Goose Release Notes

✨ Features

• Hooks system for extensible pre/post tool execution #9093
• PreToolUse denial hook support #9304
• /goal command for agent self-evaluation before finishing #9069
• goose review local code review command #9114
• Diff viewer in TUI #9260
• Slash commands (built-in, skill, recipe) in ACP server #9238
• Unified thinking effort control across all providers #9242
• Open-plugins generalization + skills #9112
• Summon subagent instructions #9325
• Proactive OAuth token refresh to avoid re-auth on every session #8386
• goose://new-session deep link to open fresh chat #9196
• GOOSE_OAUTH_CALLBACK_PORT for stable OAuth redirect_uri #9209
• Paginated session list in ACP #9199
• Pass session cwd param to ACP providers #9229 …

✨ Features

• Hooks support for customizable agent behavior #9093
• Agents CRUD operations #9084
• Projects as backend sources with system prompt injection #8739
• Auto-updating for plugins #9061
• Linux Vulkan support for local inference #9038
• ACP streamable HTTP spec compliance #9034
• Expose built-in skills through sources list ACP calls #9045
• Provider-first onboarding flow #9039
• Move goose2 provider catalog behind ACP layer #9030
• Group consecutive tool calls into one summarized chain card #8995
• Replace raw config and secret methods in ACP #9000
• goose2 support for custom providers in UI & ACP #8924
• Configurable Ollama host in goose2 #8912
• Update provider row after saving credentials #8914 …

✨ 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 …

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🪿 Goose v1.30.0 Release Notes

Released: April 8, 2026

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✨ New Features

🖥️ Terminal UI (TUI) Overhaul

• Tab-expandable tool calls — tool call output now collapses cleanly with tab to expand (#8136)
• Improved message rendering — better ordering, streaming/scrolling, and overall visual polish for messages, tool calls, and text entry (#8144, #8156, #8214)
• Independent --text mode — text mode is now decoupled from the normal TUI for a cleaner headless experience (#8210)
• goose serve — new subcommand to run Goose as a background service (#8209)

🔌 Providers & Models

• Gemini OAuth provider — first-class OAuth-based authentication for Google Gemini (#8129)
• Copilot ACP provider — new provider for GitHub Copilot via ACP (#8154)
• Zhipu declarative provider — adds Zhipu AI with configurable ZHIPU_BASE_URL override (#8204) …

✨ Features

• Ability to manage sub recipes in desktop UI #6360
• Display delegate sub agents logs in UI #7519
• Pass toolInfo to MCP Apps via hostContext #7506
• Ability to expand sidebar to see chat names #7816
• Sigstore/SLSA provenance verification for Rust self-update #7818
• GOOSE_SHELL env var to configure preferred shell #7909
• CodeMode ToolDisclosure variants support #7926
• Feature-gate local inference dependencies #7976
• ACP session/set_config and stabilize list, delete and close #7984
• Gemini-ACP provider with subscription models support #8000
• Orchestration support #7999
• Upgrade ink for performance, use stdio instead of http #8004
• Filter tools by MCP Apps visibility metadata #8022

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Empty tool results from resource content (e.g. auto visualiser) #7866 …