Goose 1.58 adds a context viewer and three providers
Updated Goose
Summary
Goose 1.58.0 shows what fills the context window, adds Lemonade, AIHubMix and RouterPlex, and 1.58.1 patches compaction and Databricks OAuth.
- Tool
- Goose
- Category
- Coding agents
- Date
- Pricing
- Not stated in the sources we cited.
Goose released 1.58.0 on November 9, 2026 and the 1.58.1 patch a few hours later. Install 1.58.1: it fixes a compaction prompt that a Claude model refused and refreshes Databricks OAuth tokens before they expire.
See what is filling the context
A new context window report and viewer shows what a session is spending its context on. An opt-in context relevance operation is also available. Together they help when long sessions start compacting or losing track of earlier work. Manual compaction that fails over ACP now reports an error instead of looking successful.
More providers, fewer provider surprises
Lemonade, AIHubMix and RouterPlex join as providers. Several existing providers get fixes:
- OpenRouter resolves suffixes like
:freeand:nitroto the base model and classifies context-length errors as overflow. - OpenAI Responses reasoning is replayed across tool turns.
- Rate-limited requests honor
Retry-Afterin more paths. - Bedrock routes bare OpenAI GPT IDs correctly and falls back when a model lacks document blocks.
- LiteLLM vision support is read from
/model/info.
Changes for integrators
Scheduled runs now use the recipe's own settings, which fixes jobs that ignored them. Internally, Agent and AgentManager are replaced by one state-machine service per process, and ACP client-delegated developer tools are removed. If you embed Goose through ACP and relied on those tools, test before upgrading. The computer controller no longer tells the model a screenshot tool exists.
The repository now lives under the aaif-goose organization on GitHub. We did not benchmark this release.
See the Goose hub, how it compares in Goose vs Cline, and where it fits among OpenHands alternatives.
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Questions
What is Goose?
Goose is an open-source AI agent maintained in the block/goose repository. GitHub's description is an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions. The LICENSE file is Apache-2.0, copyright 2024 Block, Inc.
What are Goose alternatives?
OpenCode, Cline, and Aider are the coding-agent alternatives linked here.
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