Happy Friday! It's time to see what's up next in goose programming.

Last time we turned our MCP UI server into an MCP app. Today we’re plugging that same app into ChatGPT. Join us at 1PM ET | 10 AM PT 📺: https://linktr.ee/goose_oss

From suggesting new features to helping troubleshoot issues, it's time to see who are the top goose community stars for January 2026!

We teamed up with @MCPJams to share everything we learned building MCP Apps. Here's some tips that would've saved us hours: → Adapt to host themes → Control what the model sees → Handle loading states properly → Keep the model in sync → Restrict who can trigger tools Link to blog in the thread 👇

🚀 Goose Flight Log is ready for takeoff! Discover everything the team tackled together in open source with the community, from contributions, to building new features and more. Subscribe for new editions in your inbox every month. ❤️

Skill issue? We fixed that. goose now has a skill registry where you can: ✅ share skills you've built ✅ discover skills from the community ✅ easily plug them into your agent add yours → https://block.github.io/goose/skills/

Wondering what Beads is or why engineers keep talking about it? It promises easier parallel work, memory, task coordination. Join Rizel live as she puts the hype to the test, using goose with Beads and Ghostty to ship multiple features in parallel. 📆 Jan 29 at 1pm ET 📺 https://linktr.ee/goose_oss

Forgot what you were working on? goose remembers. With Beads, goose can track your tasks and dependencies across sessions so you can pick up right where you left off. Get started with this tutorial ⬇️ https://block.github.io/goose/docs/mcp/beads-mcp

Learn how to migrate your MCP-UI server to an MCP App. Our Developer Advocate, Ebony Louis, walks through the real process, code changes, and why this matters for portability across hosts. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2026/01/22/mcp-ui-to-mcp-apps

Can you spot the difference between MCP-UI and MCP Apps? Trick question: the UI looks the same. The architecture is what changes. Quick walkthrough of what MCP Apps unlock and why it actually matters. Full video: https://youtu.be/QcojQ3Fwqsw

You can use @Remotion Skills to create videos from a prompt. Here's how to set it up in goose: 1. Run npx skills add remotion-dev/skills 2. Enable the Skills extension in goose settings 3. Prompt

Happy Friday everyone! It's time to check out what's coming up next week.

Join Ebony Louis this Thursday (1/22) for a live walkthrough of MCP Apps. Learn what they are, how they differ from MCP-UI, and how to turn an MCP-UI server into an MCP App. 📆 Jan 22 · 10am PT / 1pm ET 📺 https://linktr.ee/goose_oss

MCP sampling, explained visually. See the difference between tools that just return data vs. tools that actively participate in reasoning. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2026/01/15/why-tool-descriptions-arent-enough/

If Ralph Wiggum Loop keeps showing up on your feed, this video breaks down what it actually is and the problem it’s trying to solve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS_naHhVeOo

Happy Friday 🪿 It's time to see what events are coming up next! Spoiler alert: get ready for incredible (virtual) workshops! 🧵

Open source maintenance is a marathon. So, we put our own agent to work on its own backlog by embedding goose into a GitHub Action to autonomously fix issues. Learn how this self-healing workflow keeps our backlog moving. ⬇️ https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/12/28/goose-maintains-goose/

Ralph Wiggum loops have been all the rage! Our Developer Advocate, Rizel Scarlet, is going live in 1 hour to walk through it all. Update: The MCP-UI to MCP App stream has been rescheduled to Thurs, Jan 22 at 1:00 PM ET. Thanks for your flexibility, hope you can join both!

Ralph Wiggum loop: real or gimmick? You can decide after you see it run. Join Rizel as she executes the Ralph Loop she engineered for goose. Built to avoid context bloat and powered by a multi-model worker/reviewer setup. 📆 Jan 15, 2025 at 10am PT / 1pm ET (TODAY) 📺 https://linktr.ee/goose_oss

We brought the Ralph Wiggum loop to goose with a multi-model approach where one model does the work and a second model reviews it. Tutorial 👇 https://block.github.io/goose/docs/tutorials/ralph-loop

First it was MCP-UI ..... now its MCP Apps 👀 Join me as we explore MCP Apps, what they are, how they differ from MCP-UI, and how to turn an existing MCP-UI server into a proper MCP App. Bonus: if time allows, we’ll try making it compatible with ChatGPT apps.

It's Friday~ You know what that means...the team is back from the holidays, and have upcoming events you don't want to miss!🪿 (links in the replies)

Is the real AI skill gap coding or orchestration? This short shows MCP sampling in action, using the Council of Mine MCP server as an example. One question → nine LLM conversations → one synthesized conclusion. Do you agree with the council’s conclusion?

