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Tools: Codename Goose
Category: AI assistants and agents
Site: github.com
Codename Goose
Block's open-source agent that installs, executes, edits and tests, against whatever model you point it at.
Extensible where most agents are opinionated.
What it is sold for
Running an open agent that can operate your machine.
The address redirects to https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose, which is worth knowing before you follow it.
Same shelf
The rest of ai assistants and agents, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Generates and hosts WordPress sites, with the build and the hosting sold as one product.
- Agent Shadow Brain did not answerListed as a background analysis agent. The repository returns 404.
- Assigns work to a group of agents and tracks it, treating them as a team roster rather than as one assistant.
- A TypeScript toolkit that puts one interface in front of many model providers, including streaming and tool calls.
- An agent that spends more compute at inference time on harder engineering problems rather than answering immediately.
- Pair programming in the terminal. Reads the repository, proposes edits, and commits them to git with a message.
- Amazon's original completion assistant. The name is retired and the address now serves Amazon Q Developer.
- Amazon's coding assistant, integrated with AWS accounts and services rather than with the editor alone.
ImranTools[Codename Goose]