Goose releases

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Remove Windows CUDA build variant from release pipeline #8895
• Windows CLI updates now use standard asset instead of CUDA variant #8895

✨ Features

• Exa AI-powered search tool #8487
• Desktop notification when goose finishes a task #8647
• @agent mention support in chat #8571
• /skills command #8600
• Associate threads with projects #8745
• Auto-compaction for goose2 context window UX #8721
• Message bubble + action tray in goose2 #8720
• Voice dictation via direct-ACP pattern in goose2 #8609
• Context window usage in goose2 chat input #8613
• Unix domain socket transport for StreamableHttp MCP #7860
• Cash App extension in Extensions Library #8622
• /edit command for on-demand prompt editing #8566
• Novita AI as declarative provider #8432
• Kimi Code provider with OAuth device flow authentication #8466
• Extension management screen in TUI #8536
• Extensions settings page and context panel widget #8540
• Client ID Metadata Document (CIMD) support for OAuth #8550
• Context window usage inline in status bar #7607
• Chat attachments in goose2 #8534
• Husky git hooks for ui/goose2 #8577

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Cache TLS cert to disk to avoid slow startup on first launch #8174
• Preprompt would show after loading session #8744
• Handle missing delta field in streaming chunks #8700
• Accept streaming chunks with both reasoning fields in OpenAI provider #8715
• strict:false for Responses API tools and gpt-5.4 to known models #8636
• Correct grammar in apps view description #8679
• Links in chat could not be opened #8544
• Run shell tool under bash/sh regardless of login shell #8659
• Append /chat/completions for prefixed v1 base URLs #8521
• Align Kimicode model metadata with live Kimi Code API #8588
• Stop idle 300ms re-render loop that could OOM the TUI #8616
• Chat loading-state model placeholder #8431
• Expand tool calls by default when Response Style is Detailed #8478
• Create logs dir before writing LLM request log #8522
• Enable token usage tracking and configurable stream timeout for Ollama provider #8493
• Use sqlx chrono decode for thread timestamps instead of manual parsing #8575
• Remove double border on content in chat #8545
• Accept self-signed certs from configured external goosed host #8400
• Sync sidebar sessions after chat history deletion #7707
• Prevent session hang when tool approval required in headless mode #7915
• Eliminate ~5s delay when opening Switch Models panel with local provider #8626
• Removed hardcoded dependency of goose-acp-macro #8753
• Stop load openai fast model for openapi compatible custom endpoint #8644

🔧 Improvements

• Split agent setup into staged phases to reduce startup blocking #8746
• Extensions management migrated to ACP+ #8733
• Harden code review skill for async state and default-resolution bugs #8740
• Persist and reliably apply chat model selection #8734
• Overhaul provider inventory and agent/model selection #8652
• Consolidate provider ACP methods onto inventory #8710
• Manage skills as sources over ACP #8675
• Extract shared OAuth device-flow helper #8619
• Full width assistant message in goose2 #8760
• TUI improvements #8736
• Goose2 agent management flows #8737
• Sidebar polish: search copy, dividers, project reorder, DnD fixes #8568
• Sidebar activity indicators, placeholder token, and search field refinements #8606
• Warm shell PATH lookup during session init #8631
• Gate perf logs and dedup build_config_update on first message #8627
• Use default fallback provider and model if default are set #8650
• Show individual untracked files in git changes widget #8574
• Goose2 session working dir #8624
• Update rmcp to 1.5.0 #8618
• Merge goose-acp crate into goose #8726
• Upgrade goose SDK and TUI to be compatible with the latest agentclientprotocol/sdk package #8667
• Declare and enforce MSRV of 1.91.1 #8670
• Pass globally unique conversation identifier as sessionId in Databricks API call #8576
• Move agent skills to repo root for tool discoverability #8535
• Reset ChatGPT Codex auth during OAuth setup #8569
• Isolate gym scenario Cargo projects from parent workspace #8640

📚 Documentation

• AGENTS.md section on goose2 desktop backend architecture #8732
• Rendex MCP Server extension tutorial #8541
• Blog post about Mesh LLM provider option #8655
• Remove stale gemini-acp references #8572
• Replace deprecated Claude ACP package links #8625