Ever felt like your agent isn’t behaving the way you expect? Join us live as we show you how to leverage Skills and goose Recipes to shape agent behavior beyond prompting. 📆 Jan 8 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET 📺 linktr.ee/goose_oss

Want to build your first MCP App? MCP Apps let your AI agent return interactive UIs. We just published a tutorial to help you build your first UI-driven agent workflow. https://block.github.io/goose/docs/tutorials/building-mcp-apps

Text responses are cute, but can your agent respond with interfaces? goose can 💅 MCP Apps support is live, aligned with the emerging MCP spec. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2026/01/06/mcp-apps

To drive adoption for AI Agents we need to make usage safer for everyone. Learn how Block's InfoSec team is tackling one of the 'unsolved' problems in the space ⬇️ https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2026/01/05/agentic-guardrails-and-controls

Do agents have the ability to learn your taste? This post explores how @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social used Agent Skills to encode design preferences and where human judgment still mattered most. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2026/01/04/how-i-taught-my-agent-my-design-taste

Open source maintenance is a marathon. So, we put our own agent to work on its own backlog by embedding goose into a GitHub Action to autonomously fix issues. Learn how this self-healing workflow keeps our backlog moving. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/12/28/goose-maintains-goose

It's the final day of the Advent of AI! To close things out, we’re building a Wishlist MCP server that renders a live UI inside Goose using MCP-UI. Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the Advent of AI this year! We hope you had as much fun as we did.

For the Advent of AI day 16 challenge, use a .goosehints file and a planning document to guide development!

Advent of AI from @opensource.block.xyz Day 15: Goose Sub-recipes dev.to/nickytonline... #adventofai #goose #automation #ai

Code Mode 🤝 MCP These are getting compared a lot lately, and they shouldn’t be. We wrote this post to clear up the confusion, and how it works within goose 👇 https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/12/21/code-mode-doesnt-replace-mcp

🎄 Day 15 of Advent of AI! Learn how to build a social media automation system using subrecipes!

It's Friday~ You know what that means...As much of the team takes a holiday break, we wanted to thank you for supporting goose, and share the latest content to check out in the meantime🪿💙 (links in the replies)

Advent of AI day 13 a day late. OK @opensource.block.xyz's terminal integration makes sense to me now. Initially I was like the start stop of asking questions made no sense, but I get it now. dev.to/nickytonline...

Advent of AI Day 14 - @opensource.block.xyz got mad skills! dev.to/nickytonline... #adventofai #goose #agentskills

Prompts don’t scale context. Agent Skills do. For Day 14 of Advent of AI, we're teaching goose new skills.

Tired: copy-pasting context into AI tools. Wired: pinging `@goose` from anywhere in your terminal and it already has context. That's the Day 13 solution for Advent of AI.

We just shipped code mode, so goose can generate and execute code against MCP tools instead of loading every schema into context. This means fewer tokens, better control, and more scalable workflows. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/12/15/code-mode-mcp

Fun fact: goose supports MCP sampling. This means MCP servers can delegate repeated AI decisions back to the client, without embedding or running their own models. Day 12 of Advent of AI shows it in action.

Today's @opensource.block.xyz advent of AI task was quite interesting! I previously tried to vibe code together a quick app that let me have multiple LLMs think separately, with a final orchestrator putting the pieces together and coming up with a response, but this was much easier in Goose! 🪿

POV: You delegate work to subagents and they actually deliver. Day 11's solution for Advent of AI is live. It's not too late to join the fun. Link in the 🧵

If (you want smarter AI workflows) { try this }! For Day 10's Advent of AI challenge, we learned how to add conditionals statements to our reusable workflows. Check out today's solution video to see how we helped Elena dynamically generate festival posters using if/then logic.

Here's my @opensource.block.xyz Day #10! Made a custom recipe that: → Takes in different paramaters for context for the custom event poster → Creates the poster in a single HTML file → Uses shot-scraper CLI to produce a PNG version of the poster as well. Look at this demo 👀 (screenshot below)

SPOILER : Advent of AI Day 9 Solution is here! In this challenge, we helped Maya create a fully automated gift tag generator! Watch the Day 9's solution & jump into Day 10's challenge!

It's Friday~ You know what that means...it's time to see what goose events are coming up next ahead of the holidays 🪿 (links to events below)

Advent of AI 2025 from @opensource.block.xyz day 9 is in the books! Building a Gift Tag Generator with Goose Recipes dev.to/nickytonline...

. @opensource.block.xyz advent of AI day 9! I made this custom Recipe which takes in attributes, such as recipient name, gift description, language, and more to make custom Christmas gift tags in mass! i even made my own custom one (first pic!) ❄️👀 exportable and printable easily, too!

As developers, we commit early and often to create checkpoints for safe rollbacks and clean collaboration, so why not enforce the same discipline on our agents? Here’s @blackgirlbytes’ guide to keeping agent changes clean: https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/12/10/stop-ai-agent-unwanted-changes