goose
An open-source AI agent that runs on your machine and works with the model you choose.
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goose is a general-purpose AI agent, not only a coding tool, that runs on your own machine as a desktop app, a command-line tool or an API you can embed. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and sits within the Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation. It works with more than 15 model providers, including local ones through Ollama, and connects to many extensions through the Model Context Protocol.
You choose the model and can keep everything local, so no single company controls what the agent does or sees. Like any agent it acts with your files and logins, so keep its access narrow. What you pay depends on the models you connect, and we could not describe its governance beyond what its repository links to.
- A general-purpose agent that runs on your own machine
- Works with more than 15 model providers, including local ones
- Apache-2.0, within the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation
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For comparison, we also reviewed ChatGPT (14/30) and Claude (15/30) as a benchmark.
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