Overview
Open-source on-machine AI agent from Block that automates engineering tasks via MCP tools, models of your choice, and a desktop or CLI interface.
Details
Goose is an open-source AI agent from Block (Square/Cash App) designed to run on your local machine and automate engineering tasks (editing code, running shells, calling APIs, and orchestrating workflows) through the Model Context Protocol. It ships as both a desktop app and a CLI, supports any LLM provider including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and local models via Ollama, and exposes a rich extensions ecosystem of MCP servers. Goose is notable for being an enterprise-backed but fully open-source project with a strong focus on extensibility and local control.