<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Telegram Bot on SoloSoft</title><link>https://www.solosoft.dev/tags/telegram-bot/</link><description>Recent content in Telegram Bot on SoloSoft</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://www.solosoft.dev/tags/telegram-bot/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Mercury Agent: An Open-Source Soul-Driven AI Agent with Permission-Hardened Tools</title><link>https://www.solosoft.dev/post/mercury-agent-ai-2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.solosoft.dev/post/mercury-agent-ai-2026/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Most AI agents today are functionally identical: same generic assistant personality, same unfettered access to your system, same &amp;ldquo;one-size-fits-all&amp;rdquo; approach to autonomy. The Mercury Agent, built by &lt;a href="https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent"&gt;cosmicstack-labs&lt;/a&gt;, flips that model on its head.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is an &lt;strong&gt;open-source, soul-driven AI agent&lt;/strong&gt; with permission-hardened tools, token budgets, multi-channel access, and 24/7 operation — all built in pure TypeScript on Node.js 20+ with zero native dependencies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s dig into what makes it genuinely different.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="what-is-mercury-agent"&gt;What Is Mercury Agent?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mercury Agent is an AI agent framework that runs continuously from your terminal or Telegram. It comes with 21+ built-in tools — filesystem operations, shell commands, git integration, web scraping, skills management, and task scheduling — all wrapped in a &lt;strong&gt;permission-hardened security layer&lt;/strong&gt; that prevents the agent from running dangerous operations.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>