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Open-source general-purpose AI agent (desktop app, CLI and API) that runs on your machine and works with cloud or local LLMs.

  • Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF); originally created by Block
  • Local or cloud
  • Free, open source

Official site · Source code

Where it ranks

  • B
    Coding
    Coding agents · Local · via DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
    With cloud models: tier S (via Claude Opus 5.5)

Ranked by its own benchmark result where it has one; otherwise by the best model it offers.

Facts

Vendor
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF); originally created by Block
Approach
Coding agents
Where it runs
Runs fully on your hardware with local models; cloud models optional
Interface
Desktop app, Command line, API
Skill level
Intermediate: some setup or configuration
Price
Free, open source
Pricing notes
Open source and free; you pay your own model provider costs or run local models (Ollama, LM Studio).
Source code
Open source (Apache-2.0)
GitHub stars
55.4k (18 Oct 2026)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Price from goose-docs.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Models it gives you

Its own benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Terminal-Bench 2.054.3%Goose + Claude Opus 4.5
rank 56 of 142 entries; raw accuracy 54.33 ± 2.63 (95% CI half-width); entry date 2025-11-24; not marked verified; agent org: Block; read via the site's leaderboard-read API (page is client-rendered)
18 Oct 2026tbench.ai

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