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Goose

Block’s Open-Source Desktop Agent That Wants to Be Your OS Companion

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Justin Wilson
Aug 09, 2026
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Most desktop AI agents are thin wrappers around a chat window. Goose is not that. It is a general-purpose agent that lives on your machine, talks to your filesystem, connects to 70-plus tools through MCP, and runs against 15-plus LLM providers including fully local models through Ollama. At 52,584 stars and backed by the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Fo…

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