How Optimus works: an agent that uses your computer
Inside Optimus, the Mercury plugin that sees your screen, moves the mouse and types: its processes, how it looks and acts, voice control, and the safety rails.
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Salman Qureshi
Founder, Cosmic Stack. Builds Mercury. Writes about agent runtimes, terminal UIs and shipping open source.
Salman Qureshi
Mercury 1.4: plugins, WhatsApp calls, and an agent at your desk
Mercury 1.4 adds isolated plugins and two official ones: WhatsApp chat with voice calls both ways, and Optimus, which sees your screen and uses your mouse.
Salman Qureshi
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
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
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