Configuration

All runtime data lives in ~/.mercury/ — not in your project directory.

Path	Purpose
~/.mercury/mercury.yaml	Main config (providers, channels, budget)
~/.mercury/soul/*.md	Agent personality (soul, persona, taste, heartbeat)
~/.mercury/permissions.yaml	Capabilities and approval rules
~/.mercury/skills/	Installed skills
~/.mercury/schedules.yaml	Scheduled tasks
~/.mercury/token-usage.json	Daily token usage tracking
~/.mercury/memory/	Short-term, long-term, episodic memory
~/.mercury/daemon.pid	Background process PID
~/.mercury/daemon.log	Daemon mode logs