goose

goose is an open-source AI agent with desktop, command-line and API interfaces. This catalog artifact supplies the Mac desktop application. Connect a supported model provider, choose the permitted tools and work within the intended project or task scope. MCP extensions can add access to other applications and services.

Agent workflows

The desktop interface supports conversations, tool use and configurable extensions. Generated edits and command output still require review and appropriate tests. Tool access can modify files, run commands or send information to external services, so inspect extension definitions and approval settings before enabling them. A recipe can encode reusable task parameters, but its provenance and requested permissions remain important.

The exact 1.53.0 notes add resizable picture-in-picture MCP Apps, conversation quoting and live model metadata with a bundled fallback. Version 1.52.0 adds live voice conversations and redesigns settings, while 1.51.0 changes the desktop agent-loop routing. Those changes are version-scoped in the release notes rather than assumed from the current homepage.

Mac artifact and permissions

The exact official 1.53.0 Goose.zip is 212,918,523 bytes. The version-tagged download component and release workflow identify Goose.zip as the Apple Silicon build and Goose_intel_mac.zip as a separate Intel build. Read-only inspection of this exact 1.53.0 ZIP confirms an arm64 main executable. Both its Info.plist and LC_BUILD_VERSION declare macOS 12.0 as the minimum. This applies to the current Apple Silicon desktop artifact; the separate Intel build and optional model providers or extensions have their own requirements.

The publisher installation guide requires writable configuration/log locations. The exact desktop packaging configuration declares microphone access for voice dictation and Apple Events for controlling other applications. These permissions should be granted only for the workflows you intend to use; enabling extensions can introduce further requirements.

License, accounts and privacy

goose is Apache-2.0 licensed open-source software. Model-provider accounts, API usage and optional connected services have separate terms and charges. A free application download does not imply free or unlimited inference from a remote model.

Prompts, selected file content, tool results and attachments can be sent to the configured provider. Connected extensions can transmit data to additional services. Review provider privacy settings, organization policy and credentials before processing sensitive material. Running the agent on your Mac does not make every operation local-only.

The official source icon and a genuine publisher documentation image of the dark session interface are supplied. The screenshot's exact build and operating system are not established and are explicitly left unspecified.

Official project · Official installation documentation

Catalog snapshot distinction

The current package download still resolves to 1.53.0, 212,918,523 bytes, while production version history now includes 1.54.0. The latest three distinct history versions are 1.54.0, 1.53.0 and 1.52.0, and each has exact official notes. The official 1.54.0 Goose.zip is 208,684,969 bytes, but that newer asset size is not substituted for the current 1.53.0 package download.