# Shehzen Sidiq

> Co-founder & CTO of Cosmic Stack (https://cosmicstack.org). Wrote Mercury Relay, the layer that connects local Mercury agents to Mercury Cloud, and contributes to Mercury Agent, an open-source AI agent runtime. https://shehzen.com

This file summarises https://shehzen.com for AI agents. Numbers come from the GitHub and npm APIs (24 Oct 2026).

## Who

- Name: Shehzen Sidiq
- Title: Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, Cosmic Stack (co-founder since Oct 2025, CTO since Feb 2026)
- Joined Cosmic Stack: May 2024, business development
- Education: M.Tech, Information Technology, Central University of Kashmir (2019–2021); thesis on Kashmiri accent classification
- Location: Mumbai, India. Works remotely.
- Email: shehzen@cosmicstack.org
- GitHub: https://github.com/shehzensidiq
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shehzen-sidiq-6854a4265
- Blog: https://shehzen.com/blog/ (RSS: https://shehzen.com/rss.xml)

## Products

- **Mercury Cloud & Mercury Relay** (live): Cloud cockpit for a local Mercury agent: pair once, then chat, approve actions and monitor from anywhere. Shehzen is the sole author of Mercury Relay, the real-time API between local agents and the cloud. Free tier; Pro $19/month. https://cloud.mercuryagent.sh
- **Mercury Agent** (live, MIT, contributor): Open-source AI agent that runs locally, remembers what matters and asks before it acts. 3,456 stars, 354 forks, 12.7K npm installs in 12 months, latest v1.4.0. Shehzen built Telegram pairing and access management, the first Second Brain memory system (SQLite + FTS5), and provider/model setup. https://mercuryagent.sh · https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent

## Traction (Mercury Agent, whole team)

- 3,456 GitHub stars and 354 forks since launch in Apr 2026
- 47 releases; latest v1.4.0
- 12,719 npm installs in the last 12 months (1,876 in the last 30 days)
- 103 commits by Shehzen across Mercury Agent, Mercury Cloud, Mercury Relay and Cosmic Suite

## Earlier work

- Kashmiri Accent Classification (M.Tech thesis, 2021)
- OpenCV tutorial series: age detection, Haar-cascade face detection, playground (2022)
- MNIST random-forest classifier with a Gradio UI (2022)
- EduPay, a college fee-payment app in React (2020)

## Writing

- [How this site is built](https://shehzen.com/blog/how-this-site-is-built/) (24 Oct 2026): A static Astro site, posts written as Markdown, and Cloudflare Pages deploying every push. No database, no CMS, nothing to patch.