Today’s special: Goose à la Workflow.
Had an amazing AI workflow? Good luck repeating it. Agentic workflows rarely behave the same way twice.
Goose recipes let you lock in your exact setup so you can reuse it or share it anytime.
👨🏽🍳 Let’s cook!
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No flashy demo today. Just Goose saving someone hours by automating 5 tedious, everyday tasks... each in under a minute.
This is the AI we were promised.


5 Boring Tasks I Gave to My AI Agent Today (That Saved Me Hours)
Forget the flashy demos. Here's everyday use cases for AI.
With goose, you can talk to your Snowflake data like a friend.
Natural language in, Cortex insights out, powered by Snowflake’s new MCP server and your open source AI agent. ❄️
Try it out: 
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Getting started with goose using Snowflake and MCP
Snowflake’s Cortex completion models can now be used with goose, making the Snowflake MCP server for Cortex Search and Cortex Analyst a…
📺 This week on Block Open Source events:
- tomorrow, The Great Goose Off returns, Creator Edition, with Rizel Scarlett, Alexander Hancock & Spencer Martin;
- also tomorrow, AI Agent Hack Night with MCP in Toronto! As part of Toronto Tech Week with W. Ian Douglas from Block, Lazar Nikolov from Sentry, & Shivam Ajmera from Temporal.
Links ⤵️
Check out the upcoming events calendar:
RSVP to Toronto MCP hack night: 

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Join the goose community - connect with developers, contribute to the project, and help shape the future of AI-powered development tools.
Toronto AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Sentry · Luma
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this toge...
If you want to run multiple AI agents in parallel, Solomon Hykes believes isolated environments are essential.
Otherwise, you're just babysitting bots.
Full video in the thread 🧵
Tomorrow, we're bringing top minds together to discuss MCP, AI agents, and open source:
- Dhanji R. Prasanna
- Nick Eayrs
- Bradley Axen
- Jackie Brosamer
- Xavier Armitage
- Mic Neale
...and so much more!
📍 Sydney · June 23
🔗 Save your spot:

AU AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Databricks · Luma
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this toge...

Do the people shaping Goose know how to drive it?
Alex and Spencer usually build Goose. Now they’re stepping into the prompt arena to build with it in under 10 minutes.
Who will guide Goose to the better build?
📆 June 24 at 10am PT/1pm ET
📺 linktr.ee/blockopensource


“Something like Goose had to exist.”
According to @solomonstre (co-founder of Docker and Dagger), Goose stands out in a sea of AI tools with no strings attached. It’s open source, decoupled, and built for developers.
🎥 Full video in the thread
What if every idea had its own sandbox?
Mic Neale’s using Dagger's Container Use MCP server with Goose to build isolated dev environments for safe testing, fast refactors, and side-by-side experiments.


Isolated Dev Environments in Goose with container-use
Never worry about breaking your development setup again with containerized, git-branch-isolated development environments powered by container-use
Goose is open source, local, and designed to speed up how you build.
Join us in Toronto, where W. Ian Douglas will be your guide to getting started.
📍 Toronto, Canada
📅 June 24 at 6pm ET
🔗

Toronto AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Sentry · Luma
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this toge...

We've heard you all loud and clear! Goose v1.0.29 introduces Desktop for Windows!!!! 🎉
This was definitely a community effort. Thank you all for the feedback, pull requests, and constant reminders 🤭
Enjoy! ❤️


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Choose to install the Desktop and/or CLI version of goose:
What happens when you connect an AI agent to a plotting engine?
In this Wild Goose Case, Senior Data Scientist, Da Lu, shows how he built a custom MCP server that lets Goose generate live data plots & launch a Streamlit UI — all from a prompt.
📺: https://linktr.ee/blockopensource 

We’re bringing the MCP magic to Sydney 🇦🇺
Think building an MCP server sounds complex? Phil Nash from DataStax is about to prove otherwise with a live low-code demo using Langflow.
📍 Sydney, Australia
📅 June 23, 2024
🔗 Save your spot:

AU AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Databricks · Luma
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this toge...

At Block, we've built 60+ MCP servers. We're sharing our playbook on what's worked, what hasn't, and how we're building smarter tools for AI agents


Block Engineering Blog
Block's Playbook for Designing MCP Servers
Block's best practices, common pitfalls, and actionable examples for designing high quality MCP servers.
Michael Shimeles doesn’t just build with MCP; he shows others how to use it.
He’s used his platform to introduce Model Context Protocol to over 19,000 developers, and now he’s sharing those insights live in Toronto.
📍 Toronto
📅 June 24
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Hosted in collaboration with Sentry


Goose is coming to Sydney 🇦🇺
And so is the person who built it.
Bradley Axen, creator of Goose, will join us at our MCP Hack Night to share how he designed a local, open source AI agent.
📍 Sydney, Australia
🕐 June 23, 2024
🔗 Save your spot:

AU AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Databricks · Luma
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this toge...

Goose just got smarter.
We now support an automatic multi-model flow that utilizes a lead model for planning and a faster model for execution. It's an easy way to save on cost without sacrificing quality.


Treating LLMs Like Tools in a Toolbox: A Multi-Model Approach to Smarter AI Agents
How Goose uses multiple LLMs within a single task, optimizing for speed, cost, and reliability in AI agent workflows
Next stop on the Goose Tour: Toronto 🇨🇦
Join us for an evening hosted in collaboration with Sentry on June 24th where we'll:
🧠 Explore Model Context Protocol (MCP)
🪿 Hack with Goose
🍕 Good food, great conversations guaranteed
RSVP:

Toronto AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Sentry · Luma
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this toge...

Tons of exciting events kicking off this week!
- Join us at RenderATL with talks from Angie Jones, Adewale Abati, and Ebony Louis 🍑
- The Great Goose Off with Rizel Scarlett returns🪿
- AI agent hack nights in 🇦🇺🇨🇦
- Monthly Contributor Spotlight: All-Star Edition ⭐
More info in the 💬
The latest edition of Block Open Sourcery is here!
In this month's newsletter, we cover:
🔧 Square MCP server launch
🌏 First international Goose meetup
✨ Monthly Contributor Spotlight
and more!

Goose Goes Global
From the first Goose meetup in NYC to the upcoming hack night in Sydney, the open source community experiences are landing across the globe! Thrill...