Ebony Louis

So you’ve heard about Goose. Maybe you saw a livestream, someone on your team mentioned it, or you just stumbled into our corner of the internet while trying to automate your dev setup. Either way—love that for you.

Goose is a local, open source AI agent that can automate tasks, interact with your codebase, and connect to a growing ecosystem of tools. But before you hit install, here are four things you should know to get the most out of it.

We brought Goose to New York City and it was one for the books.

Over 100 people registered, plus 87 on the waitlist, and we had a packed room full of folks who were curious, thoughtful, and ready to dive in. Some were developers already exploring Goose and MCP, others were totally new to the world of AI agents. That’s the beauty of Goose, it’s for developers and non-developers.

The energy was there from the moment the event began - music, pizza, and authentic networking. We had lightning talks, a Goose-themed game, hands-on hacking, and yeah… a few Ebbs IPAs might’ve ended up in people’s backpacks by the end of the night.

You ever open a GitHub repo or blog post, read the first sentence, and immediately feel like you’ve stumbled into a PhD dissertation?

Yeah. Same.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) sounds complicated, but it’s really not. Think of this as your go to cheat sheet, no whitepapers, no academic jargon, just plain English and a few good visuals.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are everywhere right now. Last time I checked there were 3,000 and counting. Every day, a new one pops up, letting AI agents like Goose access files, query your Google Drive, search the web, and unlock all kinds of amazing integrations.

Remember that saying, "it’s not what you ask, but how you ask"?

When I first started working with Goose as an AI agent, I was convinced there had to be one ‘best' prompting style. I spent so much time trying to figure out which one was superior, but the more I used Goose, the more I realized that couldn't be further from the truth. There isn’t one right way to prompt AI, but there are better approaches depending on what your end goal is.

So, let’s go through which prompt style works best for your specific needs, and how you can use them to vibe code a little better with Goose.