Managing Tools

Tools are specific functions within extensions that give Goose its capabilities. Learn to control and customize how these tools work for you.

📚 Documentation & Guides

Configure fine-grained permissions to control which tools Goose can use and when, ensuring secure and controlled automation.

Optimize tool selection with dynamic routing that loads only the tools you need, reducing context overhead and improving performance.

Customize how tool interactions are displayed, from detailed verbose output to clean concise summaries.

Enable tool calling for models that don't natively support it using an experimental local interpreter model setup.

A 101 introduction to AI agents, tool calling, and how tools work with LLMs to enable powerful automation.

Visual breakdown of MCP: How your AI agent, tools, and models work together, explained with diagrams and analogies.

Technical deep-dive into the challenges of tool calling with open-source models and the research behind toolshim solutions.