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Salman Qureshi

Founder, Cosmic Stack. Builds Mercury. Writes about agent runtimes, terminal UIs and shipping open source.

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ProductOct 16, 202618 min read

Mercury Bots: an agent fleet that runs on your machine

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.

Salman Qureshi

EngineeringOct 14, 20265 min read

We were running Mercury twice and didn't know it

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

NewsOct 12, 20265 min read

Mercury 1.3: an agent you can actually leave running

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