Goose

Pricing

• Goose itself - free and open source under Apache-2.0
• Models - pay your provider directly per API key, run local models through Ollama, or reuse a Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini subscription through ACP

Install

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

brew install block-goose-cli

brew install --cask block-goose

Models

15+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, OpenRouter, Azure, and Bedrock. v1.53.0 added Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna, and v1.54.0 added adaptive thinking for Claude Sonnet and Haiku 5.5. Pick a provider and model with goose configure.

Recent changes

• Oct 16v1.55.0 adds an AIgateway declarative provider, caps auto-compaction at 225k tokens by default, propagates W3C trace context from ACP prompts to MCP tool calls, and removes background subagents and the orchestrator.
• Oct 8v1.54.0 prompts for a goose mode during first-time configure, adds HTML session export with an interactive viewer, and fixes GPT-6.1 Sol reasoning-effort handling.
• Oct 2v1.53.0 adds Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna, a Meta Muse Code provider, a lean ACP-only binary, live model metadata from models.dev, and a resizable picture-in-picture window for MCP Apps.

Sources: goose-docs.ai, Install goose, GitHub releases

Read next

• Goose: The Open Source AI Agent With 70+ MCP ExtensionsGoose is an open-source Rust AI agent with a desktop app, CLI, and API that works across 15+ LLM providers and 70+ MCP extensions. Here is where it fits.
• MCP Apps vs Tool Calling vs Standalone UIs: Interactive Interfaces for Agent Tools ComparedMCP Apps vs tool calling vs standalone web UIs: how sandboxed interactive UIs for MCP servers compare to the other two, and when to use each approach.
• Terminal Agents Are the New Developer RuntimeTerminal agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI and OpenCode are converging on one runtime layer: permissions, sandboxing, rollback, receipts and cost controls.

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