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Mercury Agent
by Cosmic StackAgentGet organised
Keeps a personal AI agent running on your computer that you can message from Telegram
About Mercury Agent
Mercury Agent is an open-source assistant that runs in the background on your own computer. You message it from a terminal, Telegram, Discord or Slack, and it works with files, the web and scheduled tasks.
For People who want a personal assistantTelegram and Discord usersDevelopers
Made by Cosmic Stack
Cosmic Stack makes Mercury Agent and publishes it as open source on GitHub under the cosmicstack-labs organisation.
- Stars
- ★ 3.8k
- License
- MIT
- Cost
- Usage-based
- Platforms
- Mac · Win · Linux
- Level
- Intermediate
Overview
Mercury Agent is an open-source assistant that runs as a background service on your own computer. You reach it from a terminal, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal or a local web dashboard, and it can read and write files, run commands, research the web and work through scheduled tasks. It keeps a memory of your preferences on your disk, asks before acting outside the folders you allow and stays within a daily token budget you set. It suits people who want one always-on agent they can message from their phone.
The same agent, memory and permission rules apply whichever chat app you use, and it keeps working after you close the terminal.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- List the files in [folder] and summarise what each one is. Don't change anything.First try · read-only
- What do you remember about my current projects?
- Every weekday at 8:00, send me a short summary of [topic] news on Telegram.sends messages
- Research [topic] and save a one-page report in my Documents folder.writes a file
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
Features
From the creator's documentation.
| Feature | What it does | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Chat channels | Terminal, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal and a local web dashboard, all reaching the same agent | Your chat accounts |
| Memory | Saves facts about your preferences and projects in a local database you can inspect or clear | Your computer |
| Permissions | Per-folder file access, a command blocklist and approval prompts before it acts | Your computer |
| Files and commands | Reads and writes files, runs commands and works with git and GitHub | Read + write |
| Scheduler | Runs tasks on a schedule and sends the results back to the chat that asked | Your computer |
| Models | DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama and others, within a daily token budget you set | Model provider |
Good to know
You want one assistant that remembers your projects and preferences and that you can message from your phone. Mercury runs as a background service, so a scheduled task or a request sent from Telegram keeps going after you close the terminal.
Limits
- It needs a model provider key, a local model or Mercury Cloud. Actions follow the permission mode you choose, and the project asks you to review what it does, especially in Allow All mode.
- Skills installed from its community skill site are contributed by others; read a skill before installing it.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: Mercury Agent), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. Mercury Agent: installation · Mercury Agent README
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