Open-source desktop AI agent from Block (formerly Square) that runs locally, edits files, executes shell commands, and natively uses MCP servers as its tool layer.
Open-source desktop AI agent from Block (formerly Square) that runs locally, edits files, executes shell commands, and natively uses MCP servers as its tool layer.
Goose is the open-source AI agent that Block (Jack Dorsey's company) developed internally to automate engineering work and then released to the community under the Apache 2.0 license. It runs as a local desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux (with a CLI variant for terminal users) and connects to any LLM provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, Databricks, Ollama, LM Studio, plus a long tail of routes.
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