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FounderReply connects Bluesky with your handle and an app password rather than an OAuth redirect, then drafts posts and replies for your approval. The AT Protocol API is free and its keyword search is public, so finding conversations costs nothing. Direct messages are not supported: Bluesky’s chat service sits off-protocol.
On Bluesky
Free API, app-password connect, public keyword search. No DMs.
Bluesky exposes keyword search publicly, so discovery works before you connect anything and costs nothing once you have.
Public search runs against the AppView host rather than your session, so a rate limit on your account never takes discovery down with it.
A Bluesky reply has to point at a specific version of the post it answers, so the agent fetches that reference before it drafts anything.
The parent’s strong reference is resolved from the feed API at draft time; an edited or deleted parent fails the reply rather than posting it into the wrong thread.
You generate a dedicated app password in Bluesky’s settings and paste it in. Revoking it there is instant, and it never touches your main password.
The credential is a per-app password minted in Settings, not your account password, and the session it creates is refreshed rather than re-authorised.
The room
Bluesky is where a meaningful slice of the technical and startup audience moved, and its feeds are still small enough that a good reply is seen rather than buried. The trade is reach for signal: fewer people, far less noise per post, and a much higher chance that the person you answered actually reads it.
Bluesky’s developer guidelines restrict automated and bulk replies, and the culture is less tolerant of marketing patterns than the size of the network suggests. Custom feeds mean a bad pattern is visible to everyone following that feed, not just to your followers.
The ceiling
Two layers decide whether an action happens by itself: your autonomy dial, and a hard ceiling we impose per platform. The safer of the two always wins, so the dial can make things stricter and never looser. This table is generated from that ceiling.
| Action | Ships as | Most permissive allowed |
|---|---|---|
| Publish your own postOriginal content from your connected account | Waits for your approval | May run automatically |
| Reply on your own postsAnswering comments left on your content | Waits for your approval | May run automatically |
| Direct messagePrivate messages to a person | No API on Bluesky | No API on Bluesky |
| Comment on someone else’s postThe highest-risk action on every platform | Not permitted | Waits for your approval |
Bluesky’s developer guidelines prohibit automated and bulk replies to other people. Publishing your own posts and replying on your own threads may run unattended; commenting on strangers is held for a human. Direct messages are not implemented at all.
There is no OAuth redirect and no developer app to register. You post a handle and an app password to the connect endpoint, and it mints a session.
Nothing here is a marketing paraphrase — it is the string the connect flow sends, copied from app/api/v1/connect/bluesky.
POST /api/v1/connect/bluesky
{
"workspace_id": "ws_…",
"identifier": "you.bsky.social",
"app_password": "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"
}FAQ
No. Bluesky connects with your handle plus an app password generated in Settings, so there is nothing to register and nothing to wait for. You can revoke that app password from the same screen at any time, which cuts the agent off immediately.
No. Bluesky’s chat is a centralised service that sits beside the AT Protocol rather than inside it, and the connector does not implement it. The DM capability is switched off for Bluesky everywhere in the product, including in the cap table on this page.
No. The AT Protocol API is free with no paid tier and no API keys, which is why Bluesky is available on every plan including Free. Usage is limited by a points budget rather than a bill, and writes cost more points than reads.
Publishing your own posts and replying on your own threads can be dialled up to automatic. Commenting on other people’s posts cannot — that ceiling is human approval, and it exists because Bluesky’s guidelines restrict exactly that behaviour.
The free plan connects one account and drafts replies for you to approve. Nothing is published until you release it.