Goose Goes Global

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From the first Goose meetup in NYC to the upcoming hack night in Sydney, the open source community experiences are landing across the globe! Thrilled to share major developments from the last month, including the Square MCP server, joining the Kotlin Foundation, the first international Goose meetup, and more. Let’s dive right in!

Latest from Block OSPO

You can now automate your business with natural language. The Square MCP server connects your AI assistant directly to Square, so you can do things like add menu items by uploading a photo, generate invoices or payment links, manage employee schedules, and more. Read our unique technique for building it here.

Join us on stage at SXSW London! Learn how SaaS companies can harness AI to drive growth, stay competitive and deliver smarter solutions with @maniksurtani ( Block ), Eleanor Lightbody ( Luminance ), Matt Weaver ( OpenAI ), and moderator Marine Boulot ( The Metaverse Society ).

We’re excited to announce that Block has officially joined the Kotlin Foundation! 🎉 This milestone highlights a special, shared history between our engineering teams and the Kotlin community.

Goose Meetups, Shore to Shore

After another sold-out hack night in San Francisco, Goose is now coming to Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺! Join us for an evening hosted in collaboration with Databricks on June 23rd where we'll:

🧠 Explore Model Context Protocol (MCP)
🪿 Hack with Goose
🍕 Good food, great conversations guaranteed

RSVP before it sells out!

Come See Us at RenderATL

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Block will be at RenderATL (Render Atlanta) 2025! Come back next week for our full schedule of talks from our team, including: Head of Developer Relations Angie Jones , Developer Advocate Ebony Louis , and Staff Developer Advocate Adewale Abati. Hope to see you there!

Monthly Contributor Spotlight

This month’s community spotlight shines bright on yet another incredible group of contributors who’ve helped improve Goose through code contributions, docs, and supporting other community members. Here's the top 5 for this month:

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Murf - GitHub Contributor
breezy.badger - Rising Star
Ben Walding - Community Champion
Gustavo Hoirisch - PR Superstar
Acheong8 - GitHub Contributor

Thank you so much to each of you for your contributions! As thanks, you receive an exclusive badge on Discord, plus $20 of free LLM credits! Don’t worry, we’ll reach out to you to make sure you get your rewards. Thank you so much for being part of the Block Open Source community, and for contributing to Goose!

In Case You Missed It

We always aim to make sure everyone across the world gets access to the latest learnings from Goose with blogs, demo videos and more. So if you can't join us at IRL meetups, don't worry! We got you.

Here are some top blogs for you to check out:

• @blackgirlbytes — I’ve got a million tabs open and just as many localhost ports running. Rizel writes how she uses AI to clean up the chaos. 🧹
• Tomasz Tchorz — Detection engineering stands at the forefront of cybersecurity, yet it’s often a tangled web of complexity. To stay ahead, we've embraced Goose and Panther MCP to allow the broader organization to contribute high-quality rules that are contextual to their area of expertise.
• @angiejones — Goose is LLM-agnostic, meaning you can plug in the model of your choice. However, not every LLM is suitable to work with agents. If you're considering which model to use with an agent, these 3 prompts can quickly give you a sense of the model's capabilities.
• @iandouglas — Goose has no hands, no eyes, and no spatial awareness, but it can drive a rover! Ian Douglas taught the rover to spin, blink colorful lights, and help me take over the world!
• @michaelneale — A couple of weeks back, Qwen 3 launched with a raft of capabilities and sizes. This model showed promise and even in very compact form, such as 8B parameters and 4bit quantization, was able to do tool calling successfully with goose.

For more those who love videos and listening to content in the background, here are some short videos and clips from the last month:

• @a-giuliano - The Square Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server allows you to use AI agents to interact with Square's APIs. In this video, we show you exactly how to set up the Square MCP server, and how to use it with Goose so you can start to automate your Square business.
• @a-giuliano - In this video, we explore the different permission modes available in Goose, an open-source AI agent designed to assist with engineering tasks. Understanding these modes is crucial for tailoring Goose's behavior to your workflow needs.
• @blackgirlbytes & W. Ian Douglas - Check out this clip from the Great Goose Off livestream, where we talk about vibe prompting, improving prompts with AI feedback, and the hilarious dilemma of being too polite to machines.

Upcoming Events

If you’d like to catch one of our streams live, you can subscribe to us on YouTube, or subscribe to our events calendar here. Here’s what’s coming up next:

• Wild Goose Case | Outsmart Outdated Docs — June 06, 2025 at 1pm ET - Code changes move fast. & sometimes docs fall behind. But what if your AI agent could write and update them for you? Join host @EbonyLouis this Friday to see how Software Engineer, Crystal Ji, built a workflow using Goose, to auto-generate and update docs all triggered by a PR.
• The Great Goose Off | Unscripted — June 10, 2025 at 1pm ET - @AaronGoldsmith is an infra engineer who built a team of AI agents—but can he prompt his way to frontend glory? Tune in as he tests different approaches to guide Goose to the ultimate build.
• The Great Goose Off | Salesforce Edition — June 24, 2025 at 1pm ET - They speak fluent Salesforce, but prompt engineering is a whole new language. Evelyn and Tristan go head-to-head in the Great Goose Off. Same task. Different prompts.Who will be crowned the ultimate Goose whisperer? Hosted by @blackgirlbytes!

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