Block (Jack Dorsey's company) ships this local agent — 534 stars. "Runs on your own machine," privacy-first.
About
🦆 goose has moved! This project has moved from block/goose to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) at the Linux Foundation. Some links and references are still being updated — please bear with us during the transition.
Install
Pick your runtime, copy the snippet, paste it into your client config.
{
"mcpServers": {
"goose": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "goose"]
}
}
}- ·Node.js 20+
- ·An MCP-compatible client
Project pulse
Live from GitHub — see if the project is actually maintained.
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