Goose On-Device Agent

✨ Features

• Stable agent event message identity #10716
• Tab completion and switch provider for model command #10585
• Support latest Gemini models #10630
• Configurable GOOSE_DOCS_ROOT for air-gapped docs access #10294
• Structured summary output with template rendering for compaction #10471
• Allow disabling built-in skills #10600
• Gate tool-call label enrichment on ACP client capability #10644

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Restore dynamic model discovery and current Grok support #10756
• Update DeepSeek model names to v4 API #10729
• Forward Claude Code model picker selection to the adapter #10675
• Forward Pi model selection to the adapter #10707
• Preserve enabled flag when migrating platform extensions #10690
• Pass session working_dir to on_call_tool #10689
• Preserve adversary tool arguments #10529
• Keep XML snippets inside JSON as data for local inference #10606
• Sync generated chat title in header #10578
• Prompt for tool approval in telegram gateway sessions #10613
• Keep CLI provider prompts out of process arguments #10547
• Ignore stale inventory for static model lists #10591
• Use shell working directory on initial desktop launch #10655
• Enable inventory refresh for OpenRouter model picker #10641
• Preserve read lines and reload tool output in ACP #10662
• Surface tool call output in CLI and Desktop #10654
• Truncate overlong function names in provider requests #10659
• Preserve ACP tool call update fields in desktop #10653
• Use configured session manager for tool summaries #10628
• Omit disabled OpenRouter reasoning #10517
• Clear stale pending ACP connection after terminal recovery failure #10552
• Confirm pending steer message on queuedSteer notification #10532
• Apply hermit env directly in node shims so fish login shell doesn't break MCP startup #10028

🔧 Improvements

• Upgrade to rmcp 2.0 #10584
• Opus5 support including adaptive thinking #10686
• Refine dark theme message surfaces for consistent, compliant dark mode UX #10693
• Fix Korean translation errors, untranslated entries, and terminology consistency #10667
• Simplify ACP tool-call handling and fix chain summaries #10599
• Enhance the uniffi API layer #10427
• Disable scheduler

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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?

• Diagnostics & Reporting
• Known Issues

a little goose humor 🪿

Why did the developer choose goose as their AI agent?

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

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