Opening Windows Worldwide

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With exciting efforts expanding goose to more platforms, new community programs highlighting our all-stars, there’s lots of great news to cover. Take a seat and let’s dive into all that happened at Block Open Source this past month.

Goose is now available on Windows and Linux!

We’ve heard the community loud and clear: this month introduces Goose Desktop for Windows and Linux!!!! 🎉 Enjoy the latest update now!

Thank you so much to @Kvadratni for leading the charge on Windows, and to @The-Best-Codes for Linux. Special shout outs to @evelyn-fyi, and @finn-block for your amazing contributions to this. This was truly a community effort and labor of love from contributors outside the goose team. ♥️

Use Snowflake Models with goose

Snowflake’s Cortex completion models can now be used with goose, making the Snowflake MCP server for Cortex Search and Cortex Analyst a powerful combination. Read the blog to get started!

AI Agent Hack Night in Sydney & Toronto

Bringing developers together to build with goose and explore MCPs has been amazing. And being able to go across the globe for the first time? Extra amazing! Thank you to everyone who came to #AIAgentHackNight in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 and Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦, and for sharing your experiences with us. Whether it’s to the team or in our own post, we love hosting these events for you.

Where do you want to see an AI Agent Hack Night next? 👀

RenderATL 2025 Recap

From empowering attendees to vibe code with AI agents to sharing drinks at the Square Block Party, this year’s RenderATL was incredible. Filled with amazing conversation and knowledge-sharing, it was great seeing you all enjoy the vibe coding workshops hosted by @angiejones, @EbonyLouis, and @acekyd while having fun as you explored Goose and MCPs. Thank you all for reaching max capacity at our workshops—excited to come back next year!

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Join Us at WeAreDevelopers 2025

Block will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025 in Berlin this week! It’s WeAreDevs’ 10-year anniversary, and we will be at booth #2_37. Come explore our first ever Vibe Coding Lab, learn from workshops, lightning talks and more. Here is our full list of programming*:

Stage Talks & Workshops:

• MCP Mashups: How AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web with @angiejones
• Engineering Productivity: Cutting Through the AI Noise with Jackie Brosamer
• Workshop: Vibe Coding with Goose and MCP with @angiejones
• From A2A to MCP: How AI’s Brains are Connecting to Arms and Legs with @baxen

Lightning Talks:

• Is That You, J.A.R.V.I.S? with @acekyd
• Building an MCP Server with @EbonyLouis
• There’s A Recipe for That with @DOsinga
• API Parfait: Spooning Through Square’s Sweet MCP Layers with @mootrichard
• Show Me Something Real: Vibing in Prod with @zenmasterjobo
• Vibe Coding starts with Vibe Prompting with @iandouglas

It’s going to be a jam-packed time, don’t miss out! We hope to see you there.

(*schedule will be updated for any changes)

Introducing Community All-Stars

This month brings a special spotlight: All contributors who’ve helped improve goose from all other teams across Block to amazing open source contributors, are all spotlighted in the Community All-Stars program! ⭐ Every month all of you will be featured on the goose docs site and in our new monthly leaderboard. Let’s check out our All-Stars from last month!

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From suggesting new features to always supporting others in the community, thank you so much for being part of the open source community! As thanks, you receive an exclusive badge on Discord, plus free LLM credits! We’ll be sure to reach out and make sure you get your rewards.

In Case You Missed It

Here’s the latest learnings from on goose and Block Open Source in blogs, demo videos and more. So if you can't join us at IRL meetups, don't worry! We got you.

Here are top blogs for you to check out:

• Isolated Dev Environments in Goose with container-use - Never worry about breaking your development setup again with containerized, git-branch-isolated development environments powered by container-use
• Treating LLMs Like Tools in a Toolbox: A Multi-Model Approach to Smarter AI Agents - How Goose uses multiple LLMs within a single task, optimizing for speed, cost, and reliability in AI agent workflows
• Block’s Playbook for Designing MCP Servers - Lessons from scaling 60+ MCP servers: Why workflow-first design trumps traditional API approaches
• Democratizing Detection Engineering at Block: Taking Flight with Goose and Panther MCP - A comprehensive overview of how Block leverages Goose and Panther MCP to democratize and accelerate security detection engineering.
• Why I Used Goose to Build a Chaotic Emotion Detection App - The joys of experimenting with computer vision using Goose, an MCP host

For video watchers and listeners, here are some short videos and clips from the last month:

• In this video, Solomon Hykes and Andrea Luzzardi , the creators of Docker and now co-founders of Dagger, walk through how their new container-use MCP server helps AI agents like Goose run in safe, isolated environments.
• Do the people shaping Goose know how to drive it? @alexhancock and @spencrmartin usually build Goose. Now they’re stepping into the prompt arena to build with it in under 10 minutes. Who will guide Goose to the better build?
• @AaronGoldsmith scripts reliable systems, @agiuliano-square scripts compelling stories, watch them both go head-to-head in the Great Goose Off.

Upcoming Events

If you’d like to catch one of our streams live, you can subscribe to us on YouTube, or check out our events calendar here. Here’s what’s coming up next:

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• The Great Goose Off — July 7th, 2025 at 1pm ET - It's goose vs. goose 🪿 Contestants go head-to-head in The Great Goose-Off! 🥊They’ll have the same task, the same time limit, but different prompts, different MCP servers, and different strategies. Join us to see who can guide Goose to the best build.
• Turning AI Prompts into Scheduled Workflows with Goose — July 10th, 2025 at 2:30PM ET - We’ll dive into how Goose uses Temporal's scheduling capabilities to run automated tasks on your local machine. You'll see how to transform one-off AI operations into reliable, scheduled workflows using Goose's recipe system.

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