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[Goose] Goose APP UPDATE BUG

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:01:14 +0000

Describe the bug 💡 Before filing, please check common issues: https://goose-docs.ai/docs/troubleshooting 📦 To help us debug faster, attach your diagnostics zip if possible. 👉 How to capture it…

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[Goose] FYI: 1 public goose tool-call failure case packaged as a free regression test

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:26:23 +0000

I put together a small open dataset of real coding-agent tool-call failures, built from public GitHub issues: https://github.com/faddacake/agent-failure-evals (v0.1). 1 of the 25 cases comes from an issue in this repo. I'm sharing it in…

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[Goose] [Bug] goose doctor panics in sqlx-sqlite row.rs after upgrading 1.54.0 -> 1.55.0 (regression of #8719)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:29:27 +0000

Describe the bug After upgrading from 1.54.0 to 1.55.0, goose doctor panics immediately in a background sqlx worker thread: Exit code: 1. This looks like a regression of #8719 (fix: avoid sqlite session creation panic on legacy dbs, closed…

Workaround (quoted from issue body): Roll back to 1.54.0, which works against the same database:

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[Goose] Add harness-level progressive MCP tool discovery

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:52:05 +0000

Add harness-level progressive tool discovery so Goose can keep most MCP tool schemas out of the model context until they are relevant. A small always-visible discovery tool could search across configured MCP servers using server/tool…

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[Goose] Desktop (Windows, 1.53.0): turn-final assistant messages ([thinking + text], no tool call) missing from chat view, while fully stored and re-played by the server

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:40:55 +0000

Desktop (Windows, 1.53.0): turn-final assistant messages ([thinking + text], no tool call) missing from chat view, while fully stored and re-played by the server Goose Desktop 1.53.0, Windows 11 Pro; provider ollamacloud Models…

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[Goose] Stop and tool timeouts no longer cancel stdio MCP tool calls on 2026-07-28 servers (regression since v1.48.0)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:44:52 +0000

Describe the bug Since v1.48.0, goose doesn't send notifications/cancelled when a tool call to a stdio MCP server on protocol 2026-07-28 is stopped (Stop in the desktop, or ACP session/cancel) or hits the extension timeout. goose reports…

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[Goose] Image paths like `C:\Users\me\shot.png` are no longer attached on Windows (regression since v1.39.0)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:32:57 +0000

Describe the bug Since v1.39.0, goose no longer attaches an image when a message references it by a Windows path such as C:\Users\me\Pictures\shot.png (or C:/Users/me/Pictures/shot.png). The request sent to the provider only contains the…

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[Goose] GDK: exhausted empty-response retries restart indefinitely

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:27:18 +0000

Describe the bug A GDK state machine using InferenceRunner can keep calling the provider indefinitely when the provider returns empty responses. The runner makes an initial attempt and three retries, then stores a hidden fallback message…

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[Goose] Support OAuth 2.0 / OIDC JWT authentication across model providers (LiteLLM, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:08:38 +0000

What problem would this solve? In many enterprise and team environments, access to LLM providers—whether through unified gateways like LiteLLM Proxy, corporate API gateways (Kong, Envoy, Apigee), or direct enterprise endpoints for OpenAI…

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[Goose] Support OAuth 2.0 / OIDC JWT authentication in LiteLLM provider

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:24:33 +0000

What problem would this solve? Enterprise deployments of LiteLLM proxy often enforce OAuth 2.0 / OIDC JWT authentication (enablejwtauth: true) backed by an identity provider (Keycloak, Okta, Entra ID / Azure AD, Auth0, Dex) rather than…

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[Goose] Document the Windows installer for goose Desktop

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:39:03 +0000

What problem would this solve? PR #12869 (closes #11987) added a signed, per-user NSIS installer (Goose-win32-x64-setup.exe) for goose Desktop on Windows. From the next release it will be published alongside the existing ZIP, but the…

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[Goose] OAuth succeeds, then the extension fails, when the token exceeds Windows Credential Manager's 2560-char limit

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:49:26 +0000

Describe the bug: On Windows, a remote MCP extension fails to load after a successful authorization. The browser shows Goose's own "Authorization Success" page, then the extension errors. The real cause is that saving the credential fails…

Workaround (quoted from issue body): Additional context: GOOSE_DISABLE_KEYRING=1 is a complete workaround, which confirms the diagnosis.

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[Goose] Expose goose context token so user can select it manually if auto set tokens size limit is invalid

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:02:24 +0000

What problem would this solve? This will prevent context of the model from being set incorrectly and allow user to correct the model context size. What would a good outcome look like? when clicking on the model context token, user can…

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[Goose] desktop: crash on startup when no theme setting is saved ("Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'variant'")

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:21:16 +0000

Describe the bug The Goose desktop app shows a "Honk! An error occurred" screen with the message: This crashes on startup for users who have never saved a theme preference (i.e., getSetting('theme') returns undefined). The undefined value…

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[Goose] Invalid cron updates remove the existing schedule timer, and an identical retry reports success

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:46:02 +0000

Updating an existing schedule with an invalid cron expression disables its timer even though the update returns an error. The schedule remains in the in-memory job list, but its previous cron expression has already been replaced and its…

