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Goose
Block's open-source, model-agnostic AI agent with 45K+ GitHub stars. Supports 3000+ MCP tools, any LLM, and shareable workflow recipes.
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Overview
Goose is an open-source AI agent built by Block (Square, Cash App) under the Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation. With 45K+ GitHub stars and 500+ contributors, it runs locally on your machine with any LLM provider and connects to 3000+ tools via MCP extensions.
Key Features
- Any LLM — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, OpenRouter, Azure, Bedrock, and more
- 3000+ MCP Extensions — GitHub, Slack, Jira, Docker, databases, and more
- Recipes — Capture workflows as portable YAML configs, share with your team
- MCP Apps — Extensions can render interactive UIs inside the desktop app
- Subagents — Spawn parallel agents for code review, research, and file processing
- Security — Prompt injection detection, tool permission controls, sandbox mode
- Desktop + CLI + API — Native desktop app, full CLI, and embeddable API
Pricing
Free and open source. You pay only for the underlying model API usage, or use free local models via Ollama.
Links
- Website: goose-docs.ai
- GitHub: github.com/block/goose