Mercury Blog
Always-on agents shipped everywhere this autumn. How Mercury Bots work, what we measured, how they compare with Grok Bot, OpenAI dots, Meta Muse, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, and the commits behind it.
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For six releases, a brand-new Mercury install asked for your name, showed one menu, and exited without an error. A walkthrough of a one-tick race between two readers of the same terminal, and the test that now keeps it from coming back.
Mercury Engineering
Typing felt sluggish on every machine, and the terminal renderer took the blame. The real cause was a second full copy of the agent, started quietly by the launcher. How we found it, and why the fix was an architecture change rather than a performance tweak.
Salman Qureshi
One background runtime that every terminal attaches to, bots that deliver real files and stay online, and a fleet you can run from Telegram. What changed in the 1.3 line and why.
Salman Qureshi
An agent with a shell, a file system and network access is only useful if you can trust what it will do with them. A tour of the layers between the model and your machine: scopes, approvals, a blocklist nothing can override, an SSRF guard, and tiers for unattended bots.
Mercury Engineering