hook for your own AI tool to pull work.

You see results as files and test output. There are no hosted previews of the finished work.

Support is community-based. There are no response-time commitments.

Checks are only as good as your tests. You pay your own providers, and it needs Docker for state.

The Production-Grade edition covers these.Status

Public Beta: Core control loop and state persistence are stable.

License: MIT for Open-Source Variant Core · Commercial White-Label for Production-Grade Edition

Model: Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK). You supply your own provider subscriptions.