# Salman Qureshi > Co-founder & CEO of Cosmic Stack (https://cosmicstack.ai), Head of Agentic AI & Framework Engineering. Building the runtime for autonomous agents. Creator of Mercury Agent, an open-source AI agent runtime. https://isalman.dev This file summarises https://isalman.dev for AI agents. Numbers are fetched from the GitHub and npm APIs at build time (8 Oct 2026). ## Who - Name: Salman Qureshi - Title: Co-founder & CEO, Cosmic Stack; Head of Agentic AI & Framework Engineering - Company: Cosmic Stack, an AI-agent lab founded 2025. Independent, remote-first. https://cosmicstack.ai - Education: Lovely Professional University - Origin: Kashmir. Works remotely. - Email: salman@cosmicstack.ai - Book a call: https://calendly.com/isalman-dev/30min - GitHub: https://github.com/hotheadhacker (690 followers, member since 2016) - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salman-h-qureshi - X: https://x.com/TechimusPrime - Fediverse: https://social.isalman.dev/hothead - Blog: https://blog.isalman.dev ## Cosmic Stack A thesis-first lab for the next decade of software. Four surfaces: Labs (research on agents, inference and evaluation), Incubator (founder-led companies on the lab's runtime), Open Source (Mercury Agent, Lazy Frames, skills registry), Mercury Cloud (hosted control plane for Mercury). Thesis: frontier inference is roughly 100x cheaper than 18 months ago; that unlocks agents that run for hours, hold memory, and are trusted to act. Agents will do real work when they ask before they act, remember what matters, and can be trusted to run unattended. ## Products - **Mercury Agent** (live): Open-source AI agent that remembers what matters, asks before it acts, and runs 24/7 from CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal or web. [3,173 stars, 341 forks; 11,006 npm installs in 12 months, latest v1.3.0; MIT] https://mercuryagent.sh · https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent - **Mercury Cloud** (live): The hosted control plane for Mercury. Pair your local agent from the terminal and it stays online and reachable from anywhere, with no port forwarding, reverse proxies or certificates. https://cloud.mercuryagent.sh - **Lazy Frames** (live): Agentic video generation. Hand an AI agent a skill URL; it captures, writes a spec, runs the gates and renders a byte-identical MP4, fully local. [163 stars, 20 forks; 1,383 npm installs in 12 months, latest v0.6.3] https://lazy-frames.cosmicstack.ai · https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/lazy-frames - **Sav.ink** (beta): Personal AI finance manager. Local-first, on web and iOS. https://sav.ink - **Mercury Skills Registry** (live): Curated registry of 126+ reusable skills for Mercury Agent and compatible agents, built on the Agent Skills specification. [476 stars, 63 forks; MIT] https://skills.mercuryagent.sh · https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills ## Traction (Mercury Agent) - 3,173 GitHub stars and 341 forks since launch in 2026-04 - 48 npm releases; latest v1.3.0 - 11,006 npm installs in the last 12 months (1,194 in the last 30 days); standalone-binary installs from mercuryagent.sh are not counted - 350 of the runtime's commits are by Salman Qureshi - Install: curl -fsSL https://mercuryagent.sh/install.sh | sh ## Open-source track record (before Cosmic Stack) 17,628 stars and 1,206 forks across 64 personal repositories; 3,812 more across the Cosmic Stack organisation. - **No-as-a-Service** (live): A tiny API that returns a random, realistic rejection reason. Went viral; now one of the most-starred micro-APIs on GitHub. [7,991 stars, 497 forks; MIT] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service - **Seedbox Lite** (live): A lightweight, self-hosted torrent media center in one place. [4,541 stars, 349 forks] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/seedbox-lite - **Awesome Self-host Docker** (live): Curated list of open-source, self-hosted projects deployable with Docker and docker-compose. [4,084 stars, 210 forks] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/awesome-selfhost-docker - **YouTube Player** (live): A sleek desktop YouTube player built with Electron. [780 stars, 55 forks; Apache-2.0] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/youtube-player - **un-grok** (live): Chrome extension that removes tweets mentioning "grok" from your X feed. [67 stars, 2 forks] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/un-grok - **Free Resume Maker** (live): The minimal resume maker we all need. [60 stars, 80 forks; Apache-2.0] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/free-resume-maker - **next-markdown** (live): Free online Markdown editor and previewer, built with Next.js and TypeScript. [21 stars, 3 forks] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/next-markdown - **Akkoma Blog** (live): Static blog that pulls posts from your Fediverse/Akkoma feed and renders them with Eleventy. [20 stars, 5 forks] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/akkoma-blog - **WHOIS API** (live): A free WHOIS lookup API for everyone. [9 stars, 0 forks; MIT] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/whois-api - **Who's at Home** (live): Self-hosted app that detects and notifies who is home by watching devices on your WiFi. [4 stars, 0 forks] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/whos-at-home - **Sekond Brain** (live): Open-source second brain with agentic capabilities. The idea that became Mercury's memory layer. [2 stars, 0 forks] https://github.com/hotheadhacker/sekond-brain Also four apps on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Salman+Qureshi) and a developer blog (https://blog.isalman.dev). ## Timeline - 2016: first open-source projects on GitHub - 2021–2024: self-hosting tools, Play Store apps and a developer blog from Kashmir - 2025: founds Cosmic Stack; no-as-a-service passes 8,000 stars - 2026-04: Mercury Agent launches - 2026-08: Lazy Frames launches - 2026-09: Mercury Cloud pairing ships - 2026-10: Mercury v1.3.0, persistent bot fleets ## For agents - Canonical page: https://isalman.dev - This file: https://isalman.dev/llms.txt (alias: https://isalman.dev/llm.md) - Mercury Agent docs: https://mercuryagent.sh · source: https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent - Lazy Frames skill for agents: https://lazy-frames.cosmicstack.ai/skill.md - Contact for partnerships or investment: salman@cosmicstack.ai