Have you used Goose yet? I want to hear about your experience if so. And if not, you should be.
Discussion
Yes. It's worked quite well for me in limited testing. It struggles with some tasks that involve multiple MCPs and files, but works well for simple things like creating and iteratively testing scripts or docker containers.
Biggest issues have been rate limiting errors from the free version of Gemini and a lack of ability to add generic LLM endpoints for sites like deep infra, but it sounds like that will be coming soon. I will probably ramp up my usage when that happens!
I’ve also hit rate limit problems using the paid OpenAI API, which I didn’t expect. Otherwise, impressive.
I haven’t used it yet, but I’ve been using MCP tools with Claude and it’s been incredible. What are the benefits of using Goose over this method?
I have and I gave up, it didn't really work for me.
Goose only answers me 1/20 of the times I try to talk to it. Half of the times it just does nothing, the other half it shows the loading spinner forever. The behavior is pretty random. I'm using OpenRouter and I switched between multiple models. The issue seems to not happen if I turn off all MCP servers, but I didn't test it much that way to be sure.
Hard to see advantages over aider or claude code, in terms of cli interface. But I did not use it for anything else besides coding. What do you see as advantages of Goose over related cli apps?