Project · Mercury Hermes Agent fork v0.2.0 · MIT

One brain. Three doors.
Your hardware.

Mercury is a personal AI agent that lives on a computer you own. Today it's reachable through three working doors — your terminal, a Discord bot (@abmsnowy), and a phone-friendly web dashboard accessible over Tailscale. Same agent, same memory, every door. Nothing leaves the building.

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The Three-Door Office — in one paragraph

Picture a small office with one occupant: an assistant who already knows you. They've read your notes, they remember last week's conversation, they know which tools sit on your desk and which documents live in your filing cabinet. Mercury's office is in your building — by default the same RTX 5090 desktop that runs Cortex. The desk has three working doors today: terminal (the mercury CLI), Discord (the @abmsnowy bot), and web (a phone-friendly dashboard exposed over Tailscale at big-apple.scylla-betta.ts.net:8443). Walk through any door, and you're talking to the same person with the same memory. The brain is Gemma 4 E4B running locally on Ollama at ~194 tokens per second; the body is Hermes Agent, an open-source framework from Nous Research. iMessage, email, and SMS surfaces are roadmap, not shipped — call them out as they actually are.

"Privacy as an architectural property, not a promise."

Where to go next

Source: github.com/AlexiosBluffMara/mercury — MIT, fork of NousResearch/hermes-agent.
Casual / Business / Founder framings: /explain — three registers, same products.
Why local: An RTX 5090 runs about $2,500–3,000 street price; equivalent cloud capacity is roughly $0.70/hour, or ~$504/month at 24/7. Break-even in five months even before per-token fees.
No public hosted version. Mercury is local-first by design. To chat with it, clone, install, and bring your own hardware.

Research conducted in association with Illinois State University, research collaboration · Bloomington–Normal, IL · ABM in Chicago, IL.

    Mercury v0.2.0 · MIT
  