aaif-goose

goose

General-purpose local AI agent in Rust — native desktop app, full CLI and embeddable API — over 15+ providers and 70+ MCP extensions. Block's goose, now an Agentic AI Foundation project.

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Curator's take

The default answer when someone wants a real agent on their own machine and does not want to assemble one. Rust, three surfaces (desktop app, CLI, API), 15+ providers including Ollama and your existing Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini subscriptions over ACP, 70+ MCP extensions, and custom distributions if you want to ship your own branded build. Now governed under the Linux Foundation's AAIF rather than one vendor, which matters if you are betting a product on it. It is deliberately general — code, research, writing, data — so it has no opinion about your SDLC: no verification gates, no worktree isolation, no PR pipeline. If you want an agent that must prove its work, or a spec-to-PR factory, layer that on or pick a purpose-built harness. Note the repo moved from block/goose; old links and forks still point at the old org.

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README.md

goose

your native open source AI agent — desktop app, CLI, and API — for code, workflows, and everything in between

goose is a general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine. Not just for code — use it for research, writing, automation, data analysis, or anything you need to get done.

A native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows. A full CLI for terminal workflows. An API to embed it anywhere. Built in Rust for performance and portability.

goose works with 15+ providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, OpenRouter, Azure, Bedrock, and more. Use API keys or your existing Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini subscriptions via ACP. Connect to 70+ extensions via the Model Context Protocol open standard.

goose is part of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) at the Linux Foundation.

Get started

Download the desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Or install the CLI:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/releases/download/stable/download_cli.sh | bash

Quick links

Quickstart
Installation
Tutorials
Documentation
Governance
Custom Distributions — build your own goose distro with preconfigured providers, extensions, and branding

Need help?

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Why did the developer choose goose as their AI agent?

Because it always helps them "migrate" their code to production! 🚀

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CLIProxyAPI

Turns your coding-CLI subscriptions (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Kimi, Grok) into a local OpenAI/Gemini/Claude-compatible API — multi-account rotation in one Go proxy.

Why it fitsGoose can drive your Claude Code / Codex subscriptions over ACP, but everything else it reaches needs an API key. CLIProxyAPI turns those same CLI subscriptions into an OpenAI/Gemini/Claude-compatible endpoint with multi-account rotation — a normal provider from goose's side.

numbat

Perplexity's endpoint sensor for AI agents: hooks, OTLP logs and on-disk session artifacts normalized into one CEL-matched event model, with opt-in pre-action blocking and offline forensics.

Why it fitsGoose runs real tools on your machine across desktop, CLI and API. Numbat is the endpoint sensor for that: hooks, OTLP logs and on-disk session artifacts normalized into one CEL-matched event model, with opt-in blocking before an action lands.

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TrueFoundry's open agent harness: the runtime loop — model calls, MCP tools, SKILL.md packs, sandboxing, approvals, compaction — behind a chat UI, HTTP API, TypeScript SDK and embeddable UI.

Why it fitsBoth are complete harnesses — model loop, MCP tools, SKILL.md packs, sandboxing, approvals, compaction. Trueforge is server-first with an HTTP API, TS SDK and embeddable UI for putting an agent inside your product; goose is a native app and CLI for putting an agent on your machine.

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DeepSeek's open agent harness (`dsh`): everything is a plugin, on the Cordis composability runtime, with a local web UI one npx away. Developer preview, MIT, moving fast.

Why it fitsDeepSeek's plugin-everything agent harness covers the same ground from the model-vendor side. Goose is the packaged, foundation-governed option with a desktop app and a large extension ecosystem; the DeepSeek harness is closer to reference code you extend.

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Hugging Face's Python port of Pi's minimalist coding agent: a real terminal agent with TUI, sessions and skills — built to be READ, with a clean brain/environment/frontend separation.

Why it fitsOpposite ends of the same axis. Tau is a minimalist Python agent built to be read, with a clean brain/environment/frontend split; goose is a batteries-included Rust product you install and use. Read tau to learn, run goose to work.