goose
Project record
Maintained by goose, a Series of LF Projects, LLC (Agentic AI Foundation project)3110
goose is an open-source, general-purpose AI agent that runs on the user's machine, with a desktop app, a command-line interface, and an API, and is written in Rust. It works with multiple hosted and local model providers and connects to extensions through the Model Context Protocol. Block created goose and contributed it to the Agentic AI Foundation.143
- Documentation: Documentation (external site: goose-docs.ai)
- Repository: Repository (external site: github.com)
- Documentation: Governance (external site: github.com)
- License: LICENSE (external site: github.com)
- Release notes: Reviewed release (external site: github.com)
Availability and license
Overall availability
Source code, desktop and CLI downloads, and documentation are public. A model provider must be configured, for example with an API key or a supported subscription; provider access is governed by that provider's terms.15
Availability is separate from permission: read the license before using or redistributing.
The repository's LICENSE is the Apache License 2.0 with a 2024 copyright notice for Block, Inc.; Block's launch announcement also stated Apache 2.0. The governance document says documentation other than specifications is made available under CC BY 4.0, but no separate documentation license file is recorded here. The license does not cover model weights or third-party providers and extensions.283
Component reuse rights
- weights
- Unknown — no complete fact-level rights review
- code
- Reviewed qualifying license recorded — check scope and conditions
- data
- Unknown — no complete fact-level rights review
- documentation
- Unknown — no complete fact-level rights review
No complete system-rights review is recorded for this release.
Public materials checklist
| Item | Status | Notes and evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Source codeIs the source code publicly readable? | Public | Public repository at aaif-goose/goose; the former block/goose address redirects there.17 |
| DocumentationIs user documentation published? | Public | Public documentation site with quickstart, installation guides, and tutorials.45 |
| InstallationAre installation instructions or packages publicly available? | Public | The installation guide documents desktop downloads, Homebrew packages, Linux DEB, RPM, and Flatpak packages, a CLI install script, and a PowerShell path for Windows. An LLM provider must be configured before use.5 |
| Supported platformsAre supported operating systems or hardware documented? | Public | Desktop app and CLI for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/Fedora, and other distributions), and Windows, including WSL for the CLI.5 |
| Release statusAre versioned releases published? | Public | Reviewed release v1.52.0, published September 23, 2026 and marked Latest. This entry describes the project rather than one release.6 |
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Organization context
Provenance and derivatives
Block's Open Source Program Office announced codename goose on January 28, 2025. Block contributed goose as a founding project of the Agentic AI Foundation, announced on December 9, 2025, and on April 7, 2026 the repository moved from Block's GitHub organization to aaif-goose and the documentation to goose-docs.ai.897
U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S.-governed project
The project's governance document states that goose, founded by Block and now stewarded by the Agentic AI Foundation, has been established as a series of LF Projects, LLC, a Delaware series limited liability company, and that governance changes also need LF Projects' approval. The Agentic AI Foundation is a directed fund of The Linux Foundation, which describes itself as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit with a legal postal address in San Francisco, California. Maintainer roles are tied to individuals rather than employers. Block, which created goose, lists its principal executive office in Oakland, California, but eligibility rests on the current documented governance, not on the founding company or contributors.31211131415
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