Open-source AI agent with a desktop app and CLI that runs on your machine, connects to MCP extensions and works with any model, including Ollama.
Open-source alternative toClaude CodeCursor
goose at a glance
Checked 21 Oct 2026goose (v1.55.0, October 2026) is an Apache-2.0 AI agent that runs on your machine, with a desktop app for macOS, Linux and Windows, a CLI and an API. It edits files and runs shell commands through its Developer extension, connects to 70+ MCP extensions and runs headless in GitHub Actions. It works with 15+ providers, local models via Ollama or LM Studio, or your existing Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription. A VS Code extension is experimental.
RepoQuarry. “goose.” Checked 21 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/gooseHow much of Claude Code does it replace?
- Personal use
- Confirmed: Yes
- For a business
- Confirmed: Yes
6 of 6 jobs. CLI and desktop agent with MCP and GitHub Actions; the VS Code extension is experimental, its docs list no JetBrains plugin, and results depend on your model.
How much of Cursor does it replace?
- Personal use
- Confirmed: Yes
- For a business
- Confirmed: Yes
3 of 7 jobs. A general-purpose agent beside your editor rather than an AI editor; no tab completion or cloud background agents.
For code in an AI-first editor, multi-line tab completion and next-edit prediction, ask questions about your whole codebase, run agents in the cloud in the background, see other Cursor alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.
Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
goose is a general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine.github.com · goose#readme ↗ today
each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright licensegithub.com · LICENSE ↗ today
each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright licensegithub.com · LICENSE ↗ today
goose works with 15+ providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, OpenRouter, Azure, Bedrock, and more.github.com · goose#readme ↗ today
A native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows.github.com · goose#readme ↗ today
This script will fetch the latest version of goose and set it up on your system.goose-docs.ai · installation ↗ today
No licence changes since we started watching. Licence watch: follow goose and we email you if its licence terms change.
Growth and activity in detail
Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.
Numbers appear after the first nightly fetch from GitHub.