Goose With MCP Servers

🚀 Connecting to an LLM with Goose Configuration

Run goose configure to set up the connection from Goose to an LLM.

Example output for Ollama (use host.docker.internal instead of localhost due to Docker networking):

Welcome to Goose! Let's help you configure a model provider.
You can always re-run this command to update your configuration.

┌   goose-configure 
│

◇  Which model provider would you like to use?
│  Ollama 
│

◇  Configuring Ollama requires setting OLLAMA_HOST. Please enter a value:
│  host.docker.internal
│

◇  Please enter the model name for this provider:
│  qwen2.5
│

◓  Checking your configuration……                                                                                                                                                                                                                   └  Configuration saved successfully

  Tip: Run 'goose configure' again to adjust your configuration or add extensions

📦 Automatic Installation of Goose

The Devcontainer includes automatic installation of Goose via postCreateCommand.

curl -fsSL https://github.com/block/goose/releases/download/stable/download_cli.sh | CONFIGURE=false bash

Dependencies

Goose requires libdbus, which has also been added to the Devcontainer.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libdbus-1-3

Adding a GitHub MCP Server to Goose

Add a GitHub personal access token via https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/.

node ➜ /workspaces/goose-with-mcp-servers (main) $ goose configure

This will update your existing configuration file.
  You can also edit it directly at /home/node/.config/goose/config.yaml

┌   goose-configure 
│

◇  What would you like to configure?
│  Add an extension 
│

◇  What type of extension would you like to add?
│  Command-line extension 
│

◇  What would you like to name this extension?
│  GitHub
│

◇  What command should be run?
│  npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-github
│

◇  Do you want to add an environment variable?
│  Yes 
│

◇  Name of the environment variable:
│  GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN
│

◇  Value of the environment variable:
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