Goose is your on-machine developer agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly within your IDE or terminal

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Unique features 🤖 • Block Employees on Goose • Quick start guide 🚀 • Getting involved! 👋 > [!TIP] > **Quick install:** > ``` > pipx install goose-ai > ``` **Goose** is a developer agent that supercharges your software development by automating an array of coding tasks directly within your terminal or IDE. Guided by you, it can intelligently assess your project's needs, generate the required code or modifications, and implement these changes on its own. Goose can **interact with a multitude of tools via external APIs** such as Jira, GitHub, Slack, infrastructure and data pipelines, and more -- if your task uses a **shell command or can be carried out by a Python script, Goose can do it for you too!** Like semi-autonomous driving, Goose handles the heavy lifting, allowing you to focus on other priorities. Simply set it on a task and return later to find it completed, boosting your productivity with less manual effort.

## Unique features of Goose compared to other AI assistants - **Autonomy**: A copilot should be able to also fly the plane at times, which in the development world means running code, debugging tests, installing dependencies, not just providing text output and autocomplete or search. Goose moves beyond just generating code snippets by (1) **using the shell** and (2) by seeing what happens with the code it writes and starting a feedback loop to solve harder problems, **refining solutions iteratively like a human developer**. Your code's best wingman. - **Extensibility**: Open-source and fully customizable, Goose integrates with your workflow and allows you to extend it for even more control. **Toolkits let you add new capabilities to Goose.** They are anything you can implement as a Python function (e.g. API requests, deployments, search, etc). We have a growing library of toolkits to use, but more importantly you can create your own. This gives Goose the ability to run these commands and decide if and when a tool is needed to complete your request! **Creating your own toolkits give you a way to bring your own private context into Goose's capabilities.** And you can use *any* LLM you want under the hood, as long as it supports tool use. ## What Block employees have to say about Goose > With Goose, I feel like I am Maverick. > > Thanks a ton for creating this. 🙏 > I have been having way too much fun with it today. -- P, Machine Learning Engineer > I wanted to construct some fake data for an API with a large request body and business rules I haven't memorized. So I told Goose which object to update and a test to run that calls the vendor. Got it to use the errors descriptions from the vendor response to keep correcting the request until it was successful. So good! -- J, Software Engineer > I asked Goose to write up a few Google Scripts that mimic Clockwise's functionality (particularly, creating blocks on my work calendar based on events in my personal calendar, as well as color-coding calendar entries based on type and importance). Took me under an hour. If you haven't tried Goose yet, I highly encourage you to do so! -- M, Software Engineer > If anyone was looking for another reason to check it out: I just asked Goose to break a string-array into individual string resources across eleven localizations, and it performed amazingly well and saved me a bunch of time doing it manually or figuring out some way to semi-automate it. -- A, Android Engineer > Hi team, thank you for much for making Goose, it's so amazing. Our team is working on migrating Dashboard components to React components. I am working with Goose to help the migration. -- K, Software Engineer > Got Goose to update a dependency, run tests, make a branch and a commit... it was 🤌. Not that complicated but I was impressed it figured out how to run tests from the README. -- J, Software Engineer > Wanted to document what I had Goose do -- took about 30 minutes end to end! I created a custom CLI command in the `gh CLI` library to download in-line comments on PRs about code changes (currently they aren't directly viewable). I don't know Go *that well* and I definitely didn't know where to start looking in the code base or how to even test the new command was working and Goose did it all for me 😁 -- L, Software Engineer > Hi Team, just wanted to share my experience of using Goose as a non-engineer! ... I just asked Goose to ensure that my environment is up to date and copied over a guide into my prompt. Goose managed everything flawlessly, keeping me informed at every step... I was truly impressed with how well it works and how easy it was to get started! 😍 -- M, Product Manager **See more of our use-cases in our [docs][use-cases]!** ## Quick start guide ### Installation To install Goose, use `pipx`. First ensure [pipx][pipx] is installed: ``` sh brew install pipx pipx ensurepath ``` You can also place `.goosehints` in `~/.config/goose/.goosehints` if you like for always loaded hints personal to you. Then install Goose: ```sh pipx install goose-ai ``` ### Running Goose #### Start a session From your terminal, navigate to the directory you'd like to start from and run: ```sh goose session start ``` You will see the Goose prompt `G❯`: ``` G❯ type your instructions here exactly as you would tell a developer. ``` Now you are interacting with Goose in conversational sessions - something like a natural language driven code interpreter. The default toolkit allows Goose to take actions through shell commands and file edits. You can interrupt Goose with `CTRL+D` or `ESC+Enter` at any time to help redirect its efforts. #### Exit the session If you are looking to exit, use `CTRL+D`, although Goose should help you figure that out if you forget. #### Resume a session When you exit a session, it will save the history in `~/.config/goose/sessions` directory and you can resume it later on: ``` sh goose session resume ``` To see more documentation on the CLI commands currently available to Goose check out the documentation [here][cli]. If you’d like to develop your own CLI commands for Goose, check out the [Contributing document][contributing]. ### Next steps Learn how to modify your Goose profiles.yaml file to add and remove functionality (toolkits) and providing context to get the most out of Goose in our [Getting Started Guide][getting-started]. **Want to move out of the terminal and into an IDE?** We have some experimental IDE integrations for VSCode and JetBrains IDEs: * https://github.com/square/goose-vscode * https://github.com/Kvadratni/goose-intellij ## Getting involved! There is a lot to do! If you're interested in contributing, a great place to start is picking a `good-first-issue`-labelled ticket from our [issues list][gh-issues]. More details on how to develop Goose can be found in our [Contributing Guide][contributing]. We are a friendly, collaborative group and look forward to working together![^1] Check out and contribute to more experimental features in [Goose Plugins][goose-plugins]! Let us know what you think in our [Discussions][discussions] or the [**`#goose`** channel on Discord][goose-channel]. [^1]: Yes, Goose is open source and always will be. Goose is released under the ASL2.0 license meaning you are free to use it however you like. See [LICENSE.md][license] for more details. 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