The first events of the month are kicking off! ❤️ Here's what's coming up this week: - Office Hours with goose Devs with Mic Neale - Great Goose Off with Rizel Scarlett - #AIAgentHackNight with MCP ft. Goose, Vercel, Temporal, & Dagger Links below 👇 - Subscribe to the calendar: https://block.github.io/goose/community - RSVP to AI Agent Hack Night in Denver:

AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Goose, Vercel, Temporal, & Dagger · Luma

MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work. Let's explore this toge...

Goose is free. But the most performant LLMs aren’t. We didn’t want people paying out of pocket just to try Goose at meetups. So, Rizel Scarlett built a credit system using Open Router's provisioning API. https://block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/07/29/openrouter-unlocks-workshops

Been hearing “MCP” but still fuzzy on what it does? You’re not alone. Go beyond the hype with Anthony Shew from Vercel for a beginner-friendly intro to the Model Context Protocol. 📍 August 5 | Denver 🔗

AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Goose, Vercel, Temporal, & Dagger · Luma

MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work. Let's explore this toge...

What if your AI agent could read real GitHub docs—not hallucinate them? With the GitMCP extension Goose can: ✅ Pull live docs from any public repo ✅ Extract real setup + usage patterns ✅ Scaffold smarter, faster 📹: Full Tutorial: https://block.github.io/goose/docs/mcp/gitmcp-mcp

Come hang out Friday 10amPT/1pmET to see how Goose made an incredible "retro" terminal work tracker for productivity that scores your focus, productivity, and context switching! http://linktr.ee/blockopensource

Goose is coming to Denver 🎉 Join us for an evening hosted in collaboration with Dagger and @temporaltech.bsky.social on August 5th where we'll: 🧠 Explore Model Context Protocol (MCP) 🪿 Hack with Goose 🍕 Good food, great conversations guaranteed

AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Goose, Vercel, Temporal, & Dagger · Luma

MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work. Let's explore this toge...

June 2025 Community All-Stars ⭐ It's time to celebrate all contributors who’ve helped make goose better, because every single contribution is important! 🏆 Check it out: https://block.github.io/goose/community

Jordan is a Developer Relations Engineer at Block, and while he usually works on things behind the scenes... Join him live now as we add support for OpenRouter into Goose Mobile: 📺

🚀 The goose grant program is now open! We're funding $100K grants to accelerate open source agentic AI Looking for innovative ideas in: 🎥 Multi-modal interactions 🤖 Agent autonomy 🔃 Self-improving systems 🏠 Real-world automation ❓Other novel ideas https://block.github.io/goose/grants

Our engineers discovered USB barcode scanners were causing Android apps to freeze due to a garbage collection issue. Instead of just patching our own apps, we dug deep, found the root cause, and contributed the fix upstream to Android 16. The result? 40% improvement in our P90 latency + a fix that benefits the entire Android ecosystem. This is why we contribute to open source - when we make platforms better, everyone wins. 🚀

Block Engineering Blog

Ending Android USB Freezes

We investigated a main thread stall with perfetto and simpleperf, found that AOSP's USB stack can block garbage collection, and upstreamed a fix

They’re not developers. But they’re not afraid to lay down the law OR the logic. Ananya Joshi and MacKenzie Cummins are stepping into the Goose Off ring. Let’s see what happens when business brains meet agentic power. 📆 TODAY at 10am PT/ 1pm ET 📺 https://linktr.ee/blockopensource

🪿📱Introducing Goose Mobile An exciting new experimental project in the goose ecosystem! Goose Mobile is an open agent that runs directly on your Android device, designed to maximize automation of your everyday tasks.

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GitHub - aaif-goose/goose-mobile: website

website. Contribute to aaif-goose/goose-mobile development by creating an account on GitHub.

📺 This week on Block Open Source events: - Today: We're vibe coding with Austin JS - July 18th: Clippy Gets an Upgrade - July 21st: MCP Build Night with goose in Austin, TX - July 23rd: Building AlphaZero with Project goose in Sydney, AU

with goose, anyone with an idea can build it. we’re doubling down to make that even easier. goose now has a dedicated open source team. full autonomy. independently funded. we'd love the community to build with us. we're launching a grant program to fund impactful contributions. subscribe here

Contributor Grant Program: Interest Form

Introducing Community All-Stars ⭐ A very special update: ALL contributors who’ve helped improve goose, from other teams across Block to open source contributors, you are all spotlighted in the Community All-Stars program! Complete with a special homepage 💖 https://block.github.io/goose/community Every month, it's important to take a moment and recognize the team effort behind every release, update, and improvement to goose. So, in addition to the amazing top 5 Community Stars and Team Stars every month... 👀 Now EVERYONE who contributes will be part of the monthly leaderboard! 🏆 Because every single contribution is important. From suggesting new features to always supporting others, thank you so much for being part of the open source community!

🪿 Next up in the Great Goose Off... Can a manager really out-goose their own teammate? Watch Darron Johnson and Jon Ferm flex their localization skills in a vibe coding face-off. 📅 July 10 at 10AM ET/ 1PM ET 📺 http://linktr.ee/blockopensource

💥 Fifth edition is here! Grab your favorite beverage and take a break with this special recap-montage on how goose on Windows & Linux became a reality, the latest hack nights and where we're heading to next, plus all the inspiring community contributions in between that led to a brand new Community All-Stars program. Be sure to subscribe to get new editions direct to your inbox every month. ❤️

Opening Windows Worldwide

With exciting efforts expanding goose to more platforms, new community programs highlighting our all-stars, there’s lots of great news to cover. ...

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Opening Windows Worldwide · block/ospo · Discussion #148

With exciting efforts expanding goose to more platforms, new community programs highlighting our all-stars, there’s lots of great news to cover. ...

Vibe coding has certainly taken hold but often ends in a ton of refactoring. I came up with the idea of "vibe prompting" a few months back to improve the starting point, saving time and tokens/money. I made a Flight School video out of it, let me know what you think!

Poor fee estimates waste Bitcoin users' money, sometimes 10x more than necessary. We built Augur, a mempool-based fee estimator that cuts costs without compromising reliability. It's now open source. Used in production by Cash App. Available for everyone.

Block Engineering Blog

Augur: An Open Source Bitcoin Fee Estimation Library

Introducing Augur, an open-source Bitcoin fee estimation library that outperforms traditional estimators through mempool-based probabilistic modeling.

Today’s special: Goose à la Workflow. Had an amazing AI workflow? Good luck repeating it. Agentic workflows rarely behave the same way twice. Goose recipes let you lock in your exact setup so you can reuse it or share it anytime. 👨🏽‍🍳 Let’s cook!