# goose

> General-purpose open source AI agent for desktop, terminal

- Page on StartupList: https://startuplist.tech/launches/goose
- Website: https://goose-docs.ai/
- Category: AI Agents
- Price: Open source
- Company: AAIF (Agentic AI Foundation) (https://startuplist.tech/companies/aaif-agentic-ai-foundation)
- Used for: Automate workflows, Ship code faster, Learn AI

## At a glance

- The problem it solves: People need an AI agent that can complete everyday tasks on their own machine, beyond coding, without sending control of their tools to a closed service
- Who it's for: Businesses and consumers
- How it finds customers: Reddit and communities, Launch sites

## About

goose is a general-purpose AI agent that runs on your own machine. The page says it is not only for code: you can use it for research, writing, automation, data analysis, or anything else you need to get done.

goose comes as a native desktop app for macOS, Linux and Windows, as a full command-line interface for terminal workflows, and as an API that lets you embed it in other software. The runtime is built in Rust.

For developers who want to build their own agents, the goose Development Kit (GDK) exposes the runtime components behind goose. The page says agents built with it can run across native apps, servers and the browser, and can resume from saved state, with control over models, tools and agent behaviour.

goose works with more than 15 model providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, OpenRouter, Azure and Bedrock. You can use API keys, or connect existing Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscriptions through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).

Other features on the page include Recipes, which are portable YAML configs that capture a workflow and can be shared with a team or run in CI. Extensions can also render interactive UIs inside the desktop app through MCP Apps. Subagents can run tasks in parallel, such as code review, research or file processing, while keeping the main conversation clean.

For safety, the page lists prompt injection detection, tool permission controls, a sandbox mode, and an adversary reviewer that watches for unsafe actions.

goose supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with 70+ documented extensions, and works as an ACP server so it can be used from Zed, JetBrains or VS Code. It is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence and is part of the Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation.

The page says goose is free to download and is open source. It does not list paid plans, so no price is given here.

The desktop app can be downloaded for macOS, Linux and Windows, and the CLI can be installed with a single curl command from the project's GitHub releases.

## Links

- [goose on StartupList](https://startuplist.tech/launches/goose)
- [Website](https://goose-docs.ai/)