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.
Salman QureshiMercury Blog · Topic
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How Mercury's features work and why they work that way. 4 posts.
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
Asks before it acts: how Mercury's permission model works
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