Goose

✨ Features

• TUI command on goose-cli #9385
• TUI diff viewer #9260
• goose review local code review command #9114
• /goal command for agent self-evaluation before finishing #9069
• Hooks system for PreToolUse denial and extensibility #9093, #9304
• Slash commands (built-in, skill, recipe) in ACP server #9238
• Open-plugins generalization + skills #9112
• Summon subagent instructions #9325
• Unified thinking effort control across all providers #9242
• NEAR AI Cloud provider #9352
• Scaleway provider #9254
• Vercel AI Gateway provider #9144
• Atomic Chat declarative OpenAI-compatible provider #9210
• Routstr declarative provider #9175
• FuturMix provider #8840
• oMLX declarative provider #9177
• Harbor eval runner #9138
• goose://resume and goose://new-session deep links #9343, #9196
• MAX_CODE_BLOCK_LINES configurable via env vars #9301
• Honor GOOSE_FAST_MODEL env var in ModelConfig #9296
• GPT-5.5 in known models #9292
• Paginate ACP session list #9199
• Pass session cwd param to ACP providers #9229
• Opt-in to Vercel AI gateway leaderboard #9259
• GOOSE_OAUTH_CALLBACK_PORT for stable OAuth redirect_uri #9209
• Proactive OAuth token refresh to avoid re-auth on every session #8386
• Strip chain-of-thought markers from custom provider output #8635
• Encrypted Nostr session sharing #8922
• Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) translation #8765
• Russian language support #9406
• Turkish desktop locale #9392
• Nushell terminal and completion support #8628
• Optional --parameters flag for scheduled recipes #8741
• Quarterly option for scheduler #9076
• GitHub Copilot /responses API support #9043
• Worktree-aware directory switcher #8450
• Chat history search feature #8448
• Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection #8739
• Linux Vulkan support for local inference #9038
• Linux musl CLI builds #9240
• Windows CUDA release artifacts #8750
• GOOSE_DISABLE_TOOL_CALL_SUMMARY env var #8947

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Tolerate missing responses output #9449
• Stop main window growing taller on every launch #9409
• Desktop chat search session limiting #9366
• Serialize per-session agent creation to stop duplicate MCP init #9357
• Respect GOOSE_MAX_TURNS in gateway sessions #9354
• Send empty object instead of null for Anthropic tool_use input #9355
• Preserve thinking content for provider context #9314
• Mention configurable timeout env vars in Ollama stream stall error #9246
• Include full recipe parameter details in load/discovery output #9233
• Remove unused fetch-metadata IPC handler (SSRF) #9340
• Use context limit from /model/info for LiteLLM custom models #9303
• Plain > prompt instead of goose emoji in CLI #9305
• Stop killing goosed when a window closes #9302
• Emit trace_output as span attribute instead of event #9255
• Check file fallback when keyring has no entry #9279
• Align sidebar hamburger in macOS fullscreen #9257
• Use current_exe() instead of PATH lookup when spawning goose #9236
• Set TCP_USER_TIMEOUT on streamable HTTP clients #9207
• Activate custom provider after adding via configure #9213
• Flush OTLP traces reliably on exit with configurable timeout #9228
• Reduce excessive MISSING_TRANSLATION warnings for fallback locales #9294
• Eliminate cross-window deep link contamination #9273
• Improve Telegram gateway error reporting and connection reliability #9223
• Enable VT processing on Windows Console Host #9248
• Zero out cost for local providers (ollama, local) #9219
• Resolve Azure CLI on Windows by using az.cmd #9215
• Handle non-interactive terminal in goose configure on Windows #9214
• Persist accumulated cost in session DB to survive reload #9191
• Prevent tool-use marker leakage in toolshim output #8310
• Re-apply canonical limits when delegate overrides model #9183
• Report cumulative total_tokens in stream-json/json output #8910
• Refresh GCP metadata server token on expiration #8929
• Apply request_params to outgoing OpenAI API payload #9151
• Gemini 3.x known_location Global routing entries #9142
• Coalesce streaming Thinking deltas + list available tools on not-found #9162
• Honor Retry-After on 429 responses #9161
• Preserve user-set session name for recipe-based chats #9079
• Enforce exp independently of MAX_TOKEN_AGE_SECONDS in OIDC proxy #8839
• Improve inline code contrast in light theme #9058
• Omit max_tokens for OpenAI-compatible requests when unset #9123
• Set correct MCP-app host capabilities #9116
• Normalize nullable schemas for Vertex Gemini compatibility #8930
• Isolate GitHub recipe temp paths #8878
• Set X-Initiator header on GitHub Copilot requests #8809
• Honor dynamic_models: false in declarative provider configs #8795
• Cache trailing message for stable prefix across Bedrock agent turns #8916
• Case-insensitive model name lookup for context_limit #8906
• Handle Bedrock ReasoningContent blocks gracefully #8843
• Ensure parallel tool image responses don't interleave on Databricks #9241
• Insert tool pair summaries at chronological position in conversation #9087
• Enable SQLite foreign key enforcement in session pool #9121
• Deleted chat session still appears in sidebar list #8674
• Correct WSL2 OS detection by removing PWD-based Windows override #8869
• Accept null tool_call arguments in OpenAI streaming chunks #9035
• Use python3 in developer extension instructions for macOS/Linux #8784
• Synchronously reap ACP child to avoid SIGCHLD race #9023
• Elicitation fixes #8999
• Return 400 instead of panicking on invalid CSP header value #8810
• Keep SSE reconnect loop alive on long disconnects #8846
• Convert quoted numeric config values to numbers if needed #8844
• Use appInfo instead of clientInfo in MCP Apps init handshake #9249
• Use mkdir -p for self-test workspace initialization #9247
• Exclude preprompt from session title generation #8793
• Prevent login-shell PATH probe from suspending goose on startup #8804

🔧 Improvements

• Local inference: stricter GGUF requirements, auto detection of tool calling support, fixed thinking output parsing #9442
• Simplify UI customization #9353
• Build summon instructions per turn #9329
• Protocol cleanup #9147
• Dependency hygiene #9360
• Preserve selected branch across project chats #9010
• Prompt injection mitigation: update pattern-based detection to reduce FPs #9350
• Surface resolved Databricks model metadata #9206
• Include request URL in provider error messages #9232
• Flag for login shell PATH #9313
• Remove popular chat topics from new chat screen #9307
• Structured per-provider config block, non-destructive provider switching #8977
• TUI spacing/layout improvements #9243
• Preserve thinking content for providers that require it #8857
• Dynamically refresh skill instructions each turn #9217
• Better parsing of pasted HTML as markdown #9190
• Show tool name in approval prompt #9216
• Localize hardcoded strings in provider settings UI #8931
• Move settings into app shell #9047
• Location column in CLI skills table #8785
• Consolidate logging setup into shared helper #8817
• Support optional api_key configuration for declarative openai-engine providers #9202
• Remove vendored Windows binaries #9318
• Polish sidebar and context panel #9059
• Polish inline code snippet styling #9011
• Refresh onboarding when provider catalog loads #9051
• Recipe discovery/execution in ACP server #8925
• Group consecutive tool calls into one summarized chain card #8995
• Replace artifact heuristics/regexes with protocol messages #8996
• Improvements to LM Studio declarative provider #8973
• Parallelize provider resolution and eagerly init SQLite pool #8899
• Deduplicate _goose/providers/list RPC call at startup #8873
• Native arm64 runners for Linux artifact builds #9075
• ACP streamable HTTP spec compliance #9034
• Provider-first onboarding #9039
• Redesign extensions page #8940
• Redesign skills library #8868
• Skills in chat composer #8881
• Mergeable configs cleanup #8378

📚 Documentation

• Stats update #9410
• Hooks guide #9288
• Hooks feature blog post #9227
• Document summon extension requirement for delegate and load tools #9231
• Guide for connecting goose Desktop to a remote goosed server #9275
• SaladCloud AI Gateway provider documentation #9253
• Reorganize documentation #9310
• Fix internal documentation anchors #9094
• Tunnel remote access documentation update #9077
• Linux desktop Vulkan packages #9323
• Orchestrating with goose blog #9104
• Goose with Peekaboo blog #8884
• Built-in local inference blog post #8808
• MiniMax and office QA benchmark blog post #8984
• Repology badge in README #9245