Goose

An open-source AI agent you run yourself, as a desktop application or from the command line. It works against whichever model you point it at, hosted or local.

I went looking for an alternative after liking Google Antigravity and working out that it would cost more than I wanted to spend. Since the summer of 2026 I have been experimenting with Goose against local models served by my Exo cluster.

Official website

goose-docs.ai

Age

2 years (since 2024)

Experience highlights

• Drive it with local models from my Exo cluster, so the work and the data stay on my own hardware.
• Open source and indifferent to which model it talks to, which is what sent me here from a hosted platform I would have had to keep paying for.