Agent harness
Goose
Goose is a Apache-2.0-licensed AI agent harness for Linux · macOS · Windows. It connects to local runtimes including Ollama.
- Category
- Agent harness
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install
- binary / source / docker
- Interface
- GUI
- Model classes
- llm
- Latest version
- v1.42.0
- GitHub stars
- 51,167
As of 2026-07-13 · source · GitHub · homepage
Hardware
Native desktop app or CLI; works with 15+ LLM providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google
Works with these local runtimes
Like most tools in this category, Goose commonly runs against cloud APIs — a local model served by one of these runtimes is the option we cover here.
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