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[Goose] Define an OS sandbox boundary for shell and tool subprocesses

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:41:38 +0000

What problem would this solve? goose can already ask before a tool runs (approve, smartapprove) and can deny a tool entirely. That is a permission policy, not a sandbox. Once a command, MCP server, or extension subprocess is allowed, it…

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[Goose] Render A2UI embedded resources from MCP tool results in goose desktop

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:30:18 +0000

Proposal: goose doesn't support A2UI today. This issue proposes adding it to goose desktop, starting with rendering A2UI surfaces returned by MCP servers. The first version would be off by default and limited to the A2UI basic catalog…

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[Goose] Possible v1.52.0 regression: Goose Desktop loses chat history after restart

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:48:04 +0000

A long-running Goose Desktop conversation disappeared from Goose history after upgrading from v1.51.0 to v1.52.0 and subsequently restarting the application. The recurring user-visible behavior was first observed after the v1.51.0 →…

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[Goose] Define private-network access policy for MCP Apps

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:53:50 +0000

What problem would this solve? MCP Apps can declare CSP destinations for network connections, resources, frames, and base URIs. Goose currently accepts loopback IPs, localhost, and other IP literals in those declarations while serving app…

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[Goose] Define origin isolation for MCP App guest content

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:14:25 +0000

What problem would this solve? MCP App guest content is served from a stable loopback web origin. Without host-enforced origin isolation, separately supplied apps can share browser origin state and may interact with host cookies or storage…

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[Goose] ACP: MCP extension startup failures never reach the ACP client — session/new succeeds, no session/update, warning only in goose's log file

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:30:20 +0000

When an MCP server passed in ACP session/new fails to start, the ACP client is never told. The session/new response is a normal success, no session/update is sent, and nothing appears on stdout or stderr. The host has no way to learn that…

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[Goose] Define server identity requirements for externally managed local backends

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:24:14 +0000

What problem would this solve? Desktop supports externally managed backends through settings and environment configuration, including local development services. Users and backend authors need a clear contract for how the client…

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[Goose] Make extension state and MCP server lifecycle consistent

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:15:24 +0000

What problem would this solve? The backend currently treats the extensions selected for a session and the MCP clients running for them as one mutable ExtensionManager. The same component resolves configuration and secrets, starts…

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[Goose] Support SEP-2640 Skills Extension (skills over MCP) as host

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:17:52 +0000

What problem would this solve? MCP has no standard way to ship workflow instructions alongside the tools they describe. Server instructions are size-bounded, so complex workflows do not fit. Today a server and the skill that teaches how to…

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[Goose] MCP OAuth re-authorizes on every new session after transient refresh failures or refresh rotation races

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:46:57 +0000

Describe the bug MCP servers that authenticate via OAuth demand a fresh interactive browser authorization on (nearly) every new goose session, even though valid credentials were previously stored. Once it starts happening, the stored…

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[Goose] feat(tasks): unified task registry + tasks platform extension (background processes, timers, wait_for wake-ups)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:02:56 +0000

Long-running work is a first-class citizen in agent-driven development — builds, test suites, dev servers, watchers, interactive programs (debuggers, REPLs), and scheduled follow-ups. Today goose has no first-class way to run that work in…

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[Goose] OAuth authorization URL is incorrect when using Keycloak with pre-registered OAuth client

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:36:32 +0000

Describe the bug I'm testing the pre-registered OAuth client support for streamablehttp extensions introduced in Goose v1.47.0. PR #11182: https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/pull/11182 Commit: ea6dbf30b8e53ac5a623320eab1b77f61b604166 My…

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[Goose] ACP desktop drops CallToolResult._meta before MCP App notification

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:44:38 +0000

Describe the bug Goose Desktop's ACP chat path drops the MCP server's non-routing CallToolResult.meta before delivering ui/notifications/tool-result to an MCP App. The app receives content and structuredContent, but meta is reconstructed…

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[Goose] [Bug / OAuth]: Goose Desktop v1.45.0: MCP Server that use query parameters fails at connection time in with rmcp "unexpected server response" error

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:48:42 +0000

Describe the bug Cannot connect to the Datadog MCP server via Oauth Expected behavior When connecting to the Datadog MCP server ( https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp?toolsets=core with a custom query string parameter to…

Workaround (quoted from issue body): Downgrading to `1.44.0` restores connectivity. https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/releases#release-v1.44.0

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[Goose] OAuth credentials for streamable HTTP extensions erased by concurrent session starts — endless re-auth loop

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:30:05 +0000

Stored OAuth credentials for a streamable HTTP extension can be erased by Goose itself when multiple sessions start concurrently, producing an endless re-authentication loop: the user completes the vendor's browser auth, and within…

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[Goose] Support MCP's server.json and mcp.json import

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:14:48 +0000

goose has its own repository for MCP servers but given that there is an MCP server for everything now, this concept is outdated. goose has deeplinks to install remote MCP servers but uses its own format for that. Meanwhile the world has…

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[Goose] Allow agents to register MCP extensions dynamically at runtime

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:52:46 +0000

Please explain the motivation behind the feature request. Identity/credential brokers (e.g. Warden, and similar projects) sit between agents and external services. At session start, the agent calls the broker's discovery endpoint and gets…

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