Mercury + Telegram: Code From Your Phone
Turn Telegram into a full development environment with Mercury. Edit code, run tests, deploy, and manage servers - all from your phone.
What if you could fix a production bug from a beach? With Mercury connected to Telegram, your phone becomes a full development environment. No laptop needed - just type what you want done in natural language.
HOW IT WORKS: Mercury runs on a server and connects to Telegram via Bot API. When you send a message, it reasons about what you need and executes - file access, terminal commands, git operations, browsing. Say "fix the auth bug in login.py" and it reads the file, makes the edit, runs tests, and commits.
REAL EXAMPLES: "Check CI for PR 47 and fix failing tests." "Add error handling to the payment endpoint." "Deploy staging to production and monitor for 5 minutes." "Search codebase for hardcoded API keys and replace with env variables."
SETUP: Create a Telegram bot via @BotFather, configure Mercury with the token, point it at your dev environment. Grant file system, git, and deployment tool access. About 15 minutes total.
SECURITY: Use a dedicated user account, SSH keys (not passwords), deploy keys for git. Set up approval gates for production deployments - Mercury prepares the deploy and waits for your "yes."
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