{"slug": "mercury-agent", "title": "Mercury Agent", "summary": "Mercury Agent, a soul-driven AI agent with second brain memory, a full skill system, and multi-agent orchestration, has been released. It runs 24/7 across terminal, browser, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and Signal, featuring 40+ permission-hardened tools and standalone binaries for all major operating systems. The agent offers real-time progress tracking, intelligent loop detection, and memory modeled after conscious and subconscious processes, with support for multiple LLM providers.", "body_md": "A **soul-driven** agent with Second Brain memory, a full Skill System, Token Saver Mode, multi-agent orchestration, 40+ permission-hardened tools, and standalone binaries on every major OS. Runs 24/7 from your terminal, browser, Telegram, Discord, Slack, or Signal.\n\n`npm i -g @cosmicstack/mercury-agent && mercury`\n\n`curl -fsSL https://mercuryagent.sh/install.sh | sh`\n\nThree principles that define Mercury.\n\nMercury doesn't just execute. It orchestrates.\n\n40+ built-in tools. Zero configuration.\n\nFull control. Nothing happens without your say.\n\nA real multi-step coding task with tool calls, progress tracking, and completion stats.\n\nMercury shows you exactly what's happening, when it's happening.\n\nYou send a task. Mercury begins working.\n\nA single message appears showing live progress. On Telegram, it pins to the top.\n\nEach tool call updates the card in place — read, edit, run, create. Last 5 steps visible.\n\nIf Mercury detects a loop, it analyzes diversity and success rate. Productive work continues; stuck patterns stop.\n\nStatus card deleted. AI response + completion banner with token stats and budget usage.\n\nSame capabilities. Different interfaces. All real-time.\n\nInstall vetted, single-purpose capabilities from [skills.mercuryagent.sh](https://skills.mercuryagent.sh) — 126+ skills across 23 categories. Review the source, then install with one command.\n\n`mercury skills search contract`\n\n`mercury skills view finance-legal/contract-review`\n\n`mercury skills install finance-legal/contract-review`\n\n`localhost:6174`\n\n.`category/slug`\n\ninto the registry installer.`SKILL.md`\n\nfiles.`/skills`\n\n— list installed skills`/skills search <query>`\n\n— search the registry`/skills view <id>`\n\n— show details + registry URL`/skills install <id>`\n\n— admin onlyMercury spawns parallel agents. You keep chatting.\n\nMultiple tasks run simultaneously in isolated context windows.\n\nReader-writer locks prevent concurrent write conflicts between agents.\n\nMax concurrent agents auto-detected from CPU and RAM.\n\nKeep chatting while agents work. Get notified when they finish.\n\nIntelligent loop detection that knows the difference between working hard and going in circles.\n\nHigh parameter diversity (> 60%) and success rate (> 70%). Mercury continues without interruption.\n\nModerate repetition detected. In Allow All: AI self-check evaluates progress. In Ask Me: prompts you.\n\nLow diversity and high failure rate. Mercury stops the current execution path automatically.\n\nMercury remembers — modeled after the conscious and subconscious mind.\n\nActive working memory — facts Mercury is currently reasoning about and can immediately surface in conversation.\n\nLong-term recall — memories stored persistently and retrieved automatically when contextually relevant.\n\nWhen Mercury detects a contradiction, the higher-confidence memory wins. No stale data.\n\nHourly synthesis of profile summaries and reflections from detected patterns across memory layers.\n\nTracks people you mention with alias resolution, relationship mapping, and graph visualization.\n\nAll data stays on your machine in SQLite. /memory gives you overview, search, pause, and clear.\n\nConfigure one or stack them all. Mercury falls back automatically and tracks which provider last succeeded.\n\nUse your ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription. OAuth login, no API key.\n\nYour Copilot subscription — access OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models.\n\nCost-effective with strong reasoning. Default provider.\n\nGPT-4o-mini, GPT-4o, o3. Industry standard.\n\nClaude Sonnet, Haiku, Opus. Nuanced reasoning.\n\nxAI's models via OpenAI-compatible endpoint.\n\nRemote Ollama models via API. No local setup.\n\nOn your machine. Zero cost, fully private.\n\nAPI key or OAuth — your choice. ChatGPT Web and GitHub Copilot authenticate through your browser. Switch models mid-session with `/models use`\n\n.\n\nWe built Mercury because nothing else did all of this.\n\n| Feature | Mercury | Open Interpreter | Claude Code |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Multi-Agent Orchestration | Parallel workers + file locks | — | — |\n| Loop Detection (Autopilot) | Diversity + success analysis | — | — |\n| Real-Time Progress | Single edited status card + pin | — | — |\n| Permission Modes | Ask Me / Allow All + safe whitelist | Confirmation prompts | Permission prompts |\n| Telegram Integration | Inline keyboards, pinned progress, org access | — | — |\n| Token Budget | Daily budget + override + color-coded stats | — | — |\n| Spotify Integration | Native playback + DJ mode + 14 tools | — | — |\n| Skill System | Install, invoke, schedule with elevation | — | — |\n| Soul / Persona System | 4 markdown files | Custom instructions | CLAUDE.md |\n| GitHub Companion | PRs, issues, co-authored commits | — | — |\n| Provider Fallback | Auto with last-successful tracking | Manual config | Anthropic only |\n| Second Brain | Auto-extract, 10 types, conflict resolution | — | — |\n| Workspace IDE | File explorer, git panel, keyboard shortcuts | — | — |\n| 24/7 Headless | Daemon + system service + cron scheduling | — | — |\n| Open Source | MIT | LGPL-2.1 | Source-available |\n\n`npm i -g @cosmicstack/mercury-agent`\n\n`mercury`\n\nOnboarding wizard: choose providers, validate keys, pair Telegram.\n\n`mercury up`\n\nStarts as a daemon. Auto-restarts on crash. Runs 24/7.\n\n`npm i -g @cosmicstack/mercury-agent && mercury`\n\n60 seconds to your own AI agent.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mercury-agent", "canonical_source": "https://mercuryagent.sh/", "published_at": "2026-06-26 17:22:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 17:34:55.911822+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "large-language-models", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Mercury Agent", "Cosmic Stack", "Open Interpreter", "Claude Code", "ChatGPT", "GitHub Copilot", "OpenAI", "Anthropic"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mercury-agent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mercury-agent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mercury-agent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mercury-agent.jsonld"}}