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goose
aaif-goose/goose
A general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine.
- Active
- Apache-2.0
- Rust

In short
goose is a GitHub project in the AI category, written mainly in Rust. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence (permissive). Maintenance status: active, last commit 11 Nov 2026. It has 56,453 GitHub stars.
What it does
Maintenance
Active Commits in the last 30 days. Last commit: 11 Nov 2026 · Latest release: v1.59.0 · 10 Nov 2026. How we score this
Licence in plain words
Use, modify and sell it, including in closed-source products. Keep notices, state your changes, and you get an explicit patent grant.
A summary, not legal advice. Read the project's LICENSE file before relying on it. SPDX ↗
goose compared with alternatives
| Project | Stars | Licence | Status | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n8n | 210.1k | Custom licence | Active | 11 Nov 2026 |
| Ollama | 186.6k | MIT | Active | 11 Nov 2026 |
| Dify | 161k | Custom licence | Active | 11 Nov 2026 |
| Open WebUI | 158.4k | Custom licence | Active | 11 Nov 2026 |
| RAGFlow | 94k | Apache-2.0 | Active | 11 Nov 2026 |
| goose (this page) | 56.5k | Apache-2.0 | Active | 11 Nov 2026 |
Same category, sorted by GitHub stars. Numbers checked 11 Nov 2026.
Questions
Is goose free and open source?
Yes. goose is published on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 licence (permissive). Use, modify and sell it, including in closed-source products. Keep notices, state your changes, and you get an explicit patent grant.
Is goose still maintained?
Active: the last commit was on 11 Nov 2026 and the latest release, v1.59.0, came out on 10 Nov 2026. Repoworthy rechecks this daily.
What is goose written in?
goose is mainly written in Rust.
How popular is goose?
As of 11 Nov 2026, goose has 56,453 GitHub stars, 6,576 forks and 450 contributors.
What are some alternatives to goose?
Other AI projects on Repoworthy include n8n, Dify, Open WebUI, RAGFlow and Ollama.
Alternatives in AI
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An open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation engine with Agent capabilities.
A tool to run and manage open models locally or in the cloud.
Numbers from the GitHub API, checked 11 Nov 2026. Text summarised from the project's README. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.