54.3k stars · Apache-2.0 · v1.51.0 (2026-09-17, from GitHub's own /releases/latest). ungh's cached latest is v1.50.0 of 2026-09-08 · Track this in Scout
An AI agent that installs, runs, edits and tests on the machine in front of it, rather than printing suggestions.
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What it is
goose is an extensible agent written in Rust. It ships as a desktop application for macOS, Linux and Windows, as a command-line tool, and as an API that can be embedded elsewhere. It connects to many language models and extends itself through MCP servers (a standard way for an assistant to gain access to an outside tool).
What it is good for. Anyone who writes code without a colleague to hand, and who wants a second pair of hands for the mechanical parts: upgrading a dependency across twenty files, writing the tests, reproducing a bug. The desktop application also makes it usable by people who do not live in a terminal, which is rarer than it sounds in this category.
- Three ways in — a desktop app, a command-line tool and an embeddable API — so it fits several working styles.
- Apache-2.0, a plain permissive licence with no commercial conditions attached.
- Fast-moving and serious about it: v1.51.0 landed on 17 September 2026, with v1.50.0 only nine days earlier.
- It runs commands. That is the point and it is also the risk, so read what it proposes before approving it, and do not point it at anything precious on the first day.
- Every request costs money at the model provider. An agent that keeps working through a long task keeps spending through it too.
- The project has changed hands. It is now published under
aaif-gooseand its page says it is maintained under the Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation. Old links and bookmarks toblock/goosestill redirect, but scripts that pin the old address should be updated.
Aider-AI/aiderCovered in Edition 25; terminal only, and it commits each change to git as it goes, which makes undoing easy.
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curl -fsSL https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/releases/download/stable/download_cli.sh | bash goose configure goose session
