🔥 Hot Repo: Goose Hit 40K After Replacing 4,000 Block Devs

Block's Goose AI agent hit 40K GitHub stars and shipped v1.30.0 with a GitHub Copilot provider, Gemma 4 local model support, and a new background daemon mode — the same tool Jack Dorsey cited when cutting 4,000 jobs at Block, now stewarded by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation alongside Anthropic's MCP.

By OMC Editorial on 2026-04-09

When Jack Dorsey cut 4,000 jobs at Block in February 2026 — eliminating nearly 40% of the company — he cited a single metric in his shareholder letter: engineers using Goose were shipping approximately 40% more code per person than six months prior. That memo made Goose one of the most scrutinized open-source tools in the industry. The repo has since crossed 40,000 GitHub stars, and on April 8 the project shipped v1.30.0 with a batch of new features. What is Goose Goose is a general-purpose AI agent that runs locally on your machine. Originally developed at Block the company behind Square, Cash App, and Afterpay, the project was open-sourced in early 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. It ships as a native desktop app macOS, Linux, Windows, a full CLI, and an embeddable API — all written in Rust for performance and portability. Unlike narrow coding assistants, Goose is designed to execute multi-step tasks autonomously: it reads files, runs shell commands, calls APIs, and iterates toward a goal without constant hand-holding. It connects to 15+ LLM providers — Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Ollama, Azure, AWS Bedrock, and more — and integrates with 70+ extensions via the Model Context Protocolhttps://modelcontextprotocol.io/ open standard. What Changed in v1.30.0 The April 8 release adds several provider integrations and new architecture capabilities: - GitHub Copilot via ACP — a new provider enables teams to route Goose through their existing GitHub Copilot subscriptions, removing the need for a separate API key - Gemini OAuth provider — first-class OAuth authentication for Google Gemini, replacing less secure API-key-only flows - Gemma 4 local model support — Goose can now use Google's Gemma 4 running entirely on-device - goose serve — a new subcommand runs Goose as a persistent background daemon, enabling headless automation workflows and CI integrations - Egress logging inspector — all outbound network calls from Goose can now be logged and inspec