Saving Recipes

This guide covers storing, organizing, and finding Goose recipes when you need to access them again later.

Desktop UI vs CLI

• Goose Desktop has a visual Recipe Library for browsing and managing saved recipes
• Goose CLI stores recipes as files that you find using file paths or environment variables

Understanding Recipe Storage

Before saving recipes, it's important to understand where they can be stored and how this affects their availability.

Recipe Storage Locations

Type	Location	Availability	Best For
Global	~/.config/goose/recipes/	All projects and sessions	Personal workflows, general-purpose recipes
Local	YOUR_WORKING_DIRECTORY/.goose/recipes/	Only when working in that project	Project-specific workflows, team recipes

Choose Global Storage When:

• You want the recipe available across all projects
• It's a personal workflow or general-purpose recipe
• You're the primary user of the recipe

Choose Local Storage When:

• The recipe is specific to a particular project
• You're working with a team and want to share the recipe
• The recipe depends on project-specific files or configurations

Storing Recipes

Goose Desktop

Save New Recipe:

1. To create a recipe from your chat session, see: Create Recipe
2. Once in the Recipe Editor, click Save Recipe to save it to your Recipe Library

Save Modified Recipe:

If you're already using a recipe and want to save a modified version:

1. Click the gear icon ⚙️ in the top right corner
2. Click Save recipe
3. Enter a name for the recipe
4. Choose to save globally or locally to your current project
5. Click Save Recipe

Goose CLI

When you create a recipe, it gets saved to:

• Your working directory by default: ./recipe.yaml
• Any path you specify: /recipe /path/to/my-recipe.yaml
• Local project recipes: /recipe .goose/recipes/my-recipe.yaml

Finding Your Recipes

Goose Desktop

Access Recipe Library:

1. Click the gear icon ⚙️ in the top right corner
2. Click Recipe Library
3. Browse your saved recipes in a list view
4. Each recipe shows its title, description, and whether it's global or local

Goose CLI

To find and configure your saved recipes:

Browse recipe directories:

# List recipes in default global location
ls ~/.config/goose/recipes/

# List recipes in current project
ls .goose/recipes/

# Search for all recipe files
find . -name "*.md" -path "*/recipes/*"

tip

Set up custom recipe paths to organize recipes in specific directories or access recipes from a shared GitHub repository.

Using Saved Recipes

Goose Desktop

1. Click the gear icon ⚙️ in the top right corner
2. Click Recipe Library
3. Find your recipe in the Recipe Library
4. Choose one of the following:
   • Click Use Recipe to run it immediately
   • Click Preview to see details first, then click Load Recipe to run it

Goose CLI

Once you've located your recipe file, run the recipe.