Goose and kimi-cli, fact by fact
| Fact | Goose | kimi-cli |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 55,064Verified 8 Oct 2026 | not tracked for kimi-cli |
| Newest commit | 7 Oct 20260 days old when we read itVerified 8 Oct 2026 | not tracked for kimi-cli |
| Contributors | 453Verified 8 Oct 2026 | not tracked for kimi-cli |
| License | Apache-2.0Verified 8 Oct 2026 | not tracked for kimi-cli |
| Latest stable release | v1.53.0published 2 Oct 2026Verified 8 Oct 2026 | not tracked for kimi-cli |
| Repository | aaif-goose/gooseRustVerified 8 Oct 2026 | not tracked for kimi-cli |
What our catalogue holds
These are curated rows, not readings. We state no difference between the two columns because we have not checked either of them.
| Catalogue field | Goose | kimi-cli |
|---|---|---|
| Category | CLI Tool | CLI Tool |
| Where it runs | Terminal | Terminal |
| Pricing string, uncheckedWrong on 43 of our 190 rows. Not a price of ours. | Open Source | Open Source |
| Vendor page | block.github.io | github.com |
What we know about Goose
goose is the only agent in this set governed by a foundation rather than a vendor, and it can borrow an existing Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini subscription over the Agent Client Protocol instead of an API key.
“goose is part of the [Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)](https://aaif.io/) at the Linux Foundation.”
Automate work that is not coding — research, writing, data analysis — on the same machine and the same agent, through the desktop app, the CLI or the API.
“goose is a general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine. Not just for code — use it for research, writing, automation, data analysis, or anything you need to get done.”
Wire the agent into tools you already run: goose connects to 70+ extensions over the Model Context Protocol.
“Connect to 70+ extensions via the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) open standard.”
Ship one configuration to a whole team: a custom distribution bundles the providers, extensions and branding before anybody installs it.
“[Custom Distributions](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/blob/main/CUSTOM_DISTROS.md) — build your own goose distro with preconfigured providers, extensions, and branding”
Model choice is not free: goose leans on tool calling, so a weak or local model degrades it, and the vendor names Claude 4 as the model it works best with.
“goose relies heavily on tool calling capabilities and currently works best with Claude 4 models.”
Two OpenAI reasoning models do not run at all, because they cannot call tools.
“o1-mini and o1-preview are not supported because goose uses tool calling.”
Unattended scheduling is broken in 1.45.0: headless runs die at the first tool call and a recipe's own goose_mode is ignored.
“Scheduler unusable for unattended recipes on 1.45.0: headless runs die at first tool call, recipe-level goose_mode is silently ignored, an interrupted run-now permanently wedges the job, and spawned sessions get no schedule_id”
A developer who wants the widest model catalogue in a terminal should pick OpenCode, which reaches 75+ providers from one config file.
“OpenCode uses the AI SDK and Models.dev to support 75+ LLM providers and it supports running local models.”
What Goose costs
goose charges nothing for itself; you pay whichever provider you configure, and it accepts a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription in place of an API key.
“Access GPT-5 Codex models optimized for code generation and understanding. Requires a ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscription.”
What this page does not answer
We have researched Goose and we have not researched kimi-cli. That means the judgments above answer for one tool and not for the other, and we publish no price for kimi-cli because we have not read its pricing page. Nothing on this page about kimi-cli is our opinion; there is not enough evidence yet for one.
Questions people ask
- Are Goose and kimi-cli still maintained?
- Goose committed to aaif-goose/goose (main) on 7 Oct 2026. kimi-cli has no repository we track. Both readings come from the default branch of each repository, on the date shown beside them.
- What does Goose cost?
- Goose: goose charges nothing for itself; you pay whichever provider you configure, and it accepts a ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription in place of an API key. kimi-cli: we have not read its pricing page, so we publish no price for it. Every figure here is quoted from the vendor's own page and linked beside the claim.
- Is Goose or kimi-cli open source?
- Goose's repository aaif-goose/goose reports the Apache-2.0 licence. We have not read a licence for kimi-cli. We read the licence GitHub reports for the repository, which is not the same question as whether the hosted product is free.
How we check this page
- Machine facts. Stars, contributors, the newest commit on the default branch, the licence GitHub reports and the latest stable release come from the GitHub API, and download counts from npm, PyPI, Homebrew and the VS Code Marketplace. Each value carries the day it was last confirmed, never the day this page was built. The line under each label is arithmetic on those two values.
- Judgments. Every claim about what a tool suits, what it is bad at and what it costs is quoted from a page we read, and that page is linked beside the claim. Where there is no link, we wrote no claim.
- Index status. Goose carries claims we read, quoted and linked; kimi-cli does not. So this page is offered to search engines.
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