Contributing to Goose, an open source AI agent

10 Dec 2025

Project

Goose - A local, extensible, open source AI agent that automates engineering tasks.

Overview

I contributed to Goose, a production-grade AI agent written primarily in Rust. I picked up Rust in practice while contributing. Goose is not only an AI agent but also a Rust-based project that supports building and coding with AI assistance. By using AI agents as a pair programmer, I was able to learn the codebase and contribute meaningful changes to a complex system.

Contributions

I submitted multiple pull requests to Goose, all of which were reviewed and merged.

Notable contributions:

  • macOS keychain infinite prompt loop fix (#6620) – Added in-memory cache to eliminate repeated keychain prompts
  • MCP hermit cleanup path expansion (#5953) – Fixed path resolution issues
  • Graceful keyring failure fallback (#5808) – Improved CLI error handling
  • Unified style checks (#5650) – Added a check-everything command for consistent code quality
  • Session management fixes (#5644) – Prevented repeated 404 errors for deleted sessions
  • Context menu fixes (#5616) – Restored standard right-click menu behavior
  • JSON output format support (#5525) – Added the --output-format json flag to goose run
  • Husky prepare script update (#5522) – Updated the project to Husky v9 format

My contributions ranged from CLI improvements and session management to style enforcement. Some work also involved TypeScript and React for frontend and API-related issues.

Recognition

  • Community Star (Top 5 Contributors)
  • 2nd place on the Monthly Contributor Leaderboard (November 2025)