GOOSE(1)
π goose(1) β like, the whole vibe check β¨
okay bestie, settle in, because this is the manual page for goose from goose 1.51.0 and it's honestly kind of iconic. it's an AI agent, it does agent things, and we're gonna walk through every single flag together like the main characters we are π«Ά
β¨ NAME β¨
goose β literally just. an AI agent. that's the whole name. no notes π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
goose [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [subcommands]
that's it. that's the shape of it. flags up front, subcommands after, go off queen π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
An AI agent.
yep. that's the entire description. we love a mysterious minimalist. she said "my mystique is my brand" and honestly? respect π
π OPTIONS π
the tiny handful of flags she comes with straight out of the box:
-h,--helpβ prints the help. that's it, that's the whole job. ask her for help and she'll give it π-V,--versionβ prints the version. a little "who am i" moment. slay β¨
π SUBCOMMANDS π
okay this is the good part, this is where the whole personality lives. every one of these is her own little mini-manual (that's what the (1) is doing there, iykyk):
configure(1)β configure your goose settings. get her set up the way you like it πinfo(1)β display goose information. just some goose facts, no cap πΈdoctor(1)β check that your Goose setup is working. she's giving concerned bestie making sure everything's okay π©Ίmcp(1)β run one of the mcp servers bundled with goose. bundled! like a little starter pack πacp(1)β run goose as an ACP agent server on stdio. very server. very agent. very stdio πserve(1)β start ACP server over HTTP and WebSocket. she's online now, she's hosting π¦session(1)β start or resume interactive chat sessions. come chat, stay a while, resume whenever πrun(1)β execute commands from an instruction file or stdin. hands-off goose, doing the work for you βrecipe(1)β recipe utilities for validation and deeplinking. recipes!! deeplinks!! chef's kiss πskills(1)β skill utilities. she's got skills, we been knew β¨plugin(1)β manage plugins. plug things in, the goose expands πschedule(1)β manage scheduled jobs. future goose is gonna handle it, present goose is chilling πgateway(1)β manage gateways for external platform integrations. she's making friends out there in other ecosystems πterm(1)β terminal-integrated goose session. right there in your terminal. home turf πcompletion(1)β generate the autocompletion script or Nushell module for the specified shell. tab-tab-tab your way to greatness β¨οΈreview(1)β review the current diff using goose. she will look at your diff. she will have thoughts πhelp(1)β print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s). the classic "help me help you" moment π
β VERSION β
v1.51.0
she's at v1.51.0 and thriving, periodt π
π AUTHORS π
AAIF <ai-oss-tools@block.xyz>
the icons who made her π«Ά
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
go read the rest of the family, they all have their own pages:
goose-acp(1), goose-completion(1), goose-configure(1), goose-doctor(1), goose-gateway(1), goose-info(1), goose-mcp(1), goose-plugin(1), goose-recipe(1), goose-review(1), goose-run(1), goose-schedule(1), goose-serve(1), goose-session(1), goose-skills(1), goose-term(1)
and that's the whole page bestie π no crumbs left, every fact preserved, every flag accounted for. this was 1(goose 1.51.0) β yes, the manual name really does live in the header like the little title card it is, and the footer says the same thing, so we're closing the loop πΈ anyway, version goose 1.51.0, go have fun with her, mwah π
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π¦ where this page comes from
- opensuse-leap 16.0: goose 1.51.0-bp160.1.1 Β· Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND CC0-1.0 AND CDLA-Permissive-2.0 AND ISC AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND MIT-0 AND MPL-2.0 AND Unicode-3.0 AND Zlib AND bzip2-1.0.6
- opensuse-leap 16.0: goose 1.51.0-bp160.1.1 Β· Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND CC0-1.0 AND CDLA-Permissive-2.0 AND ISC AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND MIT-0 AND MPL-2.0 AND Unicode-3.0 AND Zlib AND bzip2-1.0.6
